Kaito KA009 4 Way Powerd Emergency Radio Black

List Price: $69.95 Discount Price: $31.99

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

Customer Reviews:

Great work radio [Posted on 2007-08-05]
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!

Weatherband reception unsatisfactory [Posted on 2007-09-25]
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.

Good emergency radio! [Posted on 2008-04-05]
This is a great little emergency radio, allowing cranking for power or batteries or solar power. It also has a 110 AC adapter.

Lovely radio [Posted on 2008-06-03]
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.

A Poor Choice for Emergency Radio [Posted on 2008-11-26]
Yes, the solar panel does charge rechargeable batteries (optional), and does power the radio. Yes, the crank does generate electricity and does charge the rechargeable batteries to power the radio. Yes, I am able to tune in one weather channel in my area. And yes, I am able to tune into many radio stations.
I am sorry that I rated this radio so poorly. If I had this radio when I was a little kid, it would have been filled me with joy. I was a homeless boy living at the Optimist Home for Boys and only got money by serving local seniors - mostly by taking out their trash. I used that money to buy a battery operated radio and I paid cost to have an input for an earphone.
It is radio that will save us as a nation. And this radio is a very nice radio.

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