Features:

  • This is the emergency radio with a large, ergonomic hand crank that requires little effort to generate power for delivering a superior combination of sound quality, playback time, and reception.
  • Its superior audio quality provides clear, crisp sound that allows you to hear every word of a NOAA Weather Band, unlike other models that produce distorted, static-filled audio.
  • Its superior battery provides 8.7X longer playback time than lesser models. Unlike other radios with analog tuners, it has an easy-to-adjust digital tuner that receives radio stations.
  • Additional superior features include an integrated LED flashlight, USB port for charging smartphones, mini-USB cable, and a built-in solar panel for supplemental power.
  • Utilizes a rechargeable lithium ion 3.7V battery (included). 5 3/4" H x 7" W x 2 2/3" D. (1 1/4 lbs.)
Great little emergency radio

This radio is great! So glad we finally purchased one, it will come in handy for emergencies. Stations come in clear, the speaker is pretty good for being so tiny too, the flashlight feature is really nice too (not the brightest but it works well), it's also very light. I have yet to try other features as solar charging, wind up and charging devices with it but I'm sure those will work really well as the rest of the features have lived up to expectations. I feel this will be very helpful if we get a hurricane and I feel more prepared having bought it.

This is a winner.

I bought this for my husband and he was amazed at the amount of things this little machine can do. He left it in our window (in partial sun) and it played all day. The speaker is surprisingly loud for such a small radio. It has emergency lights, plugs to charge your phone & Kindle, AM-FM-Emergency weather, crank and solar, and it is ready to go right out of the box. Easy to use.

I really like this device

I really like this device. I will be carrying it on all my backpacking trips as a useful emergency device, battery charger, and radio entertainment in the evening. It's a well functioning radio with AM, FM, and Weather bands, a speaker and jack for headphones (ear buds). It has a digital clock with a lighted dial and alarm function. There is a useful (not super bright) 3 LED flashlight. The internal battery runs all these features, plus can provide a full or partial charge to a cell phone. With several minutes of cranking the internal hand crank generator can charge the battery enough to listen to the radio and turn on the flashlight. Continuous cranking for 4 minutes will result in about 1 minute talk time on a completely dead cell phone. It weighs about 8 ounces and has a fairly well made plastic case. It's easy to operate and I got really good reception and sound quality.

So glad we had it!

I bought this for a long camping trip. Our cellphones don't get the best service and we would be traveling during tornado season. And what do you know one of the first nights camping there was serve weather and our cellphones couldn't even place a call. We were lucky we had the radio and could listen and go for cover. It's funny you buy these things to in case with not real intention to use them, and we used it two days in to our trip!

so far so good

bought one, tested it briefly, liked the design, bought 2 more. Haven't had a disaster yet so haven't had to really put them to use. Appears to be really flexible so that one unit can really meet a lot of needs. Of course, can't really use it as a flashlight while dragging a recharging phone around. But its flexibility when I tested it really sold me. And if I never need to use it in a disaster, I don't mind.

Wait for a sale!

I have several different models of the Eton American Red Cross Red radio and the best feature is the tuner, much better than earlier ones. The big difference between the FRX3 and the FRX3+ is the FRX3 will also take AA batteries while the FRX3+ will not. The FRX3+ seldom goes on sale while the FRX3+ can be had for under $40.00 if you look. Also an AC charger is a good idea and that can be had for under $10.00. Watch the polarity on the charger as it changes with the model so you can't just use any charger that will fit.

Great Radio So Far

Really like this radio so far. Sound is decent enough, battery goes on and on. Use it frequently as I move around the house doing chores, working in the garage, washing the car, etc. Not it's purpose, but works for me! The only negative I see is the emergency LED light. Very weak. The flashing red "find me!" light is also very dim. I wouldn't count on either one as a long term emergency light source. Might help you enough to find your headlamp or flashlight, but probably would struggle to read in the dark. Really like the digital quick tuning knob and volume. Good reception. Definitely recommend. Fortunately haven't needed for a crisis, but anticipate it would do its job.

the AM and the FM all have good reception and good sound

This is an awesomely simple little emergency radio. The NOAA weather band, the AM and the FM all have good reception and good sound. At a full charge, I think it would have enough juice to charge a cell phone with its 2000mAmp battery. No solar, no batteries except the built in's; just the crank. I like simple.

Mistake on Previous review (THIS DOES CHARGE iPHONES, you just need to figure out how -read below)

The product is labeled a "dump-charge" for smartphones. Though we may all think that we can plug the USB end of the smartphone charger (in my case iPhone 5) into the USB port and start cranking to charge, This is a false assumption for such power-hungry phones. I was very disappointed when i first plugged in my iPhone 5 charger to this and cranked and saw that it was incompatible (this just means that the charge output is too low to charge). But when I realized that after a while of cranking and putting the solar panel (on the side) under a lamp for a while and tried to charge my phone again: the result was very surprising. The Dump-Charge simply means (or at least the way i see it) that the product will dump all the stored energy into the phone. When the charge is insufficient, the phone will not accept it as a charge device (there's nothing coming through). But when the radio is charged a bit and plugged in, the charging will proceed. I apologize for my earlier hesistant and angry review before. THIS DEVICE DOES CHARGE iPhones (probably other smartphones as well) -just follow these steps: 1.Charge up the device's battery by cranking, solar, plugging it into another power source 2. make sure the device is OFF and the turn-wheel marker is not on "Cell" 3. Plug in your USB phone charger 4. turn the turn-wheel marker to "Cell" 5. Wait until phone says "Incompatible" (it means that the device's battery has now ran dry -time to crank again!) 6. Charge your phone fully (I recommend frequent attempts to keep the phone's battery above 90% just in case) ##Charging is very slow## **The manufacturer should definitely put this instruction in the manual.... -_-***

Just in case

Excellent product for an emergency kit. It’s easy to use and easy to store. This product can be hand cranked or sit it in the sun to charge through its built in solar panel (it’s quicker for hand cranking because it takes 10 hours of direct sunlight to fully charge the battery). The radio works well, it has am/fm and emergency broadcasting. It will also charge different devices. Overall I’m satisfied with the quality of this product and would recommend it to anyone.

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