[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Adam

One cool thing I didn't notice until I turned the radio on in the dark is a blue electroluminescent dial scale. Although it's very dim, really only noticeable in the dark. I'm not really sure how bright it's supposed to be.

It may have been designed that way on purpose -- so that the radio dial wouldn't light up so bright it would wake a person up. If the sleep timer were being used (and if this radio had one), the user would want the radio to put him or her to sleep with music; any kind of bright dial scale would defeat the purpose of the timer, unless the user was one of those rare people who could sleep through anything, including bright lights (!).