{"id":290,"date":"2011-01-01T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-03-05T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:53:34","slug":"kaito-ka1103-or-degen-de1103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/01\/kaito-ka1103-or-degen-de1103\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaito KA1103 or Degen DE1103"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_291\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KA1103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-291\" title=\"KA1103\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KA1103-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KA1103-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KA1103.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kaito KA1103 (Degen DE1103) shortwave receiver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kaito KA1103 (a.k.a. Degen DE1103) is an exceptional portable shortwave radio. Other than some strange ergonomics, this radio offers a lot of value and performance for the money. We recommend this radio on <a title=\"SWLing.com review\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/Radios.htm#KA1103\">SWLing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Specs:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>DUAL CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY<\/li>\n<li>FM:76.0-108.0 MHz ( Step 10K\/50K\/100K Hz)<\/li>\n<li>LW: 100Khz-519Khz<\/li>\n<li>MW(AM):520-1710 MHz ( Step 1K\/9K\/10K Hz)<\/li>\n<li>SW:1.711-29.99 MHz (Step 1K\/5K Hz)<\/li>\n<li>268 MEMORY PRESETS ( Dynamic memory on 19 Pages)<\/li>\n<li>Auto scan and memory (ATS), Start page preset<\/li>\n<li>ALARM \/ SLEEP<\/li>\n<li>MANUAL TUNING\/SCAN\/PRESET\/DIRECT ENTRY<\/li>\n<li>CLOCK\/SLEEP\/LOCK<\/li>\n<li>ELECTRONIC VOLUME CONTROL<\/li>\n<li>SMART CHARGER WITH COUNT DOWN TIMER<\/li>\n<li>SSB RECEIVER WITH FINE TUNING CONTROL<\/li>\n<li>METER AND FREQUENCY CONVERT<\/li>\n<li>3 KINDS OF BACKLIGHT MODE<\/li>\n<li>SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATOR<\/li>\n<li>FRONT AND REAR POWER OUTPUT FOR BOTH SPEAKER AND EARPHONE<\/li>\n<li>SUPER BASS SELECTION<\/li>\n<li>3 ALARMMS FOR ON\/OFF<\/li>\n<li>TWO ALARM MODES: BEEPER AND RADIO<\/li>\n<li>AUTO RESET FUNCTION ,NEVER DEAD LOCKED<\/li>\n<li>EXTRA LONG TELESCOPIC ANTENNA FOR RECEPTION<\/li>\n<li>EXIT BUTTON FOR WRONG KEY IN.<\/li>\n<li>DX\/LOCAL SELECT FOR SHORTWAVE RECEPTION<\/li>\n<li>MONO \/ STEREO SELECTABLE<\/li>\n<li>TONE SELECT: MUSIC AND NEWS<\/li>\n<li>BATTERY POWER INDICATOR<\/li>\n<li>BATTERY CHARGE<\/li>\n<li>AUTO BACKLIGHT SCREEN<\/li>\n<li>LOCAL \/ DX SWITCH<\/li>\n<li>LINE OUT JACK<\/li>\n<li>BUILT-IN SPEAKER:D77MM<\/li>\n<li>EXTERNAL ANTENNA JACK<\/li>\n<li>Radio actual size: 165 X 105 X 28.50 mm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Kaito\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaitousa.com\/KA1103.htm\">Manufacturer&#8217;s Product Page &#8211; Kaito KA1103<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reviews\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Eham.net reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/detail\/5071\">Eham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Radio Intel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiointel.com\/review-etone5.htm\">Radio Intel (E5 review)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"N9EWO\" href=\"http:\/\/n9ewo.angelfire.com\/de1103.html\">N9EWO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Monitoring Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.monitoringtimes.com\/mtfirstlook-kaito1103-2.pdf\">Monitoring Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Retailers\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Universal Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universal-radio.com\/catalog\/portable\/0028.html\">Universal Radio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0006OCEFY\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0006OCEFY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=swlcom01-20\">Search Amazon.com for the Kaito KA1103.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=swlcom01-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0006OCEFY\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaito KA1103 (a.k.a. Degen DE1103) is an exceptional portable shortwave radio. Other than some strange ergonomics, this radio offers a lot of value and performance for the money. We recommend this radio on SWLing.com. Specs: DUAL CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY FM:76.0-108.0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/01\/kaito-ka1103-or-degen-de1103\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[89,43,18],"tags":[342,560,340,344,341,556,339,343],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-degen","category-kaito","category-portables","tag-de1103","tag-degen","tag-degen-de1103","tag-degen-de1103-reviews","tag-ka1103","tag-kaito","tag-kaito-ka1103","tag-kaito-ka1103-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f4Ph-4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}