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Summary: Great Buy
Review: After reading the previous reviews for this product, I was a bit weary. However, after the purchase, I was quite impressed. The controls work fine, even in "silent" mode. No faint broadcasts. I wonder if that person was too close to the transmitter?? Radio controls are nice and easy to program. Reception is very good with minimal distortion on all bands. The couple of things I did notice that I would prefer would be that the backlight stay on just a bit longer, 4 seconds on mine. The other would be to display the alert's effective time. That time is not displayed, but the alert light stays lit for the effective time. All in all, a very good price to pay for safety!
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Summary: A Good Value
Review: After reading the previous reviews for this product, I was a bit weary. However, after the purchase, I was quite impressed. The controls work fine, even in "silent" mode. No faint broadcasts. I wonder if that person was too close to the transmitter?? Radio controls are nice and easy to program. Reception is very good with minimal distortion on all bands. The couple of things I did notice that I would prefer would be that the backlight stay on just a bit longer, 4 seconds on mine. The other would be to display the alert's effective time. That time is not displayed, but the alert light stays lit for the effective time. All in all, a very good price to pay for safety!
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Summary: A Good Value
Review: After reading the previous reviews for this product, I was a bit weary. However, after the purchase, I was quite impressed. The controls work fine, even in "silent" mode. No faint broadcasts. I wonder if that person was too close to the transmitter?? Radio controls are nice and easy to program. Reception is very good with minimal distortion on all bands. The couple of things I did notice that I would prefer would be that the backlight stay on just a bit longer, 4 seconds on mine. The other would be to display the alert's effective time. That time is not displayed, but the alert light stays lit for the effective time. All in all, a very good price to pay for safety!
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Summary: Great Weather Radio/Great Price on Amazon
Review: I am really impressed with this weather radio! I had an older radio and every time there was an alert in my region the alarm would go off. We turned off the alarms and a tornado went 1/4 mile from our house and we never knew it. With this radio you set up your town(s) or area(s) you want alerts for. Then you can turn off some types of alerts (like avalanche alerts if you are not near a mountain) and let it do it's thing. Great to be able to have the alerts active but not be woken by river flooding 30 miles away (I live nowhere near a river).
Rating:
Summary: Great Weather Radio
Review: I go this radio as a gift. I've had it for about two weeks and it great. Its got the Weather Alert feature, AM/FM, Alarm Clock, Date and Time. It's what I was looking for. I put in on my kitchen counter, and it's perfect!Pros- - Very easy to program.
- Weather Alerts
- Real cool blue backlit display.
- You can remove unwanted alerts.
- Date, Time and Alarm Clock.
- Digital AM/FM Radio. Cons - - The only thing is that I would like the AM/FM Icons to be a little big bigger on the display. Overall -
I am here in Florida and we do get alot of Thunderstorms so for me this is a perfect gift, I would recommend to anyone.
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Summary: Best Weather Gift for a weather geek
Review: I purchased 2 of these to replace the Midlands I lost in a tornado on July 13, 2004. The old radio saved the lives of myself, our 5 yr old and 3 of our grandchildren. If the radio had not been going off I never would have looked out the back door in time to get us all in the basement before an F4 hit our home. We live in the country and I have always had a weather radio. I am the weather radio preacher.
This is a nice model and I like the AM/FM feature. The problem I continually have had with every radio is that we live in the middle of the coverage areas and don't get the best signal at times. I have solved this by putting a Chore Boy stainless steel scrub pad on the antenna. It definately improves the reception and seems to do better that foil. Other than that I think this is the best one I have had.
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Summary: Avoid this Product!
Review: I purchased this product and I had to return it the next day. I then received a replacement radio with the same technical issue: The weather radio would not turn off even when in the "silent" mode. It may be possible that the radio issues the weather warnings, etc., but who wants to listen to the radio going 24 hours a day? When the radio is placed in the silent/mute mode you can hear a weak NOAA signal in the background. Obviously this radio was poorly engineered, constructed incorrectly, or had defective parts placed in the unit. Why would you want to pay money for this radio only to put a towel on it so you can't hear it? Save you money! I would recommend the WX500 Uniden weather radio (although it does not have AM/FM) or the hand-held Midland 74-250 with SAME. It is my hope that Uniden stays in the weather radio market, as their WX500 is the best base weather radio I've ever had.
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Summary: Avoid this Product!
Review: I purchased this product and I had to return it the next day. I then received a replacement radio with the same technical issue: The weather radio would not turn off even when in the "silent" mode. It may be possible that the radio issues the weather warnings, etc., but who wants to listen to the radio going 24 hours a day? When the radio is placed in the silent/mute mode you can hear a weak NOAA signal in the background. Obviously this radio was poorly engineered, constructed incorrectly, or had defective parts placed in the unit. Why would you want to pay money for this radio only to put a towel on it so you can't hear it? Save you money! I would recommend the WX500 Uniden weather radio (although it does not have AM/FM) or the hand-held Midland 74-250 with SAME. It is my hope that Uniden stays in the weather radio market, as their WX500 is the best base weather radio I've ever had.
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Summary: Receiver problems
Review: Many aspects of the unit seemed good but I returned the one I ordered because in some locations in my apartment the radio received some type of commercial radio or TV signal. The audio coming from the radio was clearly not from a weather radio station. My older Radio Shack weather radio does not have this problem.
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Summary: Good Weather Radio - one incredibly annoying problem..
Review: Okay, as far as a basic weather radio, this unit is working fine. SAME technology helps me to avoid the miles-away-irreleveant alerts. The unit is easy to set up and use. Good reception and nice appearance.
One thing to keep in mind is that I had intended to use this thing as both a weather radio and a 'clock radio' for my bedside. Then the faults really emerge.
First, that #@!$% keyboard beep. Every time you press a key, it beeps - loudly - and you cannot turn it off. To do simple things, such as make the LCD backlight come-on, the thing beeps more than a George Carlin video being shown at prayer meetin'.
So forget touching the thing if someone is beeping...er.. sleeping in the room. So if you just want to turn on the clock light, for example, by pressing a key... it goes "BEEP!!!!" So forget using this as a 'clock radio' for your bed unless you sleep alone. And if you need to do something basic, like program a radio station, etc. get ready for a long series of "beep, beep, beep, beep, beep....aggghhh...beep beep" while you hit keys. Same goes if you want to scan radio stations.
Did anyone ever think about this during design?
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