Poor instructions but great sound | Grundig G6 Aviator AM/FM, aircraft band and Shortwave Radio, Black

Good Fun Radio, but you can find cheaper.... | Grundig G6 Aviator AM/FM, aircraft band and Shortwave Radio, Black

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	• Grundig G6 Aviator AM/FM, aircraft band and Shortwave Radio, Black Eton Eton average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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Preliminary Look See

Another reviewer went into some absolutely wonderful details. I have little such knowledge; however, this is one awesome little radio. As shipped, the AM and FM bands are almost Bose quality without the super base. I can pickup every station in our area and then some quite a distance from here on the AM and FM dial.

Unfortunately, I am not in a position to discuss the shortwave band. Grundig does not include an antenna for that band. It does not make sense to me why they did not. To me it would appear that for such a well made anc almost complete product an antenna would be shipped with it. It is like ordering sattelite TV service and then when all has been complete you are told "oh by the way, you need to buy and install a dish antenna." Additionally, included in the package is a set of earbud speakers. That's great. But, if you wanted to store them in the well made carrying case, you would have no room for such storage. A minor modification in the pouch could accomodate the buds and other small pieces. I found it strange that the instructions were larger in size than the pouch and the unit. This voids your ability to carry the instructions with you unless you have an additional pouch of a different size to carry them.

Please keep in mind that this is a preliminary look see at the unit. So far this is a unit that I would recommend your buying even with the short commings mentioned above. After I buy an antenna and can evaluate the shortwave and get used to the multitude of bells and whistles, I will finish this.

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Poor instructions but great sound

Setting up the radio is a bit frustrating. There are quite a few symbols and numbers on the screen but no where in the book does it tell you what these mean. Normally most instruction manuals show what these are at the beginning of the manual but not this one. I also have read thru the manual and still have not figured them out.
The manual says that the radio can be powered by either 2 AA batteries or rechargable ones and neither were included. But 2 AA batteries were included. It also says earphones are not included but it comes with earbuds.
This might be a great radio if the instructions were any good. Even auto searching for radio stations is a bit confusing to me. It says there are 3 different search functions. One is stop, where it stops at each station it finds, the second one is D-5, where it stops only for 5 seconds and continues on, and the thirdly, auto tuning storage. I tried it all 3 ways and it never worked. I spent 15 mins trying to figure this out. And even though I was following the instructions, sometimes the button to select these functions worked and sometimes it didn't. Currently to find a station, I have to manually find it instead of hitting the autosearch arrow key and that's really frustrating.

I loved the feel of this radio as it feels like a fine suede. The sound is awesome, however, I had to stand in the middle of my kitchen and hold the radio. If I attempted to lay it down, the music changed to static.

I will update this review if I succeed in figuring out how to work the radio. I am really excited to try the shortwave, but as another reviewer said, the radio needs a special long wire antenna or 50 to 75-Ohm coaxial cable feed line.

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Good Fun Radio, but you can find cheaper....

I ordered this radio looking for something that would have a little more sophistication than my Kaito KA11. I like this radio, but in my experience it received the same stations off the whip antenna that my KA11 (a radio that costs half as much) received with a piece of copper wire strung off its whip. With an external antenna, the G6 was overloaded, showing full signal on nearly every station and getting a lot of static, noise and bleeding of other bands.

The air band had the same AM bleed that other reviewers describe. When I did get airband, I thought that it was boring. Obviously that's not the radio's fault, but it ended up being a feature that I would never use. The radio also has SSB but I couldn't find anything over the entire band other than weird stretched am stations and static after a week's worth of trying. I may have been doing something wrong, but I read the instructions cover to cover and looked on the web, and other than scanning the air, what can you do?

I bought this radio for better SW reception and it has pretty good SW reception (gets the major broadcasts like BBC, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Taiwan, CBC, UTC) without effort, just no better than the radio I already have.

If this is your first shortwave or want to give SW a try without hassling with external antennas, this would be a decent choice and you wouldn't be let down. However, Kaito's radios cost half as much, perform just as well, and include batteries and external antennas. They just have odd ergonomics and interfaces and hard to decipher instructions. I find those things a little charming. The only things that I prefer from this radio then my KA11 is the style and the jog wheel. FM and AM on this radio were very good, FM especially clear in Portland, OR.

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With the Aviator at your side, you?ll always have great listening options. Tune in to AM, FM, aircraft band or shortwave frequencies, including SSB, easily with direct keypad entry. Or, use the AUTO tuning feature to browse stations and stop on the next available frequency. You can also use D5 tuning to get a taste of what?s playing ? stop on the next available frequency for five seconds at a time. Use the international clock and wake-up alarms to keep you on schedule, wherever your travels take you.

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