XHDATA D220 Portable Shortwave Radio

Mike Wilensky

September 24, 2026

Orange Pocket AN/FM/SW Battery Powered Radio

Powerful with crisp, clear sound pocket radio. So low priced but really worth a lot more!

Uses a lot of battery energy

Good little radio but runs through battery fast.

Nice for price

Love it. Listening to Yanks/sox game. If the Yankees came back to win it would be better though. They’re down 2-0 in the sixth. Real nice radio for the price. I live in CT and it picks up NY am radio station perfectly.

Easy operation, Loud and Clear, Roger that?!

Uncle is B52(plane, not the band), Cotton Club, Joe Louis is champ, years old.

He hates the boob-tube (television) and he reminisces about the old Bell and Howell he used to have on his work bench. I remember it, he used to attach a coat hangar to the antenna and listen to the shortwaves in the middle of the night after work.

This thing breaks all the rules of that old Bell and Howell. Shortwave during the day, 3feet from a wifi router, with the lights on, at 1500 hours (3PM), using the whip antenna. He heard something and asked for a dime. He used the edge of the dime to fine tune the transmission, turned up the volume, and listened to someone speaking Portuguese. (He speaks several languages fluently and knows Morse Code)

You're not going to pick up everything on the shortwave band that is possible. The scale is too small. Unlike his old Bell and Howell which had AM/FM/TV/WB/Air and an 8 inch tuning width, the transmissions will be a little cramped when the airwaves get busy. That being said, Uncle was able to tweak 26 discernable transmissions while sitting on the couch in the middle of the afternoon on the East Coast.

Portuguese, Japanese, Morse Code, Mandarin, Spanish, Polish, Church Sermon in Tennessee, The time track from Canada, Some guy in Ocoee, Florida who loves Maui, and a bunch more, spoke through the radio.....CLEARLY.

It's a very capable little thing, whose reception and sound are better than a lot of things that have claims of grandeur and can't stand up to them.

It's simple, familiar and instructions are not required. Don't worry about whether or not you can see the station's exact position or the lack of back-lighting. The ears and sometimes the edge of a dime are all you need.

P.S. The.close proximity of cellphones introduces static.....give the radio at least 3 feet to shine.

2:25

Buena calidad!

Robusto y bonito, gran calidad buena señal, funciona perfecto.

Lewin Edwards

May 4, 2026

Sensitive tuning but great emergency radio

Your emergency kit needs a battery powered radio, ideally a radio that takes off the shelf batteries. This is a great choice - it's inexpensive, easy to use, and takes regular AA batteries. Lasts for AGES on a single set of alkalines, so you can leave it playing while you listen for emergency alerts and other important announcements. It also has shortwave, which is interesting and useful.

The sound quality is good and it's plenty powerful if you turn it up. The tuning is quite sensitive, especially in shortwave mode - so you have to turn the knob carefully. But it's a great little radio and excellent value for money. Have a couple in your emergency kits, and a couple sets of batteries.

0:26

I bought 10, they all work perfectly.

This is a pretty good transistor radio, especially for the price.

I purchased 10 of these to give as Christmas presents for some of our grandchildren.

I had bought a stem project radio to put together, and I did, but it was mostly just putting together the radio case... and when the "wooden" cased radio was put together, it was a bit "delicate"...

When the grandkids visited they alllll were enamored with a radio they could carry around!! They had never seen such a thing!! Lol

Anyways, I decided to buy 10 transistor radios to give the kids. They alllll loved them!!

I got the orange ones because if (or when) they got lost, they would be easier to see and find. Since all 10 were the "same", I wrote each child's name under the little stand.

I installed the 2 AA batteries into each unit before wrapping the gifts so they would work instantly upon opening! Lol

The radio has a little port on the side to plug in headphones, too!

Overall, the radios are all still working and the kids are enjoying their "music machines"... lol

Jena K

July 17, 2025

Cute little radio!!!

So cute and bright color!! It’s loud for a little thing! Now I can have a little radio with me all the time, by the pool and in my office!! Love the wrist attachment and tuning is self explanatory! Works well!

0:12

Bad unit needs a better receiver

was working ok when i got it i said i might be able to deal with the lagging of stations and now i can here any stations

Pocket radio

Works great

+JW+

January 20, 2025

Great quality, great value.

I thought I would try one of these because I live on the west coast of Florida and during hurricane season I need something reliable and simple. Well this is it. Easy to operate and great reception. The replaceable AA batteries last hours upon hours if you can keep the volume at a reasonable level. Try one, the price is very affordable and makes a great gift too.

Probably the best portable radio

This little radio have an excellent sound quality.

Perfect little radio

Perfect little radio. If you ever electric this is a perfect radio to listen to. Has shortwave, FM 1, FM2, and WB

0:24

The Xhdata D220 good radio

Considering the price this radio is a fantastic little radio great SW reception! Also very good am-fm radio analog tuning is precise one of the best pocket radios I owned

Excelente radio

Radio muy bonita y con buena señal, ya era hora de adquirir una, nunca se sabe de algún Apocalipsis zombie donde las radio será el único medio de escucha 🤣

Darryl Outlaw

November 9, 2024

Good Deal

Good little radio for the price. The color is not as bad as I had expected. Makes it stand out too.

Durable.

Unit survived after occasionally drop from trailer sealing, batteries flew away as well as battery door, antenna bent just a little (taking into account antenna was completely pulled out this is very good result). Not the best signal reception, but it's still very good. I like how this exact model sounds, good radio for work. I took yellow color, so it's more noticeable, decreasing chances to forget the radio... Radio has a kick-stand, so you always can get a little better listening. Overall this is good piece for it's price. "Consumpt" 2ea AA batteries.

