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Midland WR100B Weather Radio
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Fantastic!!!
(5 out of 5) by Susan on Jul 3, 2006 (Chapel Hill, NC USA)What a great device. For years I have owned and used an inexpensive weather radio that just had an on/off switch. Turn it on and listen to the nearest NWS station or turn it off.
This Midland weather radio goes so far beyond that. It plugs in rather than working on batteries and you leave it on all the time. There is a bar to press if you want to hear the local weather forecast. Press the bar again and it goes back to mute.
But the beauty of it is that you can program in up to 25 county codes so that you get the warnings from the NWS as they are issued and because the radio is always on, the radio comes on automatically when a warning is issued for one of the counties you have programmed in. It stays on for five minutes and then goes mute again.
I put my county and the 3 surrounding counties in so now I know what's coming and we have a lot of severe thunderstorms in my area during the summer months so this is great. If I'm asleep and a severe storm is approaching I will know it.
It also runs on batteries for when the power goes out.
Great machine. I love it !!
This Midland weather radio goes so far beyond that. It plugs in rather than working on batteries and you leave it on all the time. There is a bar to press if you want to hear the local weather forecast. Press the bar again and it goes back to mute.
But the beauty of it is that you can program in up to 25 county codes so that you get the warnings from the NWS as they are issued and because the radio is always on, the radio comes on automatically when a warning is issued for one of the counties you have programmed in. It stays on for five minutes and then goes mute again.
I put my county and the 3 surrounding counties in so now I know what's coming and we have a lot of severe thunderstorms in my area during the summer months so this is great. If I'm asleep and a severe storm is approaching I will know it.
It also runs on batteries for when the power goes out.
Great machine. I love it !!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent for the price
(5 out of 5) by Cathy D. Hutchinson on Jan 16, 2007 (Wylie, TX)The weather alert does a great job. We use it all the time
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Midland WE-100B SAME Weather Radio
(2 out of 5) by G. Sumergrad on Mar 21, 2007The problem I encountered with this radio is that you cannot select the particular alerts you want to receive. I purchased this monitor to alert me of any tornadios or serious weather potentially affecting my area. Since you cannot choose the weather alerts only, the radio is going to alert me (and wake me up) for any type of alert including Amber alerts and tests sent out from my county at all times of the day or night. I purchased a monitor from Radio Shack with a larger display that can pop up for better reading and I can choose the alerts I want to receive and it has been very good in sending only the alerts that I have chosen to receive. It also scans automatically for the best channel to receive braodcasts which the Midland WE-100B SAME Weather Radio does not. You have to choose your channel from a list according to your county. The Radio Shack radio costs a little more but not much more but it's features are well worth paying the difference.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Peace of Mind
(5 out of 5) by Yvonne on Jan 9, 2007 (Lake Norman, NC)We read several reviews on the different models offered by the manufacturer of this product, in the end we decided to purchase the
WR-100B. Im happy to say that the product was very easy to program and has worked perfectly and given us the peace of mind we needed after having experienced our first tornado. Small price to pay, big benefits buy it!!!!
WR-100B. Im happy to say that the product was very easy to program and has worked perfectly and given us the peace of mind we needed after having experienced our first tornado. Small price to pay, big benefits buy it!!!!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Weather radio
(4 out of 5) by J. Compton on Nov 4, 2006 (USA, MO)This radio works fine, was not too complicated to program and the SAME is a very important feature. The only down side is it seems that the batteries wear down even if the unit is plugged into the wall. I at least had batteries in it and they didn't last long with the power out which is the time when you most want to know where the storm is.