Travel with the world in your pocket. Another exciting breakthrough in world band technology. A well built radio that fits in the palm of your hand. AM/FM-Stereo/SW radio with LED indicator, six shortwave broadcast bands, telescopic antenna, earphones and belt clip make listening easy. Comes with soft carrying case.
Good Things Come In Small Packages
Rating
Written By cowboyind
Date Written May 27 2003
Summary
You can spend a lot of money on a very small shortwave radio. If you want to do that, check out the Sony ICF-SW100 or ICF-SW07. Those excellent radios will cost you $350 to $500, and they do offer a whole host of features and "toys." They're also...
Strength
Very good shortwave reception, small, simple, long battery life, great value
Weakness
Weak AM (medium wave) reception
Bottom Line
With the Mini 100 PE, you can keep up with what the world is saying while working outside, relaxing on the porch, or traveling the globe.
This is a review of the Grundig mini 100 PE shortwave radio. It can be purchased at a very low cost of about 20 to 40 dollars online. The radio is very tiny less than the size of a pack of cigarettes. It looks like Grundig makes another more expensive...
Strength
Great battery life and useful portability in a shortwave radio
Weakness
The tiny speaker sucks
Bottom Line
The radio is ok as an inexpensive portable shortwave radio but has serious drawbacks because of it's mini size.
It's hard to bash this little radio because it is so cute and inexpensive. And what can you really expect for under $40CAD? Still, I can't help but wonder if shoppers wouldn't be better served with something twice the money, twice the size and a lot more...
Strength
Inexpensive, very small, audio better than other similar sized radios
Weakness
hard to tune, drifty, suffers from most known shortwave problems
I had one of these: The potentiometer for the volume control died after 50 hours of use. Autopsy revealed an "el-cheapo" component. FM stereo was superb (ear buds), sound, sensitivity, station separation. Just amazing, I assume the radio uses the...
Strength
good SW, excellent FM Stereo, batteries seem to last forever
Weakness
cheap and scratchy volume potentiometer, AM really weak
Once I spent $ 360 on a fancy name-brand pocket shortwave radio, only to be disappointed by the mechanical ruggedness of the unit. It broke, and I threw it away because fixing an 8 year old radio didn't seem to make any sense.
Yet, I still...
Strength
Very small, light, inexpensive, good use of bandspread, good sound with headphones
Weakness
Wish it had the 16 Meter band (21.5 MHz). Tunes "backwards" (confusing).
Bottom Line
Nice AM / FM / Shortwave radio to have when walking, jogging, biking, camping. Great value for the money.
Works like a charm, I am in East Texas and can hear the world. Clear reception, good sound. Speaker rattles some at higher volumes but is expected from such a small unit. Unbelievable stereo F.M. sound with headphones. I am amazed. Truly outperforms my...
Strength
Excellent reception, especially with homemade antenna attached, handy size, pretty good sound.
Weakness
Too many bands to listen to, not enough hours in a day.
I saw where one reviewer complained about a "poorly engineered AM band and useless internal speaker." I couldn't disagree more. I am about to buy a 2nd Mini 100 PE, precisely because I love the way it precisely tunes AM stations, and projects an...
Strength
Twice as good as any other internal-speaker pocket radio I have ever seen.
