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Makita BMR100 Radio

$99.00 Est. at Amazon

from By aggreX, reviews.homedepot.com
makita's jobsite radio has great sound along with genuine portability compared to the competition.
from www.amazon.com
i bought it anyway because i was satisfied with having a good jobsite radio that did just what this one said it did.
from www.amazon.com
i would never use one of these on a jobsite anyway so i am still giving it 5 stars.
from www.amazon.com
if you want a jobsite or garage radio, this is a good one.
from www.amazon.com
i would definately recommend this as a great jobsite radio.

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Positives: Nice Sound Quality, Excellent Battery Life, Inexpensive, Tuning: Digital

2 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for JOB

Sangean DT-120 Radio

$46.00 Est. at Amazon

from BHAVEY from PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL, clickfrom.buy.com
i wanted a radio that would deliver consistent am reception and this product does the job
from A Customer from Iowa, clickfrom.buy.com
this radio does the job.
from www.amazon.com
this radio is still able to pull in reception and make the day easier to get thru (crappy job).
from www.amazon.com
this little radio does a great job, especially for am purposes, where my favorite newsradio stations are.
from www.amazon.com
i will have to see if it puts up with the abuse of my very physical job, the heat, the water, and the metal shavings which have affected all of my other electronic devises.

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Nice Battery Life, Tuning: Digital

3 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for JOB

Peltor 90534-80000 AM/FM Radio

$48.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
on amazon we found great pricing, quick shipment and a fabulous product that we would highly recommend for anyone who works in their yard or even on a noisy job site.
from www.amazon.com
and it does a good job of reducing noise levels.
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the peltor does an excellent job, considering it's 1/3 of the price.
from www.amazon.com
between phone calls and barking dogs, horn honking and other rude noises, these 'cans' are 'all that and a bag of chips.' i also use these on the job for working in noisy environs and love the way i
from www.amazon.com
the headset does a great job of quieting things down not just for the mower, but also for the weed eater and blower as well.

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, Nice Battery Life, High Quality, Design: Headset

4 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for JOB

Sony ICF-38 Radio

$30.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
but it does sound great and gets the job done if you just want some background noise from a radio that is so cheap you don't care if it gets broken or stolen.
from www.amazon.com
this radio is very retro, but gets the job done.
from www.amazon.com
he says it does the job and sounds fine for the situations he is using it in.
from www.amazon.com
the smaller one will go on jobs with me where there is no electricity.

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, High Quality, Easy To Use, Tuning: Analog

5 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for JOB

Sangean SR-33CL Radio

$28.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it is a simple inexpensive and spartan short-wave radio, but it does a very good job in pulling out the main short-wave stations.
from www.amazon.com
i have rarely been able to pull in our (wtop, washington, dc) local am news station, but this radio does a fine job.
from www.amazon.com
for those who ride the cta, or metro north or other mass transit-this radio does the job.
from www.amazon.com
i use it at work - at my new job everyone is in close proximity with everyone else and they all listen to thier ipods.
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i will have to see if it puts up with the abuse of my very physical job, the heat, the water, and the metal shavings which have affected all of my other electronic devises.

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Positives: Nice Sound Quality, Excellent Battery Life, Easy To Use, Tuning: Analog

Midland Weather/Hazard Radio

$40.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i just hope it will do it's job when the time for the next tornado warning comes.
from www.amazon.com
it has already starting doing it's job for me.
from www.amazon.com
the directions do a good job of helping you find the codes for the counties you need.
from www.amazon.com
the weather alert does a great job.
from www.amazon.com
but the buzzer and lights will go off - so it does the job of giving me a warning.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Good Battery Life, Inexpensive, Tuning: Digital

Sangean DT-400W Radio

$71.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this little radio works great and does the job i wanted - fits in a pocket and gets great reception and has very acceptable speaker quality.
from www.amazon.com
but do the job.
from www.amazon.com
however, the fm tuner does not do a very good job of filtering stations from nearby frequencies when i'm tuned into a specific frequency.

