Comparing Radio User Interfaces: Tecsun PL330, Sangean ATS909x2 and Grundig YB300PE

[@leonwebster4296]

Thanks so much for this video. I appreciate your perspective and hadn’t thought much about user interfaces.

[@417Keto]

Good thoughts now i need 2 Edit: Want 2

[@frankcosette3046]

There is a way to remove the mute

[@guardianobserver6593]

There is nothing comprehensive to hear anymore on sw! Why spend your hard earned money?

[@sfred]

There are good shortwave stations out there, but they mostly aren't targeting N. America. This makes hearing them more difficult, but for me that's the fun part of the hobby.

[@guardianobserver6593]

@@sfred if you don't understand the language, it's only dreams of a childhood that gone by many years ago. You can offcourse continue searching Guatemala radio and say to yourself that nothing changed. The same with photography that most age users refuse to accept the idea that a good smartphone nowadays can make their life much easier, the same with high fedelity audio files that clean every night their vinils in order to play them on their thousand dollars system when a mp3 have nowadays the same output quality, the same with ham operators (probably the worst case) that spend every year thousands for the newest transceiver, swear that makes wonders respecting the old one, many of them not even making qso anymore and only listening thousands times repeated discussions on miraculous antennas.

[@nooneinpart]

@@guardianobserver6593 Speaking as someone born in era of smart gadgets, there's simply an allure to doing things the harder way now that doing everything over the internet is normalized. Everybody can look up stations over the internet, play whatever song they want, see whatever they want to see. On something like a radio, you take what you can get, and this opens you up to things you've never considered before because you're always in an echo chamber with algorithms online. For me, music is a great example. If I listen online or to my own collection, I'm always sticking to the same handful of artists and never listening to anything new. There's an overwhelming number of choices and I feel compelled to stick to what I'm familiar with. But with an actual radio, at least on FM the only things worth listening to are non-commercial stations, of which there are a few in my area. If they play something I really don't like I can swap stations, sure, but the lack of a skip button and the limited selection means that I do end up spending time listening to stuff I don't normally care to listen to. I've found new artists and songs from artists I know that I haven't heard before. Not to mention this method of news and entertainment will likely keep working if something happens with the internet. Xfinity was upgrading the infrastructure in my area a while back and I had no internet connection for a few days. They gave us a "free" speed upgrade later.

[@nooneinpart]

@@guardianobserver6593 As for the comment about people buying new transceivers every year, there are normal people that buy new phones every year. What's new? The camera has extra pixels, the screen is brighter, your social media feed loads a fraction of a second quicker. People just love shiny new gadgets.