The reception is mediocre to unsatisfactory - even with better antenna and outdoors.
The operation is very laborious. In order to set a very specific frequency, several keys must be pressed in the correct order, followed by the actual frequency. Logically not seem to me the key combination before the frequency input.
Although you can preset frequencies - regarding also cumbersome, and no obvious logic of shortcut keys -. Retrieving the frequencies is then but also only illogical (at least for me) key combinations.