Great radios for the great outdoors

Another “super” radio comes from the experts at C Crane.  Their CCRadio-Plus is a star at receiving radio stations especially over long distances.

It’s designed to highlight the human voice making it one of the best radios anywhere to listen to nationwide “talk radio” programs — especially at night.  It also sounds pretty darn good when playing music and everything else.

C Crane The CCRadio-plus plays AM, FM, weather and TV audio.

CCRadio-Plus is an AM/FM/Weather and TV audio (channels 2-13).   It has bass and treble controls, a clock alarm, sleep timer, auto scan, stereo headphone jack and an AC cord.  You can also expect up to 250 hours of listening from 4 “D” cell alkaline batteries.

The CCRadio-Plus comes in black or platinum and retails for $164.95.  C Crane stocks a huge number of accessories – everything from carrying cases to add-on antennas for improved reception.

C Crane also sells Freeplay’s Lifeline Wind-up radio.  It’s designed to withstand harsh conditions and climates, be easy to use, and work without batteries or AC power.  Lifeline is powered by winding it up or by solar power.

C Crane The Lifeline has a solar panel on the top and a wind-up crank on trhe back.

This AM/FM/Shortwave radio was originally produced for humanitarian projects in the developing world and for every Lifeline Wind-up Radio purchased one will automatically be donated free to help orphaned children in Africa.

Lifeline is big and blue and sounds very good.  It retails for $99.95 and boasts a 2-year manufacturer’s warranty.

For inexpensive shortwave listening, I can highly recommend Sony’s ICF-SW11 portable.  It’s a 12-band, world band receiver (AM/FM/SW/LW) that features an easy to use analog tuner as well as an FM Stereo Headphone Jack.  The radio sounds good for its size and price – plus it’s very portable.  It would fit in a large pocket, a purse or suitcase.  The ICF-SW11 retails for under $50.

Finally, you can’t discuss portable radios without mentioning Delphi’s MyFi XM satellite radio receiver.

Delphi / XM The XM MyFi is a portable, car and home sattelite-radio receiver.

MyFi is the world’s first portable satellite radio.  It also includes everything you need to enjoy listen to it anywhere - a car kit, home kit, rechargeable battery, headphones, antennas and more.

In addition to listening to the live satellite radio feeds, you can store up to 5 hours of music/news/talk – without having to deal with computers.

As a portable radio, Delphi’s MyFi is very hard to beat.  It has the capability of being one of the best-sounding portables on the market – as long as you get yourself a good set of earphones (like a pair from Shure).  MyFi retails for $299.99. 

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