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Being a fan of my Yaesu VR-500, I was interested in the review of the AOR AR-Mini in the June 2009 issue of Popular Communications.

The review was pretty shallow. The piece read like a school book report on the specifications, and that's it. No practical overview of how to do basic things like tuning the VFO, or programming a memory. Was it a lot of keystrokes?

How did the speaker sound? Weak & tinny, or adequate for its size?

How was the receive performance? Any intermod? Spurious/adjacent signal rejection?

How about overall performance on AM shortwave, VHF and UHF airband, other bands? Was it deaf? Fairly sensitive?

What about stock antenna performance? Does it overload on a longwire?

Did you even turn the radio on and use it for any length of time?

What a disappointing article.