Comments on: Porsche Design Aluminum Hand-Crank Radio http://www.geekalerts.com/porsche-design-aluminum-hand-crank-radio/ Gadgets for Geeks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert http://www.geekalerts.com/porsche-design-aluminum-hand-crank-radio/#comment-1182 Robert Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:57:15 +0000 http://www.geekalerts.com/porsche-design-aluminum-hand-crank-radio/#comment-1182 Sorry to hear that pacific. Thanks for the info! Sorry to hear that pacific. Thanks for the info!

]]> By: tony in the pacific http://www.geekalerts.com/porsche-design-aluminum-hand-crank-radio/#comment-1167 tony in the pacific Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:34:45 +0000 http://www.geekalerts.com/porsche-design-aluminum-hand-crank-radio/#comment-1167 Unfortunately good idea, poor execution. Purchased this at Sharper Image. Had to return the first one for a loose connection, lost the station and got static. Second one lost power from the batteries when moved. The radio dial calibration was so misaligned as to be unusable. Listening to AM on the AC adapter was full of interference. You need to use the antenna to get a decent AM signal as there doesn't appear to make be an internal AM antenna, an inconvenience. The second one went back and I got a refund. I really wanted this to work but for a $200 radio the the quality control people were asleep at the wheel. Shame on Eton! Buy one of the Freeplay radios, cheaper Eton crank radios, or one of the Sony crank radios instead. How sad. Unfortunately good idea, poor execution. Purchased this at Sharper Image. Had to return the first one for a loose connection, lost the station and got static. Second one lost power from the batteries when moved. The radio dial calibration was so misaligned as to be unusable. Listening to AM on the AC adapter was full of interference. You need to use the antenna to get a decent AM signal as there doesn’t appear to make be an internal AM antenna, an inconvenience. The second one went back and I got a refund.

I really wanted this to work but for a $200 radio the the quality control people were asleep at the wheel. Shame on Eton! Buy one of the Freeplay radios, cheaper Eton crank radios, or one of the Sony crank radios instead. How sad.

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