What about a wind-up radio?
Having been through many power outages and battery shortages, I'm interested in a wind-up emergency portable radio. What's your advice on this? Does Best Buy sell them? I understand the Red Cross had endorsed something like this.
Being an amateur radio operator, I definitely recommend a "wind-up" radio. You can find good quality radios just about anywhere. I would recommend that you get one with TV audio and a Weather band. But any of them work pretty well. This eliminates the need for batteries and you generally get about 1-3 hours of use by "cranking" the generator up for about 60-90 seconds. Hope this helps.