Sony has a bunch of reasonably priced radios with all the weather bands and television 2-13, which I have found kind of handy when storms were coming in. $40.00, with 'phones, IIRC.

{I am a life long Ruger fan, but I was REAL disappointed in the .22/45. The trigger was awful, and I've had government models that were smoother if you dumped sand in them. I love my H-S Victor, or, better yet, a Smith 41, which I have not wanted to drill for glass - but I want a long barrel for it, so . . }