Transistor radios are great in a crisis - cheap devices on comeback trail after PM's comments

[Catoni]

3 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

you are wrong from end to start and from start to end and from middle to start.

 

I got satellite emergency signals regardless if my phone gets a signal.

 

u gotta get with the 19th century, bro.   batteries are so 1000 BC

 

transistor radios have tik tok?  no!!!

 

smartphones are the future......   even my iphone watch will work!!!!    will call 911, do everything....   radios and batteries???? hahahahhahahahahhahahahahaha

What will you do if cell and Wi-Fi and TV signal get knocked out?  Where will you get your information from? 
  Your iPhone ends up being an expensive paperweight. 

[jacko45k]

3 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

you are wrong from end to start and from start to end and from middle to start.

I think a lot of disaster plans were developed during the early cold war and have not been updated! Tins of tuna, batteries and gas masks!

[sirhowie]

Quite simples you can buy wind up radios that don’t need battery replacing they are about £10 in uk

[KannikaP]

3 hours ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

Who needs batteries?

 

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This was invented by the Englishman Trevor Bayliss way back in 1991, called the Baygen.

[Bangkok Barry]

5 hours ago, Robin said:

Including power to the transmitter? 

Just the usual Thai one-step thinking. Yet again an example of being unable to link the dots, and realise that to receive information there must be the ability to broadcast it. Pathetic.

[rwill]

Back to Thailand 1.0

[Surasak]

One dinosaur promoting another. Pigeons of course are another matter, unless someone fancies a pigeon pie. 

[Iamfalang]

1 hour ago, Catoni said:

What will you do if cell and Wi-Fi and TV signal get knocked out?  Where will you get your information from? 
  Your iPhone ends up being an expensive paperweight

You mean like an EMP?   lol

 

I've been in countless crises and I've never ONCE asked myself, "Where is the transistor radio?"    Now, if this was pre 1990, then OK........but it's not.   

 

If all the wi-fi and TV signals get "knocked out," we have much bigger problems then finding some Double D's......................................Double D batteries that is.  lol

[Photoguy21]

1 hour ago, Catoni said:

  There is more than just one transmitter.  I receive all kinds of stations on a.m./f.m./s.w. 

True but that doesn't mean you have the sensitivity within the radio to detect all of the bands (but probably would have) or that all the bands are actually being transmitted.

[Golden Triangle]

I have a DAB/ radio I brought from the UK when I moved here, it sits in a drawer with the batteries next to it (not connected) very handy when the power goes out, which these days is not often TBH, but when it does I can fire it up and tune into the local FM station till the power comes back on. 

 

 

[Dont confuse me]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Prauyth feels that radios can get the message across in the event of natural disasters that may leave other means of communication useless or lacking.

He's right about that! The natural disaster of him coming to power was broadcast over the radio amongst other outlets!

[RichardColeman]

Sure most of us Brits will remember this....Maybe the PM should watch it.

 

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, d2b2 said:

I wanted to send the PM my thoughts on the matter, but my FAX machine seems to have stopped working.

Schools out this week for a month.

Should be no shortage of boy scouts with forked sticks...

 

Now there is a comms solution he could understand!

[herfiehandbag]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

This was invented by the Englishman Trevor Bayliss way back in 1991, called the Baygen.

He did some great work in his garden shed...

 

Mind you way before then in the late 70s when the British Army introduced the "Clansman" radio system there was a similar gadget you could attach to your manpack radio for when the radio batteries went down.

 

Mind you, walking close behind a bloke carrying a radio, turning a handle attached to him was quite likely to attract the attention of the enemy, whether it was a steely eye, lean, mean killer of a sniper, or a couple of spotty hooligans with a brick in West Belfast!

 

 

[Lancelot01]

5 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Wrong from start to end.

You want to rely on mobile gadgets and internet?

Maybe you should check with your home country disaster plans/offices?

Batteries and radio on every list.

 

 

And who controls the radio stations?. BB 1984

[PETERTHEEATER]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

the owner, had sold two transistors for 450 baht each yesterday.

THb 900 for two transistors. Admittedly, they are rare since Integrated Circuits came into use. How much for a fully assembled radio receiver?.......????

