Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

2016-05-25 Thread Dane Trethowan 

Hi Again!


Sorry, there was one thing I didn't pickup in the subject line of your 
email, you're after a Weather radio too? That is a radio which is able 
to receive the U.S. weather bands? To my knowledge there is only one 
radio out there which has the weather bands as part of it and is able to 
receive all the other bands you've mentioned and that's the CCrane 
Skywave radio however performance on the Shortwave bands I'm lead to 
believe isn't all that good and its not the best performing AM radio 
either so if that matters then you may be a little disappointed.





On 25/05/2016 4:24 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Sorry I got the model number of the Degen wrong, it is in fact an 1103 
but put a DE in front of the 1103 so the model number should read 
DE-1103.





On 25/05/2016 4:18 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
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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Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

2016-05-24 Thread Dane Trethowan 
Sorry I got the model number of the Degen wrong, it is in fact an 1103 
but put a DE in front of the 1103 so the model number should read DE-1103.





On 25/05/2016 4:18 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
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?






**
Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest 
of the halfwits in this world behind.










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Those who don't need help are prepared to help themselves

Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

2016-05-24 Thread Dane Trethowan 
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?






**
Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of 
the halfwits in this world behind.








--

**
Those who don't need help are prepared to help themselves

Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

2016-05-24 Thread Evan Reese 
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?






**
Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the 
halfwits in this world behind.

Re: Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

2016-05-24 Thread Dane Trethowan 
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  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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Portable Am/Fm shortwave weather radio recomandations.

2016-05-24 Thread Singing Sparrow 
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?