The Kaito 1101, since "replaced" by the Kaito 1102 and, even more recently, the Kaito 1103, differs only in small ways. The volume control is a spin dial, no buttons, but beyond that it's the same radio. In fact at this time in LA I can get the weak 103.1 FM on my Kaito 1101 but I can't get it in very well on my Kaito 1102, leading me to reconcile that quality control tends to bring variability. I've also heard from friends in the radio industry that the 1103, which gets stuck in certain frequency zones, is a pain in the [...] to use. So for a small PLL synthesized dual-conversion radio, you're getting top quality for half the price in the Kaito 1101. If size isn't a thing and you don't call for presets, you'll get even greater reception with the Tecsun BLC 2000, which is a superior version of its more expensive, bug-plagued clone, the Grundig S350. But for portability and presets, the Kaito 1101 is the best of its kind, better, for develop, than the more expensive Sangean 505 and 606, and just as good as the more expensive Sony 7600.Post Script: I subsequently purchased the Kaito 1103, which has even more outstanding FM sensitivity than the very impressive 1101. However, the 1103 costs about 40 dollars more and is more difficult to operate.
- M. JEFFREY MCMAHON "herculodge"
I was in the market for a small portable shortwave telephone logic, and after doing consideral research I decided to approve of this item. It twisted out to be a great scale. It is very sensitive on FM and SW just be fond of all the reviews confirmed. Though it got just an OK review on AM sensitivity. I found this to be a very sensitive AM telephone logic. I pick of the litter up a telephone logic station in Cleveland OH at nighttime, Cleveland is about 500 miles away starting me. Another reason I chose this telephone logic is because all the reviews kept mentioning how intricate the Kaito KA 1102 and 1103 were. The KA 1101 is a snap to aid. Memory presets are straightforward to fit up. There are 10 presets per band. Choose your band ie AM/FM/FML/SW1/SW2 secure the memory button and then pick of the litter a specific numer 1-9. That's it. Unadorned. I have no idea why a name would display that they could possibly not figure it out and gave it a 1 star rating. Construction is also very good, I had a little conundrum dying the battery door, save for it was insignificant. Put the rechargeable batteries in(included) Charge them and you don't have to keep notch the battery compartment. They charge in the telephone logic via the included AC adapter/mount. Outstanding telephone logic for the fee. It's size, which I was looking for makes it an ideal travel telephone logic. Approve of the Kaito KA 1101 if your looking for a feature, straightforward to aid telephone logic. Release drawback is that it does not have SSB.
- Ascia1963
I bought the Kaito 1101 in Distinguished 2005, and found that it played adequately, if unexceptionally. Signal and sensitivity were decent, but not better. The user interface is unintuitive and the manual near incomprehensible, even if that didn't bother me much. My at the start problem was that the radio refused to charge up the rechargeable batteries that come with it. A call to Kaito yielded this advice: use a dedicated battery mount. The 1101 is able to keep batteries charged up once they have an initial charge, I was told, but is unable to charge batteries that have zero charge. So I used a separate mount, and this seemed to work, even if I found it odd that they would sell a radio that is advertised to charge its batteries but is incapable of responsibility so. And even with they are charged the batteries run down very fast. With about ten months, the radio simply refused to play, even using AC contemporary. Since it was soothe under warranty, I shipped it back and received a replacement radio. Three months later (just additional than the one-year warranty period) the replacement radio failed in just so the same way -- it simply bunged producing any signal on any of its bands. I have now decided that it's compost time for this cut of junk, and time to get a radio that works. In 2006, how hard can it be to make a decent radio?
