This radio Panasonic can I as a frequent user of long and medium wave highly recommended. I often hear the French stations on the LW and am regularly out on the MW. The reception of the RF 3500 reminds me of a high-quality portable radio, which had my grandma in the seventies and eighties in her living room. The transmitters come full and clear, hardly noise and very sensitive. A few years ago I heard in northern Germany even regular local stations from a weak near Paris on the MW. I already have the second RF 3500, as I had the first couple of years ago given away to a friend of Africa who wanted to hear French-language stations. After a short time I just had to buy me a new one.