Customer Reviews

Coby World Band AM/FM/Shortwave Radio with Digital Display CX39, Silver

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

It's certainly a substantial radio for the money.
FM reception is excellent.
AM reception is marginal for a rural area.
I ordered 3 radios. ( for family members )
One didn't work right out of the box.
Another developed a scratchy volume control
after a few hours of use.

It has a digital display for AM and FM radio, but the problem is the tuning itself is not digital. You spin a knob on the side to tune it... making this no easier to tune stations. Who knew they even made radios like this? I bought this so I could easily change the channels from AM to FM but it is not easy at all. In fact it is very difficult to get to the right frequency. Also, I could not get in an AM channel that I know other radios could in the same location. On the plus side, it was compact and cheap. You get what you pay for I guess.

I've been using the COBY CX39 for a few months. It has a few oddities that I wish I had know before I purchased it. The AM stations all have a high-pitched interference sound no matter what station and what direction I point it in. I don't experience that on my other radios. It's very annoying. The FM frequency does not do this, but AM is terrible.

The tuning is a bit odd. It doesn't lock-in to a frequency like a digital radio. You have to constantly adjust it to get the strongest signal. The dials to tune and adjust volume work counter-intuitively in that dialing up turns the dial/volume down and dialing down turns them up. Plus, it only saves one station. So if you switch between AM and FM it only keeps one of them. You can't even store your favorite on each frequency.

This radio is less than total junk.......fm band is inoperable...i am so upset, i will eat the loss, instead of sending back, etc.....

This is sold and stocked by Amazon (not some other company) and is so far below Amazon;s old standards as to be worthy of this critical review....Amazon should be ashamed.........

Even for a Coby this thing is horrible. You wont get clear signals of any station. The materials are cheap and the dial broke after 2 weeks. I gave it 1 star because you can't give it a zero.

I own several small radios, including portable shortwaves. This is by far the most unuseable. With single conversion design and a low price I expected some things to be under par, but....the frequency readout was way off and selectivity was horrible. Regular AM stations were impossible to tune in accurately. There was significant 'bleed' between adjacent stations making it difficult to impossible to listen. I returned this unit.

I was willing to ignore the bad reviews others gave this radio but after using it for a couple weeks it is truly a piece of junk. I plan to send it back for a refund since it doesn't function close to its description. Coby should take it off their product line. It is difficult to tune and then drifts. The antenna won't move to tune and then broke off. It is simply a bad product. The digital display is a joke and meaningless. i don't know why they even put it on the radio.

I bought this radio two months ago. Already the volume dial is not working. I paid $7 for shipping the first time, now I have to pay to ship it back to Coby and then pay another $6 to have them ship it back to me. All for an $8 radio.
Very cheap material used, low quality.

Item works fine. Perfect for our picnics by the house or in the park. If you do not need playing CDs or iPODs, or any other MP3 player, this radio is for you to deliver local music and news.

This is the 2nd time I've purchased this Coby CX39 radio. The first time, it performed well and I gave it to my roommate as a parting gift because he enjoyed listening country music radio stations out of it. The 2nd radio I purchased, I thought the quality was due to high voltage powerlines nearby that was causing poor reception. But I have a boombox stereo playing in another room. I moved that boombox to the kitchen and realized I can receive more radio stations on it that I could on this Coby CX39 :-{ Besides poor reception, the digital readout display is out of calibration. When the radio DJ would pause for station identification, they'd announce (for example) "...news 980.." (AM dial), yet the digital readout shows "990." I turn the dial to 980 and I loose reception on the radio station. I've posted this Coby CX39 on Craigslist and had sold it for $5 to some Hispanic guy (illegal alien) who spoke limited English. Thus, I was able to recover some of my $$.