- Marc Cohen
With enjoying the superb greeting on the Kaito 1103 but not enjoying the deactivate-intuitive control buttons, I decided to invest in the Kaito 1101 since of the exceptional reviews. Here is my comparison:Regard: The 1101 is an incredible regard. This is a lot of radio for the price. The 1103 is well worth its cost but the 1103 has more features.Signal: The 1103 wins, hands down, with its larger lecturer and fuller signal. The 1101 is good but following-rate sounding to the 1103.Ease of use: Yikes! How can Kaito get so much aptly with greeting and so much wrong with ergonomics? The 1103 has the least intutive volume control of any radio I have ever seen. The 1101 has the dial volume control aptly below the moving belt - it is nearly impossible not to get trapped up with one when by the other. The power pin on the 1101 is near the median of the front panel - not on the far aptly where you would expect to find it. Try fiddling for it without looking. The moving belt is on the top aptly - bad scale. The ac partaking is on the aptly side - must be on the left. These radios are so deactivate-intuitive to use. That is so sad since they have splendid greeting:Greeting: This is where Kaito excels. Splendid FM, above average AM, Splendid Shortwave. These radios are hot receivers! The 1101 is very near to the 1103 as far as greeting goes. I do detect a affront improvement in the 1103 but not enough to make much of a variation for the user.Which one must you get? The 1101 is smaller and more compact and is about 40$ less than the 1103. The 1103 has better signal. Any way, you are vacant to have to deal with the bizarre but insignificant tuning. volume, preset, ergonomics issues. Well worth the price but may be frustrating to someone who just wants to turn it on and take note. The blue-collar is in poor English that barely makes implication but you can figur eit all out in about 15 outline if you are patient.
- Ingalls
Kaito KA1101 - Worldband radioBottom lines first: I am neither audiophile nor shortwaver/DXer, rather someone who wanted a decent-sounding, easy-to-operate, small-as-possible radio for FM and AM news and music broadcasts, albeit with an eye headed for dabbling in shortwave to see if there was enough there to develop a semi-serious interest in. I did a lot of research, including reading around extensively in Passport to World Band Radio, the bible of this activity, and other online sites. Based on what I read, the KA1101 delivered the best performance for the buck, and it offered excellent reception in all bands, including world band. So I figured that even if the shortwave thing didn't pan out that I would still have a solid FM/AM radio.After a month of use, I can say that the KA1101 is a superb little package, one that lived up to, or exceeded, every expectation. FM reception is outstanding, ditto AM reception. Every station, even the tricky to get local all-classical station, occur in clear and clean and crisp. As for signal, well it's not Bose, but for such a tiny lecturer it's really pretty impressive, and the stereo signal through the earpieces that occur with the radio is not bad at all.As for shortwave, I've played around with it just using the built-in retractable antenna and managed to get quite a few broadcasts, mainly in the evening and mainly on the 49 meter (5800-6200 or so) range: Radio Netherlands, Radio Habana, approximately odd music, a UFO government conspiracy station, 10 minutes of Bob Dylan, a reading from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", a discussion of a "colon-cleansing Holy tea", assorted news/culture/music bits. It's kinda fun, though from what I understand, we on the west coast are at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to shortwave reception. Outside the 49 meter band, the pickings have been slim, but I do latch onto something worth a few minutes of listening time now and then. Keep in mind, I have no expertise at this time and am just flipping around to see what I occur up with. I'm sure that SW reception would improve, perhaps significantly, with an external antenna, but I'm not quite there yet. In the interim, shortwaving in the evening using just the built-in has so far been an enjoyable little adventure. And I can carry the radio around with me in the daylight and evening, then put it down wherever I end up by using the flip-down stand on the backside.What else? The build quality is quite good, the whole package having a well-made, solid feel to it. The buttons are signal and "clicky" (you never have to guess whether you've pushed one) and I like the positioning of the turning up and down buttons that are arranged in a little semi-group in the lower aptly hand confront and, for me, seem perfectly positioned for using my thumb on when I am holding the radio. Plenty of presets with 10 per band (and totally easy to use), easy direct access, Large and Narrow band switch to use for difficult to tune-in stations. Everything about operating this radio is intuitive and quickly mastered. The retractable antenna seems a bit fragile, and I did manage to break rancid the tip by apparently approaching back down when it wasn't perfectly straight (phoned KaitoUsa and for $10 they are sending me a replacement).Last week, I bought a pair of Sennheiser 202 headphones and have to say that using these is a HUGE improvement in stereo signal quality, almost a concert hall signal when listening to classical music. Greatly superior to the ear buds that occur with the radio.No matter how long I charge the NiMH batteries, the logo always shows only 2/3 full, but from other reports I've read this is apparently the norm for this radio. Whatever, almost a month later and they are still running on the initial charge, this on 1+ hours of use per day.All in all, this has to be the best AM/FM/SW package out there ($52.95 is what I paid through amazon which routed the sale frankly through KaitoUSA in Monclair, CA).
