👏🙏💙 Great video, thanks for making it. Very timely, I've been looking to buy an emergency radio...so many out there, too many, I got overwhelmed and couldn't make a decision.
Wow, I used to live in Las Vegas and KDWN am720 was THE am station for all of Southern Nevada. Art Bell used to do his show from the Union Plaza before he went supernatural and started broadcasting from Pahrump.
You beat me to it. I am looking at that unit, trying to decide if I want it. For the size and coverage I think its perfect. I have been considering the battery though. I usually prefer a readily sourced battery but I think from a reality perspective its good. Can the battery be disconnected or flipped around to prevent discharge? The clock feature will drain the battery when not in use so was wondering if there is a way to stop that for storage minimizing the discharge rate.
Question about antennas.. As an example, if you used a 10 ga wire for the antenna, but used the 3.5 mm plug from a cheap antenna which has a really small wire, would it act as a bottleneck, making the 10 ga wire of no use? Or I guess I would ask, is any benefit of an antenna wire over the size of the wire in the 3.5 mm plug is wasted. I want to make a longer antenna, but all of the used jack plugs I have use a smaller wire, so not sure if I need to buy the same size wire as the plugs, or go larger for the antenna wire. I am thinking go a bit larger to make sure it is gathering all it can regardless of the wire size the jack plug uses, but I have no idea how this works. I am wanting to use either 14 or 16 ga wire.
The wire gauge will not matter receiving because the current is very low. The plug will not bottleneck the signal if you use a #12 or #14 ga wire. High up and long, away from RFI will do best.
Most television is digital, with most stations being on 170-224 and 470-608 MHz. I use it's big brother the Raddy RF-760 or HRD-747. Good radio for frequency coverage, size and price. Oh, some European nations have digital audio broadcasting (DAB+) on 174-240 MHz. Try 27.185 MHz on CB, channel 19, or 27.035 MHz. Also HonRongDa HRD-737.
@@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY Yes, in the USA. Don't know if it is used in Europe, like 50-52 MHz. Oh, there are a few test stations on 69.9-70.5 MHz in the USA, so-called 4 metre band. Yes, I know about the 219-225 MHz band. The entire 216-225 band is used for special radio services.