C Crane CCRadio-2E Enhanced AM FM Weather and 2-Metre Ham Band (Titanium) CC2TE

Overall a good radio.

Loved this radio right out of the box ! Beautifully designed, with basic simple controls. Well made, user friendly, and sounds GREAT! Thank You C. Crane !

Radio exceeds my expectations. Clarity of am stations is outstanding. I like the snooze timer for night time listening.

Happy with the radio

I had an older CCRadio for many years and recently decided to get this newer model and sell the older one on an auction site, which I did successfully. This one one is very similar, but adds the HAM radio band. I doubt I will use that much but I guess it's nice to have. I also opted for the Titanium color versus the Black one that I had previous. I like the new color, it looks very sharp although the unit I received did have a slight manufacturing defect-there is a mar near the LCD window where it looks like they nicked it during assembly. This for me is not enough of an issue to hassle in sending it back in for a replacement however. The radio sounds and performs wonderful. I don't have any issues in my location with reception anyway but the reception seems quite strong and the speaker on it is great for both talk radio and music. It is very clear and can fill the room with audio nicely. I'm using this mostly as a clock radio and it works very well for that. I also use the sleep function often when it's nice to be able to fall asleep listening to the radio, without having to worry about having to shut it it off later. I only wish this had Bluetooth functionality so I could pair my iPhone to the speaker and use it to play music. That would be very cool. This radio is also a bit pricey. Note, this radio takes .6 watt of power when off but when you have the weather alert feature activated, it adds 1 more watt. I wish it was a bit less, but I can understand why this is: the weather alert receiver needs to be constantly on and scanning in order to be able to receive any weather alerts. I guess it's worth it, especially in the winter and since I live right on the coast. This amount of 'vampire' draw probably equates to less than $2.00 a year in electricity.