Monthly Archives: March 2007

New Kenwood TH-255A

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Here is the new Kenwood TH-255A VHF portable transceiver.

Looks like the newest economy handy, with expected features like:

  • Compact Design
  • Aluminum Body
  • 5 watt output
  • 100 memories with alpha tag’s
  • “Optional” Ni-MH battery

    • And usefull features like:

  • Password Protection
  • Emergency Siren

    • Here’s a picture:

    TH-255A

    And the manual, for those interested: here.

    Crank Powered Family Radio

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    Cool, now you can have it all! Your hand-powered flashlight/cell phone charger/radio.

    And this 22 channels of fun FRS/GMRS radio. So now you can talk your fellow stranded “disaster refugees” and talk about the weather! ;-) Unless that is, you allready have a hand-crank weather radio!
    American Red Cross FR300 Emergency Radio

    Crank Powered FRS
    This beauty is sold by Life-Gear which also offers an impressive array of disaster supplies, like food and water and complete emergency kits.

    I almost want to buy the complete sets of products, and wait for FEMA! Well huricane season will be here soon…