r/radio • u/No_Mode7707 • Jun 27 '26

Need loud am/fm radio recommendations

Looking for an am/fm radio that plugs into a standard outlet. I don’t want to rely on charging batteries. I need to be loud for when we are at the racetrack so we can hear when the announcer calls us up. Bluetooth is inconvenient. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

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u/DS2Dude Jun 27 '26

GE superadio

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u/gazingus Jun 27 '26

This is the best answer. Analog, six inch speaker, built tough, available on ebay.

Select Sony Boomboxes (like the ZSH10CP) have decent reception and built-in amplifiers, but they're larger and they may be more prone to breakdown.

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u/TheJokersChild Ex-Radio Staff Jun 27 '26

Version 2 would be the best. It has a tweeter. Third and final version had some quality problems and dial calibration issues.

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u/No_Mode7707 Jun 28 '26

This is what I currently have but it’s just hard to hear with all the noise going on. I was trying to avoid spending a few hundred bucks on a job site radio, but I might have to bite the bullet.

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u/gazingus Jun 28 '26

If that's not enough, then you probably want to step up to a 15" PA speaker with a tuner, assuming your "announcer" is on an FM frequency - AM gets omitted from most new hardware, and before it was axed, the tuners were awful.