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There several areas that makes this is bad emergency radio: 1) The Crank Power device is very weak: I charged manually for two minutes, according to the instructions. The power lasted for 3 minutes. I charged again for two minutes and the power lasted for less than one minute. 2) The solar panel charge the battery, in their words "at a very slow rate". They continue, in their instructions: "it is better to crank it to charge the battery". Just imagine how slow is the solar panel. 3) The shortwave radio reception is almost non-existent. Since this is an emergency radio, the SW reception is very important. 4) They offer to give Amazon customer a free SW antenna is we submit a review. This antenna should have been included with the radio. So, this radio goes back and I will look for something better