La calidad del producto es pesima

No me agrado nada el producto, el primer día y cuando le muevo el botón para la sintonía cuando llegó al final no regresaba.

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Rick Mills

August 7, 2024

Rugged, well designed little radio with excellent performance

DESCRIPTION:

This is HXDATA model D-220, a small pocket radio having:

FM1 band (87-108 MHz, USA)

FM2 band (64-108 MHz, Europe, Japan)

MW (AM) band (520-1730 KHz)

Shortwave band (5.6 - 22 MHZ)

It has analog tuning and a telescoping antenna. There is a conventional headphone jack.

There is no Bluetooth capability.

It uses two AA batteries (not included).

It comes in "olive drab" green, "pumpkin" orange, or black.

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PERFORMANCE:

FM1: Excellent reception.

FM2: This band is the same as FM1, but with additional coverage at the low end for some European, Chinese and Japanese stations. You can find all the same stations as on FM1, they are just closer together.

MW (AM): Reception of local and distant stations is very good during daylight hours. I could receive all local and some distant stations (Boston MA which is about 75 miles away). At nighttime, I could receive many more distant stations - several from New York City, about 300 miles away.

SW: Unlike many portables, the entire shortwave band of 5.6 - 22 MHz is on one section of the dial, it is not split up into segments like many portables. This means the stations are closer together when tuning. The Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip is a different animal for those of us used to conventional analog tuning. To tune a DSP radio, it is necessary to advance very slowly through the band to find stations. If you turn the dial too quickly it will pass right over them. Sometimes certain stations can only be found when tuning "up" and others when tuning "down".

I found clipping my 30' exterior wire antenna to the telescoping antenna brought in more stations, and made existing stations stronger as well.

A quick scan of the SW band found about a dozen strong stations, some in foreign languages which I could not identify, some religious broadcasters, and also CHU (Ontario, Canada) with time signals (7850 KHz), and a VERY strong signal in English from Radio Romania International (11620 KHz)

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PLUS POINTS:

1. The telescoping antenna is the most fragile part of any portable. This one compresses down inside the radio case, not tacked on the outside. This is a much superior arrangement as it is not exposed for damage.

2. There is a flip-out stand on the back which will support the radio on a desktop at about 30 degrees.

3. The tuning knob has a nice tight feel with no springback at all. The edge is knurled and I find it easiest to advance it with my thumbnail. The knob stops when you get to the ends of a band, which makes tuning in the dark easy as you can tell approximately where you are, and when you get to the end of a band. I listen in bed a lot, and this makes it easy to use without turning on a lamp.

4. There is a small red LED to indicate power is on.

5. The corners are nicely rounded to make it easy to carry in a pocket.

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MINUS POINTS:

1. The wrist strap attachment is inside the case and not accessible, unlike the type where it is looped through a capture bar. If it breaks off, there is no easy way to fix it.

2. The four positions on the band selector slide switch are quite close together, and the slide is the same color, so you have to look closely to see where it is. I tend to check this by just sliding it back and forth and counting positions.

3. The analog dial doesn't have specific indicators like a digital display, only having markers about 3 MHz apart, so if you are trying to get to a specific frequency, it is a bit of guesswork.

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OVERALL:

A nice tight, hefty little radio which is fun to use. I will be taking this one out camping and on trips, where I am hesitant to being a more fragile/expensive digital radio.

Perfect for BOB

Great for emergency or bug out bags. Easy to use and only requires 2 AA batteries.

Excellent Multi Band Pocket Radio

Pocket radio with excellent sensitivity on all bands. Was able to listen to all weather band local stations. On Shortwave I pick up several distant stations by moving the dial slowly since the radio being very small you have to smoothly tune them. AM / MW tunes local and distant stations so has good sensitivity.

Was able to tune many FM stations with good audio for such a small radio. Perfect pocket radio to carry around and excellent to have in case of weather emergencies to listen to the weather reports. Very easy to use. Super nice pocket radio to carry around!😍

0:16

Small, Portable, Easy to Use 4 Band Transistor Radio

Great, small portable size for a transistor radio. You need to supply your own 2 AA batteries.

Has a nice wrist band. Easy to turn On/Off/Adjust Volume using one dial. The top dial is to adjust the station on any of the 4 bands of the radio. It IS a little tedious to locate and adjust to the station/channel that you desire, but this is always the trade off when you get this kind of analog radio vs. digital tuner with programmable pre-sets. Just FYI, takes a little patience to locate and find your station if you’re going to listen to many diffeeent stations per day.

Switch on LEFT side of radio controls which of the 4 bands of radio that you want to listen too. Very, nice long extendable antenna. I could only show a very small portion in my photo re: antenna, it’s probably at least 3x the length shown at full extension.

There is a very small kickstand on the back of the radio, I’m not sure that I would ever use it, but I’ll keep it in mind. Most likely will just prop the radio upright as needed.

Volume can go pretty loud and there’s a headphone jack if you want to add on your own headphones. Does NOT come with headphones.

If you need a simple, easy to use radio, $15 seems like a reasonable price for this little radio. Enjoy! :0)

MrSteveP

August 3, 2024

Excellent Pocket Radio

XHDATA has done it again with a great pocket AM, FM, SW Radio. Reception and selectivity is stellar for a radio in this pocket sized portable class. 2 AAA batteries run forever and the radio has a low power consumption due to the absence of a backlight. Great radioby XHDATA.