TRRS #2563 - Tinyest FM Radio With Special A Feature - RADDY RF205

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Tom

[decoy]

I assumed this would be some little gadget from the 90s or so but then I saw the charging port and immediately new this had to be a newer device, I didn't know there was even a market for something like this anymore

[MnACreations]

It's a pretty cool little radio.. Thank you for sharing it with us, Tom!

[JazzinBlues]

Pretty sharp!
I've long wondered why these small radios offer RX instead of TX. I mentioned this about the Prunus review and noted that many phones now have better speakers than the radios (but was defended in the comments by Prunus themselves!)
By offering TX, you can now pair these small receivers with much larger bluetooth speakers adding value to both!!!

[stevenemert]

Wow, Tom, you are quick to upload. I'm watching you an hour after you recorded this!

[craigtegeler]

I would consider for this little Raddy to be quite decent even without the RDS! RDS isn't all that
great in especially with the display of being rather to small to start with although scrolling text
across the screen may/can also be somewhat problematic too! The fact that it is able to transmit
utilizing the 5.3 BT makes for things to be a plus as per the distance that most BT's are able to
transmit, coupled with having multiple connections type protocol can also rather good too! It is
a cute and at the same time a handsome little radio as well! It also has a solid pricepoint such as
to not break the bank and very subtle value overall. If I was the kind of person that wants to own
every good radio that I could possibly get my hands on, well I just might buy this one too! Wow Tom!
You actually have approximately 500 radios within your collection, WOW! I thought that I had bitten
by that bug! But hey, I great up collecting radios starting out when I was about 9 years old and so
now, some 59 years later, hell Tom, you've got me beat all to hell PERIOD!! I may have around 47
if not fewer radios over a course of my lifetime BUT, only around 85 percent of them are only truly
operational and the others had been lost to being destroyed, lost. drowned, scorched. dropped,
and/or left behind to my relatives! Truth be said, I have many! I buy mostly Japanese made and
not so much anything from Hong Kong, fewer Taiwanese per say and of course some European
made in the mix and there were around 10 U.S. made that I had bought! The one style of radio
that I had really gotten a kick out of was these portable car radios that had the radio dial on top
along with selector buttons, manual tuning and volume and tone controls, ALL of which were on
top as in with the radio standing up one edge and they had a front mounted speaker, somewhat
large with metal mesh front grill, carrying handle also on top and having the ability of setting it
up for tabletop use along with being able to use the carrying hand as a kickstand, frontal view
of the entire radio controls and all buttons, switches, you name it! Thomas, you've me entirely
beat all to hell with your having some 500 radios in your collection! I thought that I had gotten
bitten by that bug too but hey! Isn't it quite enjoyable having your very own menagerie of this, that
and the other??? Bubb's your collection has to just be really up there and wow, alot invested may
it be do to it being a hobby as such or just by way of a rock solid foundation, if not also through
a life long profession as well via repair business! Thanks Tom for giving us the heads up on this
little Raddy Rf 205!!

[normanhill]

I have several fm radios with RDS in automatic mode.

[juliencooper]

FM radios need an antenna, which can be built-in and also be or only in the headset jack through a headset wire or any wire with that headset plug.

What I don't understand is the brittle telescoping antenna - "be careful" - there are flexible wire antennas which can be built into a strap, retractable or just permanently out.

As a pocket radio has its tight spaces, bumps and rough holds, it needs the jack option for a headset on or off or a deadended wire or a built-in flexible antenna of some sort. Those are the radios I purchace, never with that thin metal tubing.

I used a headset seleced off or a deadended wire in my cellphone for FM radio, it worked fine. And a radio I had was designed only through the jack for a headset in use or its included wire, it worked fine.

[stevenemert]

Cute little radio. I winder why they do the FM band frequency steps so small, since (at least in the US) FM stations are spaced .2 MHz apart on odd frequencies (97.1, 97.3, 97.7, etc.).

[hudefuk]

Would buy if it accepted a Micro SD card.