You can be confident that you will be able to stay informed during an emergency with this rugged, precision built portable radio that gets AM, FM, Short Wave, Weather and TV sound and can operate without electricity or batteries. The heavy duty crank is engineered to last and just two minutes of crank time gives you an hour of playtime. Four hours of sun charge the internal battery for about 24 hours and the radio will run about 100 hours on 3 AA batteries.