Survival Basics - Emergency Radio Eton frx3
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- This is another segment of our survival basics series of videos. This one is focusing on emergency communications.
We recently bought an eton frx3 emergency radio and this is a basic overview of it's capabilities. It usually retails for aroun $60, but we got ours from Best Buy on sale for $48. The capabilites are:
Power from either 3 AAA batteries or internal rechargable battery.
Internal battery can be recharged by dynamo, solar or USB.
Has AM/FM and 7 NOAA weather stations
Has outputs for headphone and USB power output
Has aux audio input to play music from ipod, mp3 player, etc.
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Timely video for me! Looking at this very radio for emergencies. Thanks for the review! Thanks for the sub too!
Great expo! Thank you for your narration about features and expectations. Looks to be a nice radio to have for various backup occasions.
Great review.. very well documented. Although I did notice you go through the features again.. like the solar panel you mentioned twice and such .. But keep at it my man..
Good video I bought one of these @Amazon It works great here not far fron u in Elkton,Maryland.Ch 5 on WB Sudlersville Md comes in nice and clear .Yes It will pick up WBAL AM KYW AM and WSTW FM with ease.Great to have in an emergency.The rechargable battery also charges off my computer via USB.
Looks good might get day one .
I've had one for three years. Very good radio, but, the one feature is doesn't have is an SOS alarm!
I'm actually on the drawing board right now to design a supercap boost/buck circuit that will replace the battery in this unit, and basically anything that runs on 3.3 to 4.5vdc. This unit needs 30ma to run the radio, and the boost converter based on a ncp1402 won't output 30+ma when the supercap goes under 1vdc. I'll start developing it this spring as this might become a side project of the solar jars that i'm working on.
When I opened up the emergency radio most of the components are surface mounted. It looks like the dynamo is a variation of a stepper motor and there are 1 amp diodes in a full bridge rectifier which then feeds the rechargable battery. My guess is that it's putting out around 500ma easily. I have already also tried charging a 350F supercpacitor with the dynamo and it really does some work then.
Your very welcome!
ya thanks...im pretty much a prepper, building a decent size battery bank and putting up a few good solar panels this spring, I also have a pretty big Honda generator...Cheer's...
ok, just pulled mine out, it's the Midland base camp with 2 way radio, guess i better get familiar with it before i really need it...
Hey I'm in Delaware. New castle is channel 5... And I'm also getting that radio
I am looking to getting this for a vehicle/bug out bag that I will be carrying in a back pack. Has it held up?
4:18 the blinking red light is actually not a for show it is an emergency or SOS signal etn's newer portable emergency radio/flashlight (scorpion 2) odly enough doesn't have that kind of feature but it is a good thing to have and most flashlights should have that feacher gust for you to know it could really save your life.
If nothing else just make sure you have good batteries ready for when you need it.
Got one of these as a gift. I like it except for the fact that I'd rather it be SW than WB. WB is fine it it's a weather emergency and power is only out for a few days but if it's SHTF then you really want SW.
Autoxdriver I agree, I wish it had SW as well.
Autoxdriver WB band in Europe used as taxi radios.
The down side is that Nickel metal hydrite batteries last only 2 to 3 years
good review...i need to get mine out of the safe and go over it...been so long i don't remember what brand i have....
So, this is a radio-RECEIVER with mediumwave, 3-meter FM and 162 MHz weather-band
Not a fan of this. Should run on 3 rechargeable C batteries but it's either a wimpy cordless phone battery or alkaline, good you can charge a phone for about 10 minutes if I plugged in the 5 pin trapezoid shape tip over a few days
have you completed this project!?
9:42 same sound my Bluetooth speaker makes when turned on
These are not that good, but my eton fr 160 sounds pretty good.. I bought one of these and took it back to wm.
Is this made in the U.S.A?
gerald gramins nope (made in China)
gerald gramins An American Brand Eton and it’s World receiver German Brand Grundig.
The miniUSB connector is fragile; someone grabbed my radio while it was plugged in to charge, and wound up jerking the internal USB connector off the internal motherboard. It isn't easily reparable now, so I can't leave it running all the time in the house anymore...and that also means getting a full charge is harder. Argh. I wish the internal battery had a bigger capacity, especially to help charge up my iPhone 4S while I'm out camping for a week.
The miniUSB connector is not that fragile, not as much as the microUSB connectors are. Not to discount your problem but the port wasn't made to be yanked or jerked around, that qualifies as abusive use to a unit. As for the internal battery needing a bigger capacity, I completely agree.
Please learn English, it's "run it on" not ran it on. I like the replaceable battery but the design sucks not to store the cable in it.
haz troll lately?
Crap it is not stereo. Why would anyone even manufacture anything not stereo now a days. Forget it.
It's an emergency radio, not an iphone, think task specific and not i want everything with cherry's on top.
iPhone is not stereo either.
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