{"id":8996,"date":"2014-03-18T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2014-03-18T21:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T01:48:57","slug":"mehmet-burk-reviews-the-kaito-ka500-self-powered-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/mehmet-burk-reviews-the-kaito-ka500-self-powered-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehmet Burk reviews the Kaito KA550 self-powered radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to Mehmet Burk of ReliefAnalysis.com<\/a>\u00a0for sharing his most positive review of the Kaito KA550<\/a>\"\"\u00a0self-powered shortwave radio.<\/p>\n

[Note: I’ve updated this post to link to the Kaito\u00a0KA550. <\/em>I initially linked to the older KA500 by mistake. Apologies!]<\/p>\n

Click here to read his full review:<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.reliefanalysis.com\/2014\/03\/review-katio-ka550-terrific.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kaito KA550 currently retails for about $59.00 US shipped.<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Mehmet Burk of ReliefAnalysis.com\u00a0for sharing his most positive review of the Kaito KA550\u00a0self-powered shortwave radio. [Note: I’ve updated this post to link to the Kaito\u00a0KA550. I initially linked to the older KA500 by mistake. Apologies!] Click here to read his full review: http:\/\/www.reliefanalysis.com\/2014\/03\/review-katio-ka550-terrific.html The Kaito KA550 currently retails for about $59.00 US […]<\/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":[3,26,129,43],"tags":[2660,1512,279,2659,280,4086],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ka500","tag-kaito","tag-kaito-ka500","tag-kaito-ka500-review","tag-self-powered-radios","tag-shortwave-radio-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2l6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":810,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/review-of-the-kaito-ka-500-self-powered-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":8996,"position":0},"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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