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Title: AM worked only sometimes (on my radio at least)
Review: FM is bearable (the antenna is too short and the radio itself has poor sensitivity). But AM reception is at best intermittent: the radio suddenly shuts up, then suddenly spits out another blast of sound. Thus for your hearing protection, should you use this "radio" for AM, do not crank up the volume and move it closer to your ear when it becomes silent.P.S. For EE-educated readers. During such periods of "AM silence", the circuit happily oscillates. By turning power on and off you can stop oscillations (for a while :).
