I'm thinking of adding a battery powered radio to my EDC travel kit in case of future power outages, earthquakes, etc.
Desired characteristics:
- It should be very small and light, though I'm willing to pay a moderate size/weight penalty if the radio has a speaker (as opposed to earphone-only).
- It should NOT have any dangling wires or cords to snag on things. I don't want a headphone radio where you plug headphones into it. I'm ok with a earphone radio where the radio is BUILT INTO the earphone (one solid piece, no wires)
- it would be nice if it can receive both AM and FM. However, single band is ok, with AM preferable.
- Preferably it should run on one or two AAA cells, since I'm leaning towards AAA's for all my gear (Arc AAA and PT Rage flashlights, Garmin Geko GPS, etc).
- A built-in LED flashlight would also be nice (I've seen radios with these a few times)
- It shouldn't be expensive, let's try to keep it under $20, preferably way under. I don't need digital scanning with 100 memories or anything like that.
- None of the above (except the "small size" thing which is a relative term) is a hard requirement, they're just things that are desirable.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Desired characteristics:
- It should be very small and light, though I'm willing to pay a moderate size/weight penalty if the radio has a speaker (as opposed to earphone-only).
- It should NOT have any dangling wires or cords to snag on things. I don't want a headphone radio where you plug headphones into it. I'm ok with a earphone radio where the radio is BUILT INTO the earphone (one solid piece, no wires)
- it would be nice if it can receive both AM and FM. However, single band is ok, with AM preferable.
- Preferably it should run on one or two AAA cells, since I'm leaning towards AAA's for all my gear (Arc AAA and PT Rage flashlights, Garmin Geko GPS, etc).
- A built-in LED flashlight would also be nice (I've seen radios with these a few times)
- It shouldn't be expensive, let's try to keep it under $20, preferably way under. I don't need digital scanning with 100 memories or anything like that.
- None of the above (except the "small size" thing which is a relative term) is a hard requirement, they're just things that are desirable.
Thanks for any suggestions.