To put things into perspective, the little Degen radios are incredibly
powerful - wasn't long ago that such power would have to come from a
tabletop - and we're talking small portable here.
They're not on the same scale as your Sangean ATS909X or the Eton
Satellit but at a quarter of the price of those two radios? Well they're
damn good value for money.
The AM of the 1103 has some slight image rejection issues but again,
we're talking about a radio under $100 which is hotter than a fire cracker.
The audio isn't first class through the internal speaker but certainly
not the worst and there's plenty of good audio to be heard through the
headphones socket or the line-out jack.
The 1103 can even be connected to an external antenna through the jack
provided if you feel that way inclined.
On 25/05/2016 3:56 AM, Evan Reese wrote:
I found several Dejen radios on Amazon for well under $100, but not
the D-1103. Nothing for Kido 1103.
It's pretty amazing what you can get for less than $100 these days,
especially when I consider that I grew up with short wave in the
1970s. Things have come a long way since then..
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:26 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.
There are a lot of Shortwave radio sets out there which are blind
friendly but the trick to getting a blind friendly shortwave set is to
be prepared to learn how to use it.
The cheapest around which is an all-round good performer would be the
Degen D-1103 sometimes known as the Kido - hope I got the spelling
right - 1103, the set has been around a good while and as far as I
know is still available for well under $100.
The radio covers all the Shortwave bands along with Medium-wave and
Long-wave bands, has SSB tuning should you want it and performs well.
There are a few tricks to this radio but overall the interface is
extremely well laid out.
One of the things I like about the radio is the analogue feel to the
tuning, yes it has a knob for tuning the radio with the added tester
year feel of each band wrapping around.
For example you select a band and start tuning using the dial, when
you come to the upper or lower end of the band - depending on your
thing direction - the radio doesn’t just go to the next band rather it
wraps around to the end and continues tuning.
The 1103 has a numeric keypad though its a little strange to get used
to at first as all the numbers are from left to right.
Buttons are easily identifiable, keypad buttons are small round
buttons whilst function buttons are rectangle in shape.
These radios were being sold by the giant discount Aldi Supermarket
chain in Australia up until recently.
I have a document which describes how to use the radio and its many
functions which I was involved in compiling if anyone would be
interested, email me and I’ll send along a copy or - if demand is
great enough - I’ll put up a Dropbox link.
On 25 May 2016, at 12:24 AM, Singing Sparrow <sunsh...@abe.midco.net>
wrote:
Does anyone have any good recomandations for a radio in the subject
line? that is blind friendly? if so what is the brand, model, and
price and where can a person buy it?
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