This was an interesting radio. I opened it up and thought it looked cool,
but when I put brand new batteries in it, it was dead. Grrr. I went home,
got out my multimeter and took the radio apart. Everything seemed normal,
and then I accidentally made the radio come on when I hit my multimeter
prong against the coils where the batteries sit. So I stretched them out,
closed up the radio, and re-installed the batteries, and it worked fine.

First, let me say this radio has nice sound. It's a cool size and shape, and
it has everything arranged just exactly where I would put them if I had
built it. One disadvantage, the owners manual and even the radio's switches
are all written in Chinese. That didn't help much when I was trying to
figure how to turn it on. But once I got the batteries properly installed
and seated, the controls were second nature.

It has a tuning knob, a fine tuning knob, and a volume knob, all on the
right side of the radio. All worked perfectly. I also tested the light and
the alarm. Again, all was fine.

The radio, like the BCL2000, is broken down into two SW bands, one MW band,
and one FM band. Coverage is not as complete however. The radio's reception
was about the same as my Tecsun R-9700DX, which I am selling on eBay. But
unlike the 9700, the 333 has horrible image rejection, especially on FM. I
was finding our two local 50kW stations all over the dial. Maybe if you
didn't live in an area with many of those such stations, it might be
alright. It picked up a few standby stations on MW and SW, nothing to get
excited about, especially since my computer is on and there's a lot of buzz
in the air right now at my house.

I'll probably keep this radio because it costs only $15 and I won't feel
guilty if I get it wet sometime or leave it in the sun too long. Don't buy
this radio to DX with. That's not the purpose of it. It's purpose is to look
cute and to serve as a cheap, battery-powered clock radio that looks cool.

By the way, here's a link to the radio at Tecsun's English site:
http://www.tecsun.com.cn/english/pro...33/main333.htm

Hmm, I don't have the problems you mentioned with mine. Mine is also fairly
sensitive off the whip! (I'm referring to shortwave) It seems that the per
unit quality on these cheap Chinese radios is "all over the place"...



"Corbin Ray" wrote in message
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This was an interesting radio. I opened it up and thought it looked cool,
but when I put brand new batteries in it, it was dead. Grrr. I went home,
got out my multimeter and took the radio apart. Everything seemed normal,
and then I accidentally made the radio come on when I hit my multimeter
prong against the coils where the batteries sit. So I stretched them out,
closed up the radio, and re-installed the batteries, and it worked fine.

First, let me say this radio has nice sound. It's a cool size and shape,
and
it has everything arranged just exactly where I would put them if I had
built it. One disadvantage, the owners manual and even the radio's
switches
are all written in Chinese. That didn't help much when I was trying to
figure how to turn it on. But once I got the batteries properly installed
and seated, the controls were second nature.

It has a tuning knob, a fine tuning knob, and a volume knob, all on the
right side of the radio. All worked perfectly. I also tested the light and
the alarm. Again, all was fine.

The radio, like the BCL2000, is broken down into two SW bands, one MW
band,
and one FM band. Coverage is not as complete however. The radio's
reception
was about the same as my Tecsun R-9700DX, which I am selling on eBay. But
unlike the 9700, the 333 has horrible image rejection, especially on FM. I
was finding our two local 50kW stations all over the dial. Maybe if you
didn't live in an area with many of those such stations, it might be
alright. It picked up a few standby stations on MW and SW, nothing to get
excited about, especially since my computer is on and there's a lot of
buzz
in the air right now at my house.

I'll probably keep this radio because it costs only $15 and I won't feel
guilty if I get it wet sometime or leave it in the sun too long. Don't buy
this radio to DX with. That's not the purpose of it. It's purpose is to
look
cute and to serve as a cheap, battery-powered clock radio that looks cool.

By the way, here's a link to the radio at Tecsun's English site:
http://www.tecsun.com.cn/english/pro...33/main333.htm

Where did you get this radio, I tried searching around for it to read more
but found little??

"Corbin Ray" wrote in message
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I apologize for an earlier posting where I was complaining about my Tecsun
R-333. I was in a bad mood because the radio arrived and it seemed to be
DOA. But after I straightened out the bent battery prong (a condition that
could have happened in any battery powered radio), it works just like its
supposed to, and it really does perform at least as good as a $50 radio,
even though it cost only $15.

I really LOVE its tuning apparatus. It has a regular tuning knob which
might
be a bit touchy, even though I've since gotten the hang of it, but the gem
of its tuning is its fine tuning knob. This is completely independent of
the
regular tuning knob. Once you tune the regular tuning knob say to 889, the
fine tuning knob will let you tune nice and slowly from 888 to 891, just
as
smooth and sweetly as the most expensive radio ever made. It's hard to
describe until you see and hear and feel it in action. It does the same
thing on short wave as well, and I just wish every radio used this tuning
method. One of my beefs with the Tecsun BCL2000 (aka S-350) is its fine
tuning. Maybe Tecsun could somehow incorporate its R-333 tuning system
into
future BCL2000s.

As far as sensitivity, the R-333 surprised me once I got my computer
turned
off and the house got quiet. It picked up stations that I didn't expect to
hear on it. On MW and SW, it far surpassed my R97000DX and held its own
with
my DE1102. But if I had to choose between my R-333 (a very simple radio)
and
my Degen 1102 (lots of neat gadgets), I would have to keep the 1102, but
since I don't have to make that choice, then I'm planning to keep both of
them right there on my nightstand and I'm very pleased to have found two
fine keepers.

The R-333 is a fun radio that is way underpriced at $15!!!