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Kaito KA008... forget it
Some time ago I posted here that if I had to
buy and emergency dynamo (crank) power shortwave, I'd get a Kaito KA008 Please forgive me for running my mouth like that. My curiosity got the best of me and I ordered one. "Emergency" is the appropriate word here... that's the only time I'll use it other than playing around. My initial testing showed that it's pretty sensitive, but let me tell ya... the analog tuning, with digital readout, is so out of calibration I'd have no clue what I was hearing unless I knew the bands and stations. For instance... BBC on 5.975 tunes in (with lots of interference from stations I've never heard on good shortwave radios) with the digital readout showing 6.000. On MW I get 990 kHz, but see the number 1020. FM is not off as much... 88.3 shows 88.5 on the dial. It has pretty good sound, and would come in handy if I had no power, no batteries and no other radios. Sensitivity is ok, but who cares when it's bleeding other stations into your signal and you have to tune off the desired frequency. Totally bleah as far as selectivity is concerned. I highly recommend you pass on this model unless you find it for $20 and want a new toy to play with. In my opinion it is worth nothing close to the prices being asked, even on sale. |
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