"Roadie" ) writes:
On Mar 3, 8:13 pm, "Cato" wrote:
On Mar 3, 12:31 pm, "HD Radio Fan" wrote:





"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in ...

Roadie wrote:

A radio that uses a built-in generator would be much easier to carry
around and keep charged up than your other alternatives. AM, FM and
weather channel coverage is far far more imprtant than shortwave in an
emergency radio.

Only in the U.S.

Geoff.

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The original poster to this thread is in Canada. Close enough?- Hide quoted text -

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Yes, I am in Canada. I live about ten miles from the border at
Niagara Falls. Spent a lot of time in both Canada and the U.S. Have
relatives in both countrys. Family been here since 1635.
We have the same type of Weather Alert-Emergency Alert system as
the U.S. Environment Canada runs it as far as I know. We can buy the
same alert radios as in the U.S., We use SAME technology in the latest
radios. Same frequencys. NOAA and Environment Canada have agreements
together on the system.
I agree that a radio with weather frequencys would be very
important. However, for some reason, I don't trust these wind-up
radios for long term use.

Uuuuh, why don't you trust the windup radios. Have you had problems
with one? The Baygen radios have been used in Africa for a long
time. Over how long a term were you planning to use the radio.

And of course, one key thing about emergency preparedness is redundancy.
If the windup generator fails, it won't kill the radio. And you should
ahve batteries and other things available to run it. On the other
hand, as you point out the generator is useful if the solar cells won't
charge the batteries because there's no sun (or to run the radio while
the batteries are being charged in the daytime while the sun is out).

Michael