radio for fish house

[kooba]

what do you all have for radios in your permanent fish houses? Looking to purchase one for mine. Where can a guy find a cheap one and also an attenna/speaker package? Is there any place on line that I could buy one? What brands do you have? KOOBA

[HarryG]

I have satelite radio. It works very well as many times the stations fade. Tough to listen to a viking game when you have to keep tuning it in every now and then. You can get a good radio almost anywhere. Check to see that it has an external antenna outlet. You can buy a cheap antenna that looks like speaker wire, it will help out as lot. You may want to check out a second hand store. You can't beat the price and it may give you a chance to try it out for the least amount of money.

[arcticcat400]

i recently bought one for mine i was just gonna use a little plug in type one but i found a car type radio for $35 at walmart then spent $20 for a cheap set of speakers and mounted the whole thing into the side of one of my permanent beds and ran all the wiring behind the bed it has a tape deck but has a plug in so u can plug in an mp3 player or portable cd player so i download all the songs i like to my mp3 player then plug it into the stereo and it works great i also have an antenna for it but havent installed yet

[lookin4fish]

i too just use a car radio and speakers, but another option is an under the counter kitchen radio. i have seen them in various stores for cheap. but make sure you look on the back and check out the input. the ones that will work say 12volt on the back. where the cord plugs into the back of the unit, it will say 120 or 12 volt. if it is 12 volt, it is made to plug into the wall and run off 120. but the thing that makes it 120 is the transformer (the large part of the plugin that connects to the socket.) so again, if it says 12v on any part of were it connects to the the radio unit, it will work just bay taking cutting off the transformer (plugin part)and putting battery clips on it. i dont know if this make sence at all, but maybe someone can explain it better.

[End of the Line]

I got a AM/FM CD and 4 speakers at Checker Auto for around $90 total.

[ice_it_06]

Check local parts yards for any decent deck with a "digital" tuner if you have none laying around or any friends with one. Cheap decks and speakers are every where !!

Had a head mount "tractor stereo" in a older house of mine and old Fed Ex Truck..

Worked great as they come in an enclosure with deck/speakers already installed and antenna included. Mount it to a ceiling or under cabinet and hook two wires up. $190 I believe but was a good set up. All kinds of options out there Kooba.

Have a old 90 cadillac going to the bone yard my kid took out the Bose deck and rear 5 X 7 speakers.

Cutout his side cabinet to receive the deck and put the speakers on each side of the cabinet. Cost $$(0) and has quality sound for nothing but 30 minutes of his time.