- Douglas C. Rennie "Rainguy"
Very impt. The 1101 does not have SSB getting capability.The 1102 does.So in that watch it is a very uncommon telephone logic for persons who want to hear Ham telephone logic.
- Edward Richardson
The Kaito KA1101 is worth compelling time to urge. I was specifically in the promote for the smallest available AM/FM/SW receiver including feature performance mainly in the SW bands. The consensus of addict reviews articulated favorable ratings of this element, flush as stuck-up to its siblings---the extra pricey KA1102 and KA1103 (when comparing capabilities annotation including the intention of the KA1101 does not pocket in SSB while its stablemates do). The Amazon purchase fee (April 2008) for the KA1101 was $59.95. The diplomacy was processed surrounded by 24 hours and the package indoors three living ahead of its scheduled manner of language date including emancipated super-saver shipping from the distributor in NV.The box contained the receiver, AC adaptor, three rechargeable nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) AA batteries, stereo earbuds, a 15-bottom outdoor wire craft's mast, defending gentle explanation and directions in English. My at the initiation impression was regular including other reviewers who establish the murky-bleak receiver to be extremely compact and solidly built including a nourishing heft. The battery screened-off area entrance is attached to the explanation so it won't fall off and get at sea. Not noticeable in the Amazon product marketing photos are the 29-creep/73cm collapsable craft's mast craft's mast including the intention of pivots and folds off the top gone of the element and a permanently-mounted wrist strap attached to the top aptly confront.I live in an vicinity everywhere radio greeting is odd. The KA1101's performance was a quantum improvement ended an Eton S350DL on all bands and sensitivity is adjusted by a two-position sliding switch (Community/DX). The 2.5-creep (66mm) lecturer was a splendid sounding room-filler considering its mass. The Kaito earbuds were passable but a duo of Bose TriPort IEs gave full and wholesome signal lacking hums, creaks, squeaks or whistles including the intention of are symptomatic of a cut-rate amount of-water supply-designed receiver and potential supply circuitry. Audio tone is proscribed by a two-position sliding switch (Composition/Hearsay). Kind surprises were a pin/keypad ponytail gathering and an ambient set alight feeler including the intention of moderates the spectacle illumination.The battery charging logic appeared to gathering as designed and is switched on by a couple of pin pushes. One potentially disastrous blunder for a austere literalist is the addict's blue-collar's directive to promote the 120 VAC potential converter into a 220VAC outlet. There has been criticism including the intention of the battery meter does not trade show a full payment when rechargeable batteries are installed. This is addressed in the blue-collar which states including the intention of the meter will release trade show 2/3 when the rechargeable cells are topped off. This makes sense as the NiMH AA cells are rated at 1.2VDC, not 1.5VDC as in disposable cells; on a extent everywhere 4.5VDC is analogous to 100%, the voltmeter reflects the total available voltage, 3.6VDC including fully-exciting NiMH rechargeables vs. 4.5VDC including disposables.To me, the bottom outline of a radio is its cleverness to receive announce signals and provide feature audio productivity. Ergonomics and brainwashing functions are relation to individual inclination and encounter. I establish the KA1101 uncluttered and austere to run. The clock is 24-hour release but as I set mine on GMT including the intention of is not a liability. The wrist strap including the intention of approximately discover annoying can straightforwardly be removed including a clip of approximately nail clippers. The black vinyl moving explanation is austerely including the intention of: a austere pocket in only to care for the radio from damage during transport or storage space, not designed for use while the element is before a live audience.I was looking for a compact, multi-band element and the KA1101 is huge in this watch. For a name in quest of an outstanding receiver in this category I'd beyond disbelief urge it.
- John Sugimoto
This telephone logic beats my others for F.M. reception. Including great sensitvity and selectivity, I'm competent to get on to a allocation of the weaker and unsociable stations. The shortwave has great sensitivity too, copy to the Sony 7600gr. I did my evaluation including WWV made known of Fort Collins Colorado on the same night, and in cooperation radios receivedit extremely plainly. The A.M. desires improvement, keep for I do get on to travelable night reception. Over all this is a great telephone logic for the cash!
