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Title: Lovely to look at, but miserable AM reception
Review: The old radio we had in the kitchen when I was growing up achieved better AM reception than this. Even the radio in my cheap car (Hyundai Sonata) gets better AM than this.I live in a rural area without sources of interference. The radio is on the second floor, near a window. The building is wood-framed. There is no possible excuse for the pathetic performance of this radio! And, yes, I tried an external AM antenna.After dark, it does not, and apparently cannot, discriminate between distant stations. Rotating the radio (to orient the internal ferrite rod antenna) makes only a marginal difference.During daytime, a station that I can hear clearly on my car radio comes in with enough background hiss to be almost unlistenable on the Sangean.All the money seems to have gone into the box, which is very nicely done. But I didn't buy a radio just to look at it.
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