Product Description Sony's ICF-SW35 Digital Tuning World Band Receiver features Digtial Tuning and 50 Memory Presets to keep the world's radio stations at your fingertips. Thoughtful extras built into this world band radio make it easy to enjoy everywhere you go. The built-in speaker can be muted by listening on optional headphones. There's a backlit LCD to view stations in the dark. Store up to 50 of your favorite stations. Variable Attenuator ATT Control for Scan Tuning allows the user to vary the amount of signal attenuation so that the Scan feature will only pause at stations with sufficient signal strength for enjoyable listening
Amazon.com Product Description Sony's ICF-SW35 Digital Tuning World Band Receiver is perfect for the world traveler! It features digital tuning and 50 memory presets to keep the world's radio stations at your fingertips. The ICF-SW35 is equipped with a backlit LCD for a clear, easy-to-read display, even in the dark. The 50 memory presets (10 presets per page, up to five pages) let you select and file stations by page, category, or type, then tune them in automatically with the touch of a button. The memory scan function will scan all the memory presents one at a time. The variable attenuator (ATT) control for scan tuning allows you to vary the amount of signal attenuation so that the "scan" function will only pause at stations with sufficient signal strength to allow enjoyable listening. No more fuzzy station stops when you scan with this device!
In addition to the world band reception, this receiver is great for travelers because it is small and compact with a built-in speaker. There is also a headphone jack for private listening enjoyment and improved sound clarity in noisy environments. Listen to radio at home or abroad with this travel-friendly, compact radio.
SW channels are hard to tuneJuly 15, 2008 It is a Sony which should be good right? however, tuning the SW channels is a pain in the butt! if you increase the sensitivity, it stops in each noise and if you reduce it it won't find anywhere at all!! I prefer the hand tuning better...
instructions manualFebruary 15, 2008 I recently got it but without instructions manual. Do not know how to use it.
An Excellent Simple AM/FM/Shortwave ReceiverNovember 23, 2007 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This little radio Sony ICF-SW35 Digital Tuning World Band Receiver is an excellent starter or second shortwave receiver. It is also an excellent portable AM/FM radio. Like most Sony radios, its music sound quality is, frankly, just adequate, but for listening to news and talk, which is what most shortwave listeners do, its sound quality is really fine and very clear.
The radio has very few features. For example, it has no direct-entry keypad, nor does it receive SSB (Single-Sideband) transmissions used by Hams. It is strictly for listening to local and world broadcasts. Some may regard this as somewhat of a liability but, for one just starting to use a shortwave receiver, this relative lack of complicated features can be a boon. And remember it is not features that make a receiver good or bad but, rather, performance.
And it is in performance that this Sony radio really shines.
It is quite sensitive using its telescopic whip antenna and it is very selective. (Adding a $15.00 wind-up antenna Sangean ANT-60 Short Wave Antenna, clipped to the whip antenna, improves reception, though it's not absolutely necessary.) Its image rejection characteristic (the ability to ignore harmonics of radio signals which can interfere with the true station on the frequency to which you are tuned) is, in a word, superb, better than that of any other compact shortwave receiver. Its overall reception performance is at least equal to or, in the overwhelming majority of cases, is actually superior to that of most shortwave receivers costing up to $150.00.
While others have written here that it is difficult to learn to operate this radio, in actual fact, it is not. You must read the instructions. Sometimes you have to re-read them. Many people just will not do this - and, for them, the radio, especially the usage of its memories, will indeed be difficult. But for those of us who do read manufacturers' instructions, there will be absolutely no problem operating this receiver to full advantage and learning how to do it very quickly. Literally, a child, or even a very old person, can do it. It's that simple to learn and use.
It is manufactured in China. Most Chinese-built radios, for example, Degen/Kaito, Sangean, and Eton/Grundig models, have variable quality control, mediocre in fact, more often than not. This unit, however, has exceptional quality - of design, performance, and construction - like most Sony products.
It features non-volatile memories so when you enter stations into memory, they will not be lost even with the batteries removed for months. The only thing that would have to be reset, upon inserting the batteries, would be the clock.
Regarding those memories, there are 50 of them, plus 2 more for the stations associated with the alarms, all user programmable, plus the bottom of all of the shortwave bands, a total of over 60 memory settings in actuality. While other radios may have a larger number of memories, in actual fact, the amount available here is plenty, more, in fact, than most people truly need.
Its simplicity in operation and excellence of performance make this an ideal first shortwave radio for a child. It makes a fine radio for an adult too, either as a back-up radio or as a relatively inexpensive shortwave radio to take on trips. It has two alarms so you can use it as a travel alarm radio and almost certainly it will be better than anything found in a hotel room.
Amazon currently charges $89.95, which includes shipping, for this Sony dual-conversion (highly desirable circuitry) radio. While there are other brands in this price range, I do not believe any of them will achieve the overall performance and, especially, the overall quality of this one. Sony products have always been known for their quality and for their long service life. This radio is no exception. Mine is five years old and performs exactly the same today as on the day I received it. I think $89.95 is a very low price for all you are getting with this radio.
I wish there were some way to assign 4 1/2 stars to it, but, as there is not, I have rated it 4 stars. I think that anyone who purchases this radio will be very happy with it. I am.
Sadly, it appears that this radio has been discontinued after seven years of production.
Unless Sony discovers a cache of these receivers languishing in a warehouse somewhere, it appears that this simple but excellent receiver will no longer be available new.
I do not believe that there will be many of them offered for sale used for some time. I think that most owners are as satisfied with it as I am and would therefore be reluctant to part with it.
If you want one, I suggest checking here on Amazon from time to time to see if they have been able to obtain some additional units and also check to see if other dealers have a few remaining in stock.
I am seeing this radio still being offered "new" - but at ridiculous prices.
The radio originally listed at $89.99 and was an excellent value at that price. In addition, it could often be found for much less - and then it became nothing short of a superb value.
But some of the prices I have been seeing recently (for example, $148.89 being shown today on Amazon) are far too high for what you're getting with this model.
I recommend that all persons AVOID this radio UNLESS you can obtain it "new" for $90.00 or less.
Great productJuly 24, 2007 I bought this radio for one of my customers and he was totally satisfied ! He has been telling me about it since. Not only does it sounds great but at home (Trinidad) it is twics as expensive. Try it and never look back
Did Short Wave not work or was there Rocket Science involved?December 18, 2006 4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Radio recieved in good order. Appeard to be a solid piece of equipment.
The FM did not seem to bring in much in my small town with 20+ FM stations.
The memory sets were a pain to figure out, so was just setting the clock and such.
What I bought it most for was the Shortwave. It did not receive but some weather and one or two other SW signals. The manual completly stinks. It is a shortwave radio and has very little to no info on SW stuff. There are multiple SW bands, but it does not tell you nor can you easily figure out how to move about them. I never did find the one station that has strong North American Signals and readily available. I did not find much at all.
A manual that is in 10+ languages is just silly because being everything to everyone it ends up as useless to everyone. What happened to covering English, French, Spanish, and maybe one more? And it is a super folding manual worse than a state map. Why can not not just be a folded 8x11?
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