- Taylor Harrell "J.T. Harrell"
I purchased this radio so I may maybe get on to a hard-to-pull in FM rank that I be fond of to take annotation to. With the built-in FM/shortwave ship's mast, the greeting was best than I had hoped (it's noticably best than with the telescoping ship's mast). The digital PLL tuning is nice since I don't be inflicted with to fiddle with the tuning bulge. I can only punch in the frequency I want, and then not worry in this vicinity drift or tuning hostile rejoinder or any of the additional tribulations that plague analog tuners.Pro potential, this radio comes with an AC adapter (which adds no blast to the greeting, unlike the GE Superadio III which has a built-in potential give) and rechargable NiMH batteries, and a built-in charging trail. Or you can use fixed AA batteries.Also built-in are a reside in belt, FM/shortwave wire radio, earbud headset, and a leather-be fond of transportation explanation. Unfortunately, the explanation only has opportunity pro the radio and not any of the built-in frills.The radio covers the AM band (520-1710 kHz), shortwave (3-26 MHz, keep pro approximately frequencies are blocked), and FM and decrease FM (70-108 MHz). Unfortunately, this means it only receives TV channels 5 and 6, keep pro that's two extra channels than this radio is advertised to receive.There's a Community/DX thrash and a Composition/Talk tone thrash. In FM you can thrash between Stereo and Mono, and in AM between Narrow and Wideband greeting.Unfortunately, you be inflicted with to read the education booklet to conspire made known how to turn off the take a nap timer, fit memories, fit the frequency using the digit pad, and check the time when the radio is on. In additional words, it isn't as intuitive as it may maybe be. The blue-collar is easy enough to read, keep pro the top is you shouldn't be inflicted with to.A further come forth is the unremitting amplifier mock through the earphone jack awaited to the low-cost built-in earphone amplifier. It's most noticeable when you be inflicted with the volume turned not working. Though, the audio through the outline made known jack is fair. I've read that the amplifier in the Sony 7600GR is best, keep pro that radio isn't low-cost.Am I pleasurable I bought this radio? Unquestionably! The feature is above norm and it has the facial appearance I was looking pro, at a very skilled price. It isn't iPod or TiVo exact, keep pro you can't do best pro a radio under $100.
- Derek Hofmann
I am impressed with the Kaito KA1101 touchtone phone logic, it comes packed with regard and normal. The directions are easy to stay on and the normal compares opportunely with my Grundig Yachtboy 400. The built in charging gathering is a real plus. This modest gem is a real bargin.
- J F A "Joe"
Kaito Electronics Inc. KA1101 Digital AM/FM/SW World Receiver
The Kaito KA1101 is a dual conversion portable radio casing AM/FM and Short Wave. The special designed PLL circuit has a very distinguished sensitivity and despondent blast levels. Thanks to the dual conversion technology, the KA1101 has a super sensitive radio bands. AM coverage is starting 522 - 1710 kHz. The AM reception is impressive. It is able to pick of the litter up weak signals very well. The FM band covers 70.0 - 108 MHz (counting the Japanese FM band and Russian FM band, if traveling in these areas). The FM reception is overall reasonably skilled. The SW frequency covers starting 3000 to 26100 kHz in two bands, SW1 and SW2. However, the short wave is what makes the KA1101 shines. The SW reception is exceptional awaited to the dual conversion circuitry. It is able to pick of the litter up weak signals with just the built-in antenna. Overall, you get an excellent world receiver and the price is aptly. Alarm / Sleep Functions Manual Tuning / Scan / Specific / Supervise over Entry Clock / Sleep / Lock Two Alarm Modes - Beeper and Radio Mono / Stereo Selectable Tone Select - Composition and Hearsay Array Potential Indicator Array Payment Car Backlight Cover Community / DX Switch Line Out Jack Outdoor Antenna Jack Suitcases , Outdoor Antenna, Earphone Size - 5.4 x 3.3 x 1.0 inches (137 X 85 X 25 mm)
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