Clearly some compromises have had to be made to keep the price down. The up-down method of tuning is not as convienient as the keypad system you find on radios costing about another 70 dollars. There's no single sideband facility or any way to reduce the bandwidth when there's a strong interfering signal near by. This radio is an example of the cheapest PLL synthesized set you can make. There are no frills.
Performance is fair.
The synthesizer generates quite a lot of internal noise, so we got better overall reception using an analogue radio costing 15 dollars less. We got just over 20 hours of listening from a fresh set of alkaline batteries, listening for periods of an hour a day. That's not bad, but running the set off the mains is a lot cheaper. A mains power supply is not included as part of the package though. In short, this radio is fair value for those who must have digital frequency readout.