DEGEN DE13 Cranked Solar FM AM SW Receiver with Flashlight/SOS alarm/rechargeable cell phone for emergency and outdoor use (green)

The radio arrived quickly after ordering and was packaged well. It is very compact considering all the features that it has. Build quality is good given what it cost. It does not get moved around much as I bought it mainly to listen to the radio while working in garage and garden. As a result, I cannot say how it would cope if you were to be using it for camping, etc and carrying it in a rucksack as the aerial may catch on things and is a little flimsy. Easy to operate and the radio is loud and clear enough for what I use it for. I was surprised at how loud it was given the small speaker that it has. Like the fact that it has AM/FM and SW bands. Can always find something to listen to. The torch facility has been useful to have around the garage. Can be powered by cranking and charging the internal battery, solar or 3 AAA batteries. The crank mechanism is smooth but not too sturdy. It will charge the internal battery with little effort. Cannot comment on how useful it would be to charge a phone. Do not know how efficient the solar panel is as it does not get much exposure to sunlight. AAA batteries appear to last well given the amount of time I use it. Please note that the internal battery is not installed when it arrives and you have to attach it yourself. It is awkward to plug it in. I used a small set of tweezers to get the plug into position as my fingers were too big to get into the small battery compartment. Fiddly but not impossible to do. Just take your time. Overall , a good little radio which does the job and which represents good value for money.

Not just for emergancys, I won't lie I've purchased this as we're as close to Nuclear war right now (03.03.22) since the Cuban blockade. Right, the radios reciption is excellent, and quality of sound for a small radio is more than adequate, and goes quite loud. Build quality is very nice, the dial wheel for scanning the wavelengths is smooth and picks up faint stations, like on SW. USB Slots, earpiece 3.5mm jackplug. The Torch is nice and bright and has two modes, white light, and a single red center flashing light, good for letting others see your position, plus an alarm sound too, all good saftey features. But where it excels is the ways you can power it. Place 3 AAA recharbles in and you can solar charge or use the hand crank handle to charge via its dynamo, plus it has a built in power pack which also is chargeable, so all areas are covered so the unit will always have power, a big must I'm hoping not to put to the test, and hopefully when it finishes, I'll have a nice little radio that can go anywhere. I'd only say take care with the FM Aerial, it's thin and wouldn't take much to break it, but any radio this size would be the same, so it's not a fault. I would recommend this little radio 100%, its well made, nice simple analog Tuner, tons of features which work superbly, it'll even charge your phone, but I haven't tried it yet, but even if you only gave it 10 or 20%, that's the difference between being able to use your phone and not. This purchase was a no brainer, you wont be dissapointed!

Arrived well packaged & within timescale stated. Supplied rechargeable battery pack disconnected for transport, slightly fiddly to connect if you have big fingers but once you work out a technique no problem. All functions work well. Charges from solar (checked with multimeter) & crank. Managed to put some charge in an Alcatel 3088 feature phone & an Alcatel 1B with the crank. As stated will probably give enough charge for an emergency call but don't expect it to fully charge your phone from flat if it has a large battery cappacity. Good signal on SW at night (picks up Radio Exterior de España, Radio Romania International, CGTN (China), BBC World Service) & several other overseas stations when conditions in ionosphere are suitable. Can be boosted with a home made longwire antenna, if desired, clipped onto existing whip antenna. Speaker adequate for a radio of this size & cost. Have heard worse from more expensive radios. FM good quality, MW acceptable. Price has doubled since purchase, otherwise I would have purchased another. Update 14/04/23: After several months of use I found a couple of weak points. The roatating knob on the crank handle came off. It is just fitted to two small, sprung, plastic lugs which broke. My dad reattached it with a bolt and nut. The whip antenna also went loose and I had to remove the screw and squeeze the attachment lugs closer together. The main funtions of the radio continue to work well but Degen could improve the build quality of moving plastic attachment parts as they could fail in an emergency situation.

The radio itself does not work out of the box. You need to connect the user-accessible battery pack (very nice!) or insert 3 AAA batteries before you can operate it. Plugging in the battery pack is a little fiddly, so do this right away when you unpack it. The plastic and manufacturing tolerances don't feel great and somewhat flimsy. The dirt flap on the side also does not fit very snug so don't expect a lot of water resistance. For an emergency style radio it could really do with just a bit better construction. The radio itself does work great. I can even receive US channels from Western Europe in the evening on the SW! A major downside though is that the tuning mutes while changing the frequency. This prevents the user scanning reception by ear on the SW. The FM tuner works fine like this with the volume output being constant. The flashlight on the device is OK in a pinch.

Love this crank Radio No batteries just crank it a few minutes and you will get service for some time everyone should have a couple of these.

Excellent appareil, je recharge facilement au soleil bien dule bonne qualité de son vu la taille petite de cet appareil, excellente réception des ondes pas de parasite pas de bruit de fou je conseille l'acquisition de cet appareil

Awesome little radio. Much smaller then I expected but its a nice little unit. It has good reception and brings stations in loud and clear. It charges well from either the solar panel or the crank handle. Well worth the price.

Me dá aspecto de calidad, dentro de lo que cabe en su precio. Compacta y pesada ( bién ). La calidad de sonido de la radio me ha sorprendido. Muy bién en este aspecto. Coge las emisoras de forma correcta. Muchas opciones de carga, por lo que en caso de emergencia total, siempre te dá más libertad. Viene con la bateria propia desconectada, así que no os olvideis de abrir su compartimento y conectarla ( muy fácil ). En resumen, creo que es una buena compra, y más en estos tiempos que corren. Vá bién tener un artículo de estos en caso de emergencia. Ó por supuesto simplemente escuchar la radio, jeje. Muy recomendable.