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blodynmenynblodynmenyn Posts: 12
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I need to buy a new radio to use whilst gardening - any recomendations?
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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Depends if you want DAB or are happy with FM . I only have a mains one in my greenhouse,  but for battery powered, this is the good cheap one that my dad uses
    https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8587446
  • blodynmenynblodynmenyn Posts: 12
    Thanks. Not bothered about digital channels, but want one that is clear and fairly loud,so I can hear when I move round the garden . Was considering a wind up one ?
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Duronic-Hybrid-Radio-Rechargeable-Charger/dp/B002D9FKDS
     :) 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    A friend of mine in Belgium has a baseball style hat with built in radio that can get Radio 4 long wave.  No idea what make or model but clearly easy to use and gets carried around with him, hands and cable free.   

    Google "baseball hat+radio" and you'll find a few models.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • blodynmenynblodynmenyn Posts: 12
    Thanks both. The Duronic one looks good. Perhaps I will try that .
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2019
    We have a Duronic wind up radio ... the sound quality isn’t the greatest ... quite tinny ... but it works, and recharges well when left indoors on a windowsill. 

    I wouldn’t want to inflict my radio on the neighbours tho ... I used to use a small one that slipped in my pocket and used headphones when working outside. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I agree Dove I would never play a radio in my back garden but I live in the suburbs and have a small garden surrounded on all sides by other gardens so keep the noise to a minimum. Luckily my neighbours are all considerate too. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Not nice to inflict on neighbours, and what’s wrong with bird sound, nothing I like more than to just work in the garden listening to the natural sounds.

    My ex made a devise that would turn radios down, so we couldn’t hear them,  would be funny to watch them, or listen, they would keep turning them up until they’d run out of volume. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    I love listening to the radio when working in the garden and never have it loud enough for anyone to hear apart from me. I generally only listen to BBC radio 4 on FM but the reception isn't that good when at the back of the house, around the side in the carport it's not too bad if the radio is set up and not moved around. I have one of these https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5066661 which eats batteries but is nice and small. I've looked at loads of radios but reading the reviews none seem to be without their faults.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That looks ideal @barry island  ... you can use it with an ear piece, very similar to one I used to have when at art school ... think it's probably still there :s
    I may have to get another one ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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