Air band (VHF) freqs: https://skyvector.com/ Good coverage for US, Canada and seems to cover rest of world pretty well. Dave.

I have a Skywave SSB and the air band scanning scans the 10 air band presets on page 1. It goes through them quite fast so you won't miss much and 10 freqs is usually enough for even a busy location.

I made a PDF version of the instruction manual, prints on 3x5 inch paper. It's based on (cut and pasted from) info from the manufacturer https://www.dropbox.com/s/jskjvrgt0amppyl/Belka-DX%20User%20Man

Suggest looking for a name-brand item, Tenergy is an example or one of the flashlight brands like Nitecore - as another poster mentioned. In Canada www.batterycanada.com has Tenergy, if in US might tr

Just compared your review comments on squelch to the way my D808 behaves and have a couple of comments: You observed that “While still pressing in the Tuning knob you can adjust the Squelch level by t

The D-808 manual is obviously a place where some cost savings were made, e.g. mine refers to a Charge button to enable battery charging, there is no such button on my example of the radio, just plug i

Thanks for the great review, glad you highlighted the possible design plagiarism (I feel less guilty about owning the 808 since I also have the CC Crane original...). One thing I noticed is you wrote

Re "If you are lucky you get one that works allright, if not, well, it was just bad luck." I think this must be the reason different owners are seeing such a range of battery life results from these v

Sorry if that wasn't clear; genuine = adjective: possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real. In this case I don't believe there are genuine 18

1 From what I can see on the web the highest capacity 18650 battery available is ~3500mAh, AFAIK there are no genuine 9900 or 15000 products (despite what the label might say) 2 Comparing the XHDATA (

Another good source for air band frequencies is https://skyvector.com/airports, the site also has aviation charts so you can see which airports are nearby your location, the most useful are probably t

Re airband activity at your location: Horowhenua is in NZ near Wellington yes? Suggest start here: https://skyvector.com/airport/NZWN/Wellington-Int-Airport Start with the tower, even if the ground-ai