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Missing a few items, but Big League Nevertheless
By Placeholder on Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2011
I like this Eton emergency radio. It is my hope that the manufacturer actually reads this review as it is not really intended for any of you Amazonheads. Here are the problems with this unit that I think are important enough for a redesign: 1. There is space for three AAA batteries. The instructions say these must be non-rechargeable. Why? HEY, we're talking about emergencies here. With just a couple circuit changes the three AAA batteries could become chargeable types, thus tripling (or more) the time between hand-cranking. 2. There is NO space to store the necessary cable provided with the unit. This cable is necessary to charge from a PC or DC source and (when reversed) is also necessary to use the unit to charge a cell phone. What good is the unit for these two purposes without the cord? I just bought a Sony videocam. It has a cord built into the handle that can be slid out two-three inches for connection. Genius. The cord provided with this unit is about 18" but it only needs to be 3". Thus, making an internal place for it would be easy. 3. The rubber protection supposedly provided for the connections doesn't work. Lousy design. Once you unseat the original seal, the tightness is lost and no protection for the internal circuits from dampness is provided at all. Certainly the part provided is better than nothing but not much. More effort should be made to make the seal more water tight; for example, instead of the semi-hard plastic used substitute a more flexible silicon-type. 4. The antenna placement sucks! Lousy. 100% external. Not smart and not wise. It will catch on just about anything. Place the antenna 100% inside the unit as other products do with just a graspable tip sticking out. ### 30 30 30 ###
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1 people found this helpful
It's not clear if it's monitoring the weather alerts or not.
By Biohazard on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2013
I have two Eton weather radios, this one and an older one. The older one goes off for no reason sometimes, so we bought this new one to replace it. This one doesn't go off for no reason like the old one does, BUT for a long period of time we thought it was set to monitor the weather, and it was actually off! We heard the old one going off in the closet, so that's how we knew we were missing a storm coming. Because it doesn't have dials and switches, there's no way to just look at it to see if it's turned on to monitor or not, you have to push the alert button to make the screen light up, which then, ironically, will turn it off. Then you have to push it again to set it back to alert. And if it's been sitting awhile, or if you have other people who use it too, you have to keep messing with it to make sure it's still monitoring and someone else didn't forget to do this silly process when they were done listening. It makes it unreliable, and we are back to the old one, false alarms and all.
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