{"id":1338,"date":"2011-07-17T14:28:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2011-07-17T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:28:36","slug":"kaito-ka600-self-powered-emergency-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/kaito-ka600-self-powered-emergency-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kaito KA600 Voyager Pro self-powered emergency radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1340\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/KaitoKA600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1340\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1340 \" title=\"KaitoKA600\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/KaitoKA600-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/KaitoKA600-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/KaitoKA600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kaito KA600 self-powered radio has direct keypad entry of frequencies--a unique feature in this product niche.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Universal Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universal-radio.com\/catalog\/portable\/5656.html\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Radio<\/a> has started selling the new <a title=\"SWRI\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/07\/kaito-ka600-voyager-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaito KA600\u00a0Voyager Pro<\/a> self-powered shortwave radio. \u00a0Two features really set this radio apart in the self-powered market:\u00a0<a title=\"What is RDS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Data_System\" target=\"_blank\">RDS<\/a> and the ability to enter a frequency via direct keypad entry. I know of no other mass-produced unit that can do this.<\/p>\n<p>We have made an entry for the <a title=\"SWRI entry for the KA600\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/07\/kaito-ka600-voyager-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\">KA600 in the Shortwave Radio Index<\/a> where we will post updates and reviews of this model as they are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Radio has started selling the new Kaito KA600\u00a0Voyager Pro self-powered shortwave radio. \u00a0Two features really set this radio apart in the self-powered market:\u00a0RDS and the ability to enter a frequency via direct keypad entry. I know of no other mass-produced unit that can do this. We have made an entry for the KA600 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[467,466,468,280,58],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","tag-ka600","tag-kaito-ka600","tag-kaito-usa","tag-self-powered-radios","tag-universal-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-lA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8996,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/mehmet-burk-reviews-the-kaito-ka500-self-powered-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":1338,"position":0},"title":"Mehmet Burk reviews the Kaito KA550 self-powered radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Mehmet Burk of ReliefAnalysis.com\u00a0for sharing his most positive review of the Kaito KA550\u00a0self-powered shortwave radio. 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Apologies!] Click here to read his full review: http:\/\/www.reliefanalysis.com\/2014\/03\/review-katio-ka550-terrific.html The Kaito KA550 currently\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"kaito-ka550","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kaito-ka550-1024x884.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kaito-ka550-1024x884.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kaito-ka550-1024x884.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":810,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/review-of-the-kaito-ka-500-self-powered-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":1338,"position":1},"title":"Review of the Kaito KA 500 Self-Powered Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"December 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I tested the KA500 along with several other self-powered radios for a project I'm working on in Africa. 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Here's Universal Radio's description: The Kaito KA108 is a great AM, FM shortwave receiver with a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Kaito-KA108","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Kaito-KA108.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}