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Kaito KA009 4 Way Powerd Emergency Radio Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: Kaito
Category: CE
List Price: $69.95
Buy New: $32.76
You Save: $37.19 (53%)
New (5) from $32.76
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 16618
Color: Black, Red, Silver
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 1.3 x 5.5
Model: KA009
EAN: 6937170813014
ASIN: B000E68282
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: New and in box, box is a little beat up.
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| Features:
| • | Powered by hand crank, solar, 3AA batteries, or using a wall plug | | • | AM: 520 ------1710KHz | | • | FM: 88-- 108 MHz | | • | TV Audio: Channels 2-13 | | • | 4 Continuous short wave 4.00 to 26MHz |
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Product Description
The unit is a versatile emergency radio to keep in the trunk or take on your next camping trip. Although its performance on any given band is modest, it does receive an amazing number of bands: AM, FM, TV Audio channels 2-13, Weather 162.55-164.4 MHz, VHF high band 145-174 MHz and four shortwave bands (6-9, 9-12, 12-15 and 15-18 MHz).The versatile unit can be powered four ways: From 3 AA cells (not provided), via the built in solar cell, via the hand cranked dynamo generator (which charges the internal Ni-MH cells) or with the supplied AC adapter.Comes with earphones and antenna wire with clip.6.5x5.4x2.6 inches (166x138x68mm 477 g).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Lovely radio June 3, 2008
I've had this radio for about 2 months now and have been enjoing it nearly every day. The sound quality is great, it picks up stations well, and looks/feels great.
The methods for self powering do work, but do not provide too much longevity. Cranking for about 5 minutes only yeilds roughly an hour and a half. Which is decent, but gets sort of annoying after a while especially when the signal reception deteriorates from low power. The solar panel doesn't work very well for collecting energy, but works great on the spot. I love using this radio while working in the garden on solar.
When using batteries the radio works best in my opinion. I even can recycle batteries that have been "used up" by my digital camera. So far I've gotten about 10hrs. of play life at medium-low volume from batteries my digital camera "used up."
I've mostly used the radio to listen to NPR, and music on FM. The short-wave bands are also interesting to listen to at times. Picking up foreign stations is not hard at all. The air band rarely picks up clear channels in my location; the TV bands don't pick up anything; and the weather band doesn't really pick up anything either. It should be noted though that my home is sort of a black hole for cell phone and radio signals.
Overall this is a great radio. If you listen to the radio often and want a more "green" way to listen this is it.
 Good emergency radio! April 5, 2008
This is a great little emergency radio, allowing cranking for power or batteries or solar power. It also has a 110 AC adapter.
 Weatherband reception unsatisfactory September 25, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just received the radio, and most of the functions work OK, but the weatherband reception is unsatisfactory. Using a different radio (Midland WR300) I can get three or four weather broadcasts very well, but with the KA009 I get noise and some FM-band stations when trying to tune a weather station on the weather band.
I'm ready to return this new radio. Amazon's instructions are to send it back to Kaito. Unfortunately, Kaito's web site has no information about returning products.
Great work radio August 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The radio works great at work. I sit in a construction office trailer, and I like to listen to the radio.
I charged it up once, and it runs and runs. Yeah, solar!
Great Radio For the Price June 13, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After experiencing Hurricane Rita, I felt I needed to buy an emergency radio. I keep this one at work and my Grundig FR400 at the garage at home. I've had nothing but good experiences with the radio. I can get the weather band fine, hear the major TV stations in the Houston Area, and pick up the airline bands nicely. It comes with a ac adaptor unlike the Grundig. The built in rechargeable batteries are a great feature. I've only used the dynamo a few times and it worked. I've not tried the solar. It is stored in an office so I expect it to last many years. I've tested all the bands and work fine. The LED light works. It does seem fragile. I wouldn't drop it above 3 feet. It is compact. Small enough to bring it to an Astros or Dynamos game to hear the play by play. I wish they would make a digital tuner with programmable pre-set buttons.
Edited: 6/18/2007. I own an Eton/Grundig FR300 not FR400 as stated above.
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