Jay’s FM radio shootout

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Ron and Troy who note that Jay Allen has posted a review comparing FM performance on a large number of radios. His takeaway? Modern portables do an exceptional job receiving FM broadcasts.

He's got a great point, too. While I don't spend a lot of time testing FM on shortwave rigs, I always run each radio through a benchmark FM test. Even some of the smallest, least expensive DSP-based portables I've tested, seem to receive my distant FM stations list with relative ease. Shortwave and mediumwave performance, however, varies greatly from unit to unit-no doubt, based on DSP implementation.