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Positives: Nice Sound Quality, Great Battery Life, Easy To Use, Tuning: Digital

Panasonic RF-P50 FM/AM Radio

$12.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i live in a fringe reception area, and this radio does a pretty good job of pulling in stations where other small radios have failed.
from www.amazon.com
panasonic has done a marvelous job in recreating the classic "transistor radio" which fits perfectly in your hand.
from www.amazon.com
a larger radio will give you slightly better long-range am reception, and better sound for listening to fm (stereo, bigger sound and more bass), but this thing does a great job for its size.
from www.amazon.com
reception can be a little weak at times, but it's still does a good job most of the time.
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for on-the-job/camping we use sanyo eneloop nimh hybrid batteries (they hold their charge much better & will not self-discharge fast like most nimh cells will)...

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, High Quality, Inexpensive, Design: Pocket

Sangean DT210V AM/FM/TV Radio

$57.00 Est. at Amazon

from Charlotte from Ponca City, OK, clickfrom.buy.com
it does a great job in tuning them in and the fm reception and sound is great!
from www.amazon.com
this little radio does a great job, especially for am purposes, where my favorite newsradio stations are.
from www.amazon.com
reception can be tough in our area, but this radio does as good a job as any.
from www.amazon.com
this radio is still able to pull in reception and make the day easier to get thru (crappy job).
from Bob from Omaha, clickfrom.buy.com
finally, about 9 to 10 years later, although superglue and duct tape did an admirable job of holding the exterior together, terminal interior trauma ended its useful lifetime.

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, Easy To Use, High Quality, Design: Pocket

Sony Clock Radio

$22.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.bestbuy.com
not top of the line but just something affordable that gets the job done.
from www.amazon.com
in a small community quite aways from any big cities so i do not have a good radio connection and this alarm has had a pretty good connection so far, i prefer the volume loud and it does a good job.
from www.amazon.com
cheap alarm clock that does a great job!
from www.amazon.com
i live in a small community quite aways from any big cities so i do not have a good radio connection and this alarm has had a pretty good connection so far, i prefer the volume loud and it does a

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Positives: Easy To Use, Inexpensive, Nice Battery Life, Display: LED

Sangean DT200V AM/FM/TV Radio

$54.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i use this radio at work in a large open office; it does a good job of picking up am as well as fm.
from www.amazon.com
this radio does a nice job of rejecting the adjacent signal.
from www.amazon.com
i have never found a portable of this type to do a satisfactory job of cutting down on the serious bleeding and overloading effect caused by strong fm locals (within 10-20 miles of towers) that a
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normal reception is heard through the built-in speaker that does a great job with voice reproduction for am talk shows (and older ears) and is surprising with fm, also.
from www.amazon.com
with my job, i often will get stuck on a job driving heavy machinery for several weeks at a time.

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Good Battery Life, Design: Pocket

Eton FR300 AM/FM/Weather/TV Radio

$50.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
that can be for the next product improvement cycle, for now, this one more than does the job
from www.amazon.com
it does the job though, especially for something that uses no electricity.
from www.amazon.com
it's not "hi-fidelity" by any means, but it gets the job done.
from www.amazon.com
anywho, the fr300 could stand to be better quality for $50.00, but it does the job as intended and it's kinda fun and my kids love it.
from www.amazon.com
true the thing is not the most rugged available, but it does it's job well enough when kept on hand for an emergency.

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Positives: Good Battery Life, Easy To Use, Tuning: Analog, Design: Portable

Sony ICF-S79V FM/Weather/AM/TV Radio

$75.00 Est. at Amazon

from "Happy Shower Lady!", www.abt.com
great job sony!
from www.amazon.com
i love this thing, good job sony.
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how nice, a packing job that actually protects the item!
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for a first shot, eurocom has done a great job with living up to naughty dog's legacy.
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good job!

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, Easy To Use, High Quality, Tuning: Digital

Tivoli iPAL FM/AM Radio

$175.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
also an excellent portable solution for ipod...just not stereo once again...tivoli does a great job...this radio is worth it's steep price tag easily for me...
from www.amazon.com
it has pockets specifically designed for the ipod and it does a good job of protecting your gear as you toss it around (it's a thick, soft canvas material).
from www.amazon.com
it has a rubberized case and i work outside a lot so it is always with me at a job site.
from www.amazon.com
it does a superb job with any genre of music.
from www.amazon.com
metal speaker grille got a little dent the first time it travelled in a suitcase - but its only aesthetic and it did its job of protecting the speaker itself.

