{"id":19584,"date":"2016-07-14T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19584"},"modified":"2016-07-02T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:35:34","slug":"the-onemi-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-onemi-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The ONEMI Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ONEMIRadio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19586\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ONEMIRadio.jpg\" alt=\"ONEMIRadio\" width=\"800\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ONEMIRadio.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ONEMIRadio-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ONEMIRadio-768x376.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ONEMIRadio-624x306.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chile is one of the most seismically-active countries in the world. The ONEMI (Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior)&#8211;Chile&#8217;s emergency management office&#8211;recently added a a new tool to Earthquake kits Chilean families keep at hand.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a foldable, flat-packed, solar-powered cardboard FM radio called the ONEMI Radio. It has a very simple design and interface: a volume control and tuning button that auto-tunes local FM stations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0a cheap, portable and efficient solution that can enable Chilean emergency management to communicate advice during state of emergencies. Clever!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the following video:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KAxpQAdVkvE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KAxpQAdVkvE\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile is one of the most seismically-active countries in the world. The ONEMI (Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior)&#8211;Chile&#8217;s emergency management office&#8211;recently added a a new tool to Earthquake kits Chilean families keep at hand. It&#8217;s a foldable, flat-packed, solar-powered cardboard FM radio called the ONEMI Radio. It has a very simple design [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,836,3],"tags":[5198,1584,219,5197],"class_list":["post-19584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-new-products","category-news","tag-chile","tag-fm","tag-humanitarian-radio","tag-onemi-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-55S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62300,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/blackout-in-chile-a-reminder-of-radios-role-when-all-else-fails\/","url_meta":{"origin":19584,"position":0},"title":"Blackout in Chile: A Reminder of Radio\u2019s Role When All Else Fails","author":"Thomas","date":"March 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWling Post contributor Carlos Latuff, who writes: Good morning, Thomas. 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