KA 1102 SW Radio
Small but lots of nice features
Comes with earbud headset, 23' external antenna, AC Adapter, 3 Recharable Batteries, Internal Battery Charger, Backlight Display, great FM stereo sound thru earbuds, 3 Bands ~ FM ~ AM ~ SW with Single Sideband. Clock is 12/24 hr, your choice. Alarm w/Sleep settings.
I've had mine for about a week, but just now getting around to hooking it up. Placed the batteries in the radio ~ they were dead ~ Set the mode for charge and for 5 hours charging time. Next morning batteries were fully charged. Set the clock for 24 hour time, then checked it with the Universal Time on SW Band.
At night I can set the backlight to stay on (closely read instructions to do this). If you set the radio on a shelf at eye level, and above, you can read the large LCD frequencies easily. Seems to be a blind spot when looking down at the screen. Attaching the external antenna does improve SW listening, does not affect AM however, haven't checked FM because reception was excellent.
On Short Wave last night, there was some weird news. According to this report: The U.S. has been warned sometime after 2007 to prepare for a deadly epidemic this year of the Swine Flu Virus. Instructions are to prepare areas for human mass burials near high metropolitan centers. Chicago and Alabama were two areas that I was able to understand where preparation has been underway. FEMA also was mentioned as to ordering mass production of plastic bubble (6) person caskets for this undertaking.