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, Excellent Battery Life, High Quality, Tuning: Analog

Sony ICF-S10MK2 AM/FM/RDS Radio

$17.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.abt.com
it's just enough radio, with great reception for the job site,fits right in your shirt pocket..
from www.abt.com
this one does a great job picking them up clearly.
from www.amazon.com
i have used this radio on the job for 6 months and dropped it scores of times, kept on the floor of my truck,subjected it to temperature extremes and it always worked like a charm.
from www.amazon.com
it does an amazing job there since there are no strong stations in that area, and it's disappointing that i can only get good reception there and not where i live.
from www.amazon.com
i was desperately looking for that radio on the sunday of the giants-cowboys playoff game (a good friend of ours was marrying off a daughter), and had to settle for a walkman (which did a decent job,

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, High Quality, Durable, Design: Pocket

Grundig S350 AM/FM/SW Radio

$95.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.circuitcity.com
i'm not a big shortwave listener but it seems to do a respectable job there as well.
from www.amazon.com
but the grundig looks great and does a great job pulling in am and fm stations and it has more features then the ge radio including a timer which is nice and digital tunning.
from www.amazon.com
the radio has a great feel to it and its easy to tell grundig did the job right.
from www.amazon.com
it has excellent sound quality, and does a better job at "clearly" receiving stations than other radios.
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i installed it myself (which is not a job for the faint of heart, but is within the skill of anyone who's handy with a screwdriver).

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Positives: Good Battery Life, Easy To Use, Great Sound Quality, Tuning: Analog

Sony Walkman SRF-M37V AM/FM/Weather/TV Radio

$32.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i've had this handheld am/fm/tv/weatherband radio for half a year now and it gets the job done and then some!
from www.amazon.com
no it won't pull them in like my grundig s-350 or zenith transoceanic but it will get the job done better than anything else in it's class, even the sangean dt-200v which some claim has the best am
from www.amazon.com
for my limited use of this radio, it does a fine job.
from www.amazon.com
and does as good as job as i could see any radio at this price, and this size could be capable of.all of its bands, tv/weather/am/fm come in great.
from www.amazon.com
the local-distant switch does a decent job of cutting down on this kind of interference in the city without killing the stereo separation, and it works much better than the same switch did on the

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Great Battery Life, Tuning: Digital

Sony SRF-HM10 FM Radio

$33.00 Est. at Amazon

from Ed from Charlestown Indiana, www.circuitcity.com
i use this sony walkman around big medical machines that operate constantly and we all know how am reception can be in that environment but this little walkman does an excellent job!
from www.amazon.com
they do the job, but the radio is actually much better sounding than the headphones allow you to appreciate.it takes only one aa battery and it will last a very long time.
from www.amazon.com
i have used this radio on the job for 6 months and dropped it scores of times, kept on the floor of my truck,subjected it to temperature extremes and it always worked like a charm.
from www.amazon.com
i was desperately looking for that radio on the sunday of the giants-cowboys playoff game (a good friend of ours was marrying off a daughter), and had to settle for a walkman (which did a decent job,
from www.amazon.com
if you primarily listen to am talk radio, then the srf-59 will do the job nicely.

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Positives: Nice Battery Life, Inexpensive, High Quality, Tuning: Digital

Midland HH50 Radio

$22.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i was pleasantly suprised at what a good job this little (it is very small) radio does.
from www.amazon.com
sound quality isn't "great", but reception was reliable and understandable, size is very small and packable and the radio just got the job done.

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Positives: High Quality, Easy To Use, Nice Sound Quality, Design: Pocket

Crane amp; Co SNR Radio

$90.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this radio was purchased as a job radio, on construction sites.
from www.amazon.com
it was a reecom and even gave child alerts but programming was a major job.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Sound Quality, High Quality, Tuning: Digital

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