If you listen to AM radio stations at night that are just impossible to pick up during the day, chances are you’re benefiting from sky-wave propagation. Propagation is just the technical word for how radio signals travel through the air. Sky-wave propagation is the specific name given to radio waves that travel through the sky. Sky-wave propagation takes place between sunset and sunrise. It’s the flip side to the ground wave propagation used to transmit during the day. Continue Reading
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Hurricanes And How Radios Are Essential In Times Of Emergency
Millions of Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and Caribbean residents had an old friend help them get through the toughest days of a dangerous 2017 hurricane season: AM/FM radio. Many didn’t have a radio of their own, but instead would gather around a business with one or in someone’s car. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, every day at 3pm, the Governor would share over the radio what resources would be distributed, if any, as well as any new updates with the storms. Continue Reading
C. Crane’s Employee Recommended Gift Guide
We feel your pain in the effort to try to figure out what to buy each year, we’re in the same boat. Whether you are shopping for your spouse who buys whatever he wants when he wants, your father who already has everything, your mother-in-law who insists she doesn’t want anything but will be devastated […]
The Traveling Life
With summer looming on the horizon, we start to hear from more and more of our customers who are preparing to travel. We get to speak with quite a diverse group – from folks who travel seasonally throughout the year and stay in one location for several months or weeks; those who only travel during the […]
Why We Made the First CCRadio
After C. Crane started to gain momentum selling mostly antennas and radio accessories, we received our first real technological challenge when customers starting asking for recommendations on the best radio. It was pretty easy to select the Sangean 803A as the first radio we offered to our customers. Tuning was precise and voice audio was […]
C. Crane’s Employee Recommended Gift Guide
Every Christmas you try to find gifts for your family that you hope they will like and maybe even use. After the gifts are opened on Christmas day, you never see the stuff again (you know what we mean, the sweater, the tie, the gift they specifically asked for). Whether you have family spread all over the country or close by, you rarely see anyone wearing or using what you gave them. Well, we know how to help you out. Some of our staff here have had similar experiences so we took a poll here at C. Crane about what gifts employees have given for Christmas and how they were received. Click to continue reading.
Here’s to never buying anyone a sweater or tie for Christmas again!
Bob’s Planned Move Brings Transformation
Moving from San Francisco to rural Humboldt County, California in 1983 was not without a few oversights on my part. Due to poor radio reception my love for AM radio was met with a good deal of silence until the sun went down. It was only then that I could receive AM stations from several […]
C. Crane’s 30 Year Anniversary- 30 Days of Giveaways, Day 14!
We hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Congratulations to Friday’s winners Robert A. Roesing for winning the CC Radio-SW AM/FM Shortwave Radio and William Brown for winning the Power Vivid® BR40 LED Light Bulb. Congratulations to Saturday’s winners Jim Sherman for winning the SoftSpeaker™-2 Pillow Speaker with Volume Control and Shil Bhaku for winning […]
C. Crane’s 30 Year Anniversary- 30 Days of Giveaways, Day 13!
We have had a great time reading everyone’s comments here at C. Crane! Today’s Blog Topic is: If you could put two talk show hosts in a debate with each other, who would they be and what would they debate? Today’s giveaways are the CC SW Pocket AM/FM/SW Pocket Radio and a Power Vivid® BR40 […]