Philips Radios

Philips radios at Night Owl

The Philips set on this page is the portable FM/AM radio TAR1509/00 — something you pick up and carry from the kitchen to the balcony, tuned by hand instead of through an app.

A radio still earns its shelf when the power or the internet goes. Reception inside a concrete building is mostly a question of where the aerial sits: extended and near a window beats a shelf in the middle of the flat, and turning the set a few degrees can be the difference between a clean station and a hiss. Keep batteries beside it so it works when the socket does not.

• TAR1509/00 — portable FM/AM tuning
• Extend the aerial and face a window for the weaker stations
• Keep spare batteries with the set, not in a drawer somewhere else
• Speakers, players and the rest of the audio side sit under TV & Audio

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