[gravity101]

2 hours ago, alekth85 said:

Radios (including CB) are used in cases of disasters all  over the world. I know people can't resist an opportunity to bash Prayut, and he deserves it more often than not, but using radios in case of "emergencies" is the way to go.

 

It's been used regularly in hurricane affected areas when the electricity / internet are down.

 

 

Isn't the bashing because he used the passe term transister radio. Everyone who has a car has a radio so it's hardly prehistoric.  Where else will I enjoy my 6pm national anthem.

[PETERTHEEATER]

7 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Never seen any with solar panels on them?

 

I think if the Sun goes out, you won't need a radio anymore.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them......????

[DD86]

7 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

you are wrong from end to start and from start to end and from middle to start.

 

I got satellite emergency signals regardless if my phone gets a signal.

 

u gotta get with the 19th century, bro.   batteries are so 1000 BC

 

transistor radios have tik tok?  no!!!

 

smartphones are the future......   even my iphone watch will work!!!!    will call 911, do everything....   radios and batteries???? hahahahhahahahahhahahahahaha

You are so hackable.

[cowellandrew]

My mother inlaw has her transistor on every morning 

Tuned to Radio ga ga!

 

[SunsetT]

I love to listen to my DAB rechargeable DAB radio/bluetooth speaker all the time in the UK. will that still work when all hell lets loose with Putin and/or Xi and the 1st thing to go down internationally will be the internet?

[BTB1977]

Pull thailand back to the dark ages.  Great idea.  

[simon43]

As others have said, radio is the main stay of communication after a national disaster, because it is a relatively simple and reliable way to communicate. The USA and other countries rely on radio amateurs to provide this 'when all else fails' service. I use my ham radio rig in Thailand to provide an emergency email-by-radio service (winlink and pskmail).

[tomazbodner]

8 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

Wouldnt matter if you had if the transmitter is down you wont get anything.

True. If I was dead it wouldn't help me much, either...

[chickenslegs]

Saw a radio for sale for 50 Baht, with a broken volume control. I couldn’t turn it down.

[Bday Prang]

8 hours ago, Catoni said:

  I’ve always had a few a.m./f.m./s.w. transistor radios around.  Using Eveready Lithium AA batteries.   And I have always kept several sets of extra batteries.  My radios can run for months on and off, on a set of batteries.  
   Also receiving shortwave..they can pick up signals around the world. Especially if you connect an extra 20 or 30 feet of wire to the antenna, or plug an extension antenna in. 
    Kaito KA1102.  And Eton E100    Great little radios. And the Kaito also gets single side band (SSB) on shortwave.  They don’t make them anymore unfortunately.  I keep mine in protective zipper cases that fit them snuggly.  They’re like brand new. 
   Absolutely a great source of information in the event of disaster. 

do you have a fully fitted out underground bunker yet?

[Bday Prang]

"For just a few hundred baht they make great presents so that the aged can listen to music and the lottery while in the fields as well as get important emergency information if necessary."

 

Whilst their bone idle offspring lie in hammocks all day  either drunk or playing on their smartphones waiting for their mother to come home so they can be fed

[Bday Prang]

6 hours ago, Lancelot01 said:

And who controls the radio stations?. BB 1984

Exactly when it next  happens they will kill the tv and internet and block all the radio channels except Radio 2   lol Radio too  oh forget it  

[it is what it is]

12 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

you are wrong from end to start and from start to end and from middle to start.

 

I got satellite emergency signals regardless if my phone gets a signal.

 

u gotta get with the 19th century, bro.   batteries are so 1000 BC

 

transistor radios have tik tok?  no!!!

 

smartphones are the future......   even my iphone watch will work!!!!    will call 911, do everything....   radios and batteries???? hahahahhahahahahhahahahahaha

u gotta get with the 19th century, bro.   batteries are so 1000 BC

 

erm... so what powers your smartphone?

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 hours ago, simon43 said:

As others have said, radio is the main stay of communication after a national disaster, because it is a relatively simple and reliable way to communicate. The USA and other countries rely on radio amateurs to provide this 'when all else fails' service. I use my ham radio rig in Thailand to provide an emergency email-by-radio service (winlink and pskmail).

That is reassuring to know .

If there's a nuclear war and most of the World gets wiped out and there's just a few human beings left, I will be able to switch my radio on and listen to Simon giving science lessons from Burma  on the radio