Ready Signal — Emergency Weather Radio, Crank & Solar

Every other item in an emergency kit waits quietly for something to go wrong. This one does a job the moment the power drops: it tells you what is happening, and it keeps your phone alive long enough to tell someone where you are.

Ready Signal runs on a hand crank and a solar panel. No batteries to buy, none to corrode in a drawer over five years, nothing to remember. Turn the handle and it works.

Four jobs, one device

• AM, FM and NOAA weather radio — seven dedicated NOAA channels carry the National Weather Service alerts for your area. When the mobile network is congested or down, this is how people actually find out what is happening.
• Flashlight — built in, so it is one less thing to find in the dark.
• 1000 mAh phone charger — crank or solar into the USB port. Not fast, but the difference between a dead phone and a working one.
• Two power sources that never expire — a hand crank for right now, a solar panel for all day.

Why this and not a torch and a power bank

A power bank is only useful if somebody charged it recently. In a long outage it becomes dead weight on day two. A crank and a panel have no such condition attached — they work on the third day exactly as well as on the first.

Specifications

Good to know

• Ships from our US warehouse. Processing 1–3 business days, delivery 3–5 business days after dispatch.
• 30-day returns. If it is not what you pictured, send it back.
• Arrives in a gift box with a blank card — tick the gift option at checkout and we leave the invoice out of the parcel.