https://radiojayallen.com/qodosen-sr-286-am-fm-sw-high-performance-portable/sample quote
This presented me with a problem – since the SR-286 beats all my Five Star FM portables I would either have to lower all of them to Four Stars or create a Six Star rating for the Qodosen. These are interesting results to say the least.
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AM Performance was also interesting. Because this is a compact radio the built-in ferrite rod is necessarily small and reception off the ferrite is consistent with the best radios of this size…it would rate perhaps *** to ***1/2 in the AM Mega Shootout list. However, you can select the whip antenna instead of the ferrite rod, and there is also a switchable 20 db amplifier you can enable. If you then take the radio to a very low noise area, such as outdoors, the AM reception becomes phenomenal rivalling my best Five Star reference radios.
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Manufacturer cannot get enough of the new IC chips so not many $129 Oodosen SR-286 radios made yet
