Kaito KA1101 - Worldband radio | 
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| Brand: Kaito
Category: CE
List Price: $149.95
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 3557
Color: silver and black
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 3.3 x 1
MPN: KA1101
Model: KA1101
EAN: 6927674211010
ASIN: B000669GA8
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| Features:
| • | Dual conversion technology, wide/narrow AM filter | | • | Four tuning methods: direct, manual, scan and preset | | • | Built-in automatic battery charger, alarm clock and sleep timer | | • | Compact design, ideal for travelling | | • | One year limited warranty |
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Product Description
This high quality world receiver was made in the best radio factory in Asia and it receives all the stations in short-wave spectrums. The special designed circuit is a high sensitivity one, but no noise. FM STEREO/FML/MW/SW1/SW2. This unique digital radio starts FM from 70.0 MHZ, most of Campus radio station can be tuned in with this range.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Did I expect too much? September 22, 2008
FM reception is good, AM reception is below average and the worldband reception is nearly nonexistent even being positioned on the 4th floor of a building using the supplied external antenna.
 Absolutely terrific, no frills, portable am/fm/sw receiver September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kaito/Degen has done it again! I needed a small AM/FM/SW radio for travel and have compared several including the Kaito KA11, the new Grundig G6, the older Grundig YB-550PE, the Sangean ATS-606, etc. I am still not done with all my evaluations, but I definitely think that the Ka1101 is a great small and very inexpensive ($ 55-60 depending on the vendor) and a very excellent receiver! It apparently comes in silver and gray, but mine arrived in gray from Amazon. I am extremely impressed right out of the box how well it performs even for quite weak signals and with the antenna on sw not even extended.
PROS:
1) Comes with rechargeable batteries, velcro-sealed slip case, earbuds, long antenna wire, adapter/charger and very readable manual (which fits nicely inside of the supplied Kaito KA1101 slip case!). Batteries are designed to be easily recharged inside the radio.
2) Excellent weak signal reception on ALL bands including Low frequency FM or FML (starting at 70 MHz). It really performs very well!
3) Excellent bandwidth choice for the Wide/narrow switch on the keyboard on AM (MW) and SW and a separate FM, FML tone switch (labeled as Music/news on the right hand side of the radio), a Mono/Stereo switch on the keyboard as well as a Local/DX switch on the left hand side of the radio.
4) Lock switch and external antenna jack
5) Back light controlled by available ambient lighting with an on-board light sensor system
6) Numerous tuning methods available
7) Very high quality and very readable display with numerous icons for charging, battery life, Mono/stereo settings, wide/narrow filter setting, etc.
8) Very long battery life
9) Simple direct system for changing the 5 individual bands in direct order only (no reversing of the band change direction is possible).
10) Finally, it has a nice and very easy to use reset button on the front panel just in case the system acts irregularly (which I have not observed at all)
CONS: These are all very small and of no great significance whatsoever!
1) Only a total of 50 presets are available (10 on each of the 5 bands), however they are extremely easy and very intuitive to set and recall.
2) Smallish speaker (after all, I wanted the radio to be small and portable so this has to be the case!)
3) No signal strength meter available on-screen or otherwise
4) It uses 3 AA batteries instead of a pair of batteries. Also, when rechargeable AA's are used, the full battery charge will not register on the screen (only 3 of 4 of the battery indicator icons are visible under these conditions).
Very nice, full-featured portable radio August 19, 2008
Bought this radio last month in order to listen to music and talk radio in my office. I needed something that could pick up signals through several thick interior walls, and still take to the beach and on ski trips.
When I got the radio, I was surprised at how small it is (about the size of 2 cassette tapes or decks of cards), but was pleased by the heft. Directions were a bit confusing at first, but not the worst I've seen.
AM/FM Reception is quite good. It's better than the Eton 300 I picked up at LLBean (and lost), bettern than the $10 Jwin I bought at Walmart, and almost as good as the much, much larger Emerson MBR1 I have at home. SW reception is better than the Eton, but I haven't used that feature much. Signal doesn't seem to drift. I unplugged the radio yesterday at noon, left it on overnight, and it's still running on the same charge 20+ hours later.
All in all, this is a very good, very portable radio.
Could not pick up any Shortwave August 16, 2008
All hours of day and night could not pick up any SW radio. Even went to ther side of state and tried. No luck. Went and got shortwave listings and put in. still nothing. Had to return this Item to Amazon.
Great little radio!! July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this radio based on the reviews. Especially the ones saying it gets good reception. I work in an office near the middle of the building so there are no windows nearby. I was told by the IT manager not to use the internet for radio streaming. Well this radio is my God send. No radio works in my office. But this radio with its extended FM/shortwave antenna brings in the stations I wanted. Awesome!
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