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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Whether there are commercials depends on the feed you use, not on the software or hardware you use. Alas, it costs money to stream audio (licensing fees, bandwidth costs, data centre costs). There are commercial-free Internet stations out there (e.g. CBC in Canada) but few with music will be free.
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Anybody tried the 5-Core TC-22? It is a cheaply-made but fully analog radio that seems to have really good sound, based on a Youtube video I saw about it: https://youtu.be/t1thDa4zeog
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Oops, that's the HRD-104 I reviewed. :) The HRD-737 is pretty similar, but of course has a lot more bands. It suffers from some of the same issues that the HRD-104 does on AM mode - it's pretty deaf. It definitely doesn't seem to hear much on the aircraft band, even though I can normally pick...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    HRD104 (not HRD737, oops, wrote on wrong radio but I'll leave this) notes as promised: It's not a bad little radio. As noted in the video, it's very thin and fits well in the hand. On FM, I find it to be pretty decent. It has good stereo separation (with headphones of course). Sensitivity...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Thanks! I'll try to play with it a little in the next few days, and then I'll make a report.
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Anyone played with HanRongDa radios? I picked up two, an HRD-104 which is simple AM/FM (anyone know how to change it into 10 kHz AM tuning mode? :) ) and an HRD-737, which is an interesting multiband radio that does HF and CB as well as wide VHF reception plus your normal AM/FM. As a ham, I...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Me too. Handy little radio. I confess I haven't done a lot of serious radio listening in the last year, but I've found my Sangean to be an indispensible radio to listen to the live broadcasts of my favourite CFL team while attending games. Shout-out to my Degen DE797 when I want something a...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Yes, it works well on FRS because the law limits you to, I believe, 1 watt and a unity-gain fixed antenna, and the Baofeng is 4 watts and has a slightly better antenna than that. If you want higher power and to be legal, and you're in the US, GMRS is your answer. It requires a license but no...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    If you have a ham radio callsign, it's a pretty useful radio since it's a dual-band 70cm/2m handheld. It's not the best ham radio handheld out there, but it's hard to beat for the price. For unlicensed use, I'd recommend against it except for life-and-death emergencies. In most countries...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Alkaline battery leakage is cleaned up really easily using ordinary white vinegar, if you didn't know it already. As long as it isn't too serious, the leakage can be entirely cleaned up and the alkalinity completely neutralized.
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    I picked up one of those Kaito KA390s a couple of weeks ago. (See earlier in the thread.) It's a $20-25 US AM-MW/FM/SW/Weather band radio with analog tuning, and runs on 3 D cells. It also has a built-in LED flashlight. I'm happy with this radio. It's monaural but the sound quality is...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    Quiet here lately :) I picked up C. Crane's CC Pocket radio recently. I picked up season tickets to my favourite football team (Saskatchewan Roughriders; brand new stadium just opened!) and wanted to be able to listen to the local radio broadcast while attending games. For various reasons my...
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    Small Portable Radio's?

    I agree about monaural radios, but there are lots of reasons to listen to HD radio over the air instead of over the Internet. You might prefer to save the bandwidth, find yourself in places with poor Internet connectivity, or wish to listen to the radio during Internet or power failures. You...
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    How Detrimental Is Cold Weather To Batteries?

    With the exception of lead-acid batteries (and I'm not sure if gel cell batteries fall into this category), batteries generally don't mind being frozen. In fact some batteries self-discharge more slowly when frozen or kept very cold. If you try to use the batteries while cold, they will...
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    Questions about VHF radios?

    Whether it's a Tech test depends on what country you're in :) (that's a USA-ism) but passing the test in most countries is not that bad. (I can personally vouch for Canada.)
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