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It's impossible to know when an emergency situation will arise, so the smart move is always to have an emergency radio in your kit. RV, camping, or just in case, the SANGEAN MMR-99 Emergency Weather Radio is just jammed with great features and capabilities, notably including a solar charging panel, a hand crank, and a full 7-band NOAA weather radio tuner, along with AM/FM (with RDS)/Bluetooth/AUX. What most surprised tech expert Dave Taylor when reviewing the SANGEAN MMR-99 was that it actually sounds really good too, making it a pleasure to use for music too.
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This weather radio has tons of features. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is very cool. This is the Shanzhen MMR99 Emergency Weather Radio
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and it has a ton of features. Now, first off, it has solar on the top so you can charge this with the solar panel
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So if you completely run out of power and you have no electricity
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you can just leave it out in the sun. Not enough. It also has a dynamo on the back so you can actually crank it to get some
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emergency power if you really need to hear that emergency broadcast. And it does weather. So it does all seven of the NOAA
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the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather channels, and it does weather alerts and it's AM FM with auto scan
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And of course it's a modern FM radio. So it works with RBDS
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which is the radio broadcast data system, which means it will be able to show you the name of the channel
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Sometimes depending on channel, it will show you the category of the channel
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It might even show you the name of the song it's playing. It's pretty cool stuff. If you've still mired in the ancient world of FM radio
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modern FM does some pretty slick little tricks like that. Now it also has a five feature flashlight
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So let's turn the flashlight on and I can step through the different flashlight
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modes and there's actually two modes cause I can also go to sort of a dimmer
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version of those and there's an emergency. So yeah, I think I have to turn it off first
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There we go. And you can hear it's a soft alarm, but I think you can turn the volume up. There we go
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So if you were out hunting or something and you had a problem
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this is one way to actually get people's attention and it gets louder over time
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So let's turn that off cause that's a little annoying and the flashlight's off
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So if nothing else, this is a solar powered flashlight, which is also really cool
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But a lot of the interesting functionality is the radio. So let's go ahead and I'm going to extend the antenna kind of old school
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but you need an antenna for AM and FM. So I'm going to turn it on and we're going to start with the weather channel
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And the way it works is there's seven different weather channels and you want
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to find the one that's for your region and in there big complex instructions
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They actually tell you how to figure out which one is for your region. That's important. And so I can just listen to the weather forecast
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Or I can switch or tap on the band button. I can go to Bluetooth. All right
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we'll do that. My phone's already paired. So now maybe get a little further in this music
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And here's one thing that really surprised me about this is it sounds really
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good. In fact, it will surprise the heck out of you how nice the sound is for something of this
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style. Because generally with these sort of things, let me turn that volume back down. Generally speaking
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they don't sound that great, but this one actually does a good job. It even has bass, which is pretty remarkable. Now let's pause that
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So that's a Bluetooth and I can go to auxiliary in, I'll show you that in a second. And then here's FM
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and I think this is an NPR radio show. And then I can go AM
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And of course, AM radio is all about talk. That's pretty much all that's on it now
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Oh, in fact, that's actually about the Bible. So let's turn that off
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So those are your basic cycles. And let me give you a closeup on the front
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So you can see, so it has AM, FM with that RBDS
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Like I said, it has weather channels, it has Bluetooth and it has auxiliary in
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All of that's really great. You might not need to extend your antenna depending on what you want to listen
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to. But again, this is also one way to look at this
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is it's a solar powered Bluetooth speaker. So that's pretty cool too
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Now it has all the buttons on the front and it has five memory buttons
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So you can actually just store favorite channels regardless of what band they're
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in. That can be very helpful and volume and tuning. And then when you look on the top
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that's where you have those flashlight controls and that's easy enough to work
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with. And then on this side, there are four hidden ports. And if I open them up and give you this closeup
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you can see that on the right side, those are two 3.5 millimeter jacks
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One is for audio in and one is for audio out in other words
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headphones or earbuds. And then on the left side, you have DC in if you want to charge it via direct power and that's just a USB-C
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cable. And that's in fact what I did when I first got it. I plugged in the included USB-C cable and that's USB-C to USB-A
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plugged it in and let it just charge for some period of time
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So it got full power, full battery. It has a nice battery indicator
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very helpful. And then it was all ready to go. And then finally on the other side
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there's one more port because there's also a power out. So if you need to charge your phone
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you can use this battery's power to charge your phone. So again
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solar, hand crank, power out, phone charging, Bluetooth. I mean, like I said, it does a lot of stuff
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It's pretty darn sweet. It also has automatic power off and it also has the ability for you to set
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alarms and have a sleep timer. Finally, it is IP55 dustproof and waterproof so you can't have it fall in the lake and
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fish it out three weeks later and have it be fine. That's probably a little bit too much
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but you can certainly be out with it if you're backpacking or camping and you
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leave it on your table and it rains that night. Yeah, that's okay
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It's not going to bother it at all. So that's why there's these like heavy duty covers on all the ports too
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So all of that, it's really one of the best devices I've seen in this category
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I'm a real fan. I've been a fan of Sanjin for a really long time
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I remember having some of their radios honestly like 30 years ago and they have
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been making this stuff their next year is their 50th anniversary of making
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weather radios and AM, FM, mid, um, broadband and all this sort of stuff
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They really have a wide variety of products that they make, which is great
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They have a ton of experience with this. And as you can see, this is a tough rugged unit with really nice, big visible buttons
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It's really easy to work with. The sound is better than you're going to expect
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Even with me telling you, it sounds good. If you get one of these, you'll still say, wow, Dave was actually kind of understaffed stating that it
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really sounds good. And here's a cool thing it's doing. It's showing me the time because when I went to an FM station that was using
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that RDS or RBDS, it picked up time from that radio station and then set its own internal time
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So now it's also doing clock features without me ever having to hassle with it
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which is great. So in the box, it also includes that USB charging cable
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It includes a nice little handle easily to clipped on here and it includes what
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have to be really some of the largest instructions, but it is organized. It is in multiple languages. Um
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I'm always curious how they actually do that first fold after they print this
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sheet, but somewhere there's a machine that's very precise with this and that's
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good. So that's really everything I have dimensions wise. It's eight inches by three and a half inches by four and a half inches
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And it's about two pounds. It's fairly heavy, but a lot of that is that battery and the speaker
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Both of those add up to a lot of weight, cool circuitry, great features
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Let's talk about the price. But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you would be so kind as to subscribe to my channel
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Really appreciate when you do that. Sweet. Now this is the Shonjin MMR 99 emergency weather radio
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Turn up, lift up the antenna and it, it comes in desert tan or this is forest green
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which I prefer of the two colors and it's 149.99 at amazon.com
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That might sound a little expensive for an AM FM weather radio, but if you think about all the features this has
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this is exactly the kind of device you want to have for those really bad
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periods when your house loses power and you don't know when you're going to get
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it back or when you're out and you're in your RV and you really just want to
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make sure you stay connected regardless of what dire things occur. This is what you want. You're going to pull this out of your storage kit
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You're going to take this out of your basement, stick it in the sun for a couple hours if you need to
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or get one of your kids to crank it for a few minutes and you're going to be set
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and ready to go. Real good one. Definitely a keeper here. So that's all I got. So I'll have to catch you in my next video
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Bye
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