The simplest and cheapest of all the models tested this scored points with Tom Granger because it seemed very standard and took up little space but also because it has oldfashioned dial tuning Its more intuitive to set up With modern pushbutton tuning youre never really sure if youve pressed all the buttons in the right order so you cant have confidence that the thing will actually work He accepted however that manufacturers had been obliged to improve the quality of radios because of the advent of buttontuning I thought the tuning rather crude as did Paul Bridges but we agreed that the radio quality was fine The buzzer on this model certainly works it succeeded in getting me out of bed in just two beeps