Midland WR100 Weather Radio
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Customer Review: Perfect if only...
Summary: 4 Stars
The radio works great. Will certainly wake you up quickly with the audible alert. Getting the current weather by hitting the snooze/weather bar is handy, and used every morning as we get ready for work.
However, we currently don't have the audible alterts on, because we got woken up quite well in the middle of the night...by an Amber alert. I certainly feel it important to get the word out for missing children, but it ought not trigger an audible alert. There is no action we can take at 2:00 in the morning. So in regards to that, I wish that I could configure the unit to only audible alert on certain events. It can differentiate between the alerts on the display screen, so the categorization is there.
Overall though, this works as advertised and I really appreciate the ability to filter the "reported on" area to my local zone.
Customer Review: 5 Stars
This little radio is great and loud!!!!! I am not worried about missing an emergency annoucement now. In fact there is a winter storm warning now. I look forward to feeling safe and knowing in advance when to take shelter. Great product Midland and great delivery Amazon!!!!!!!2/28/2007
This is an updated rating. I thought my nice new radio didn't work as we had a snow storm and no alerts. I called Midland and they said to check with the NWS to see if alerts had been issued. I called the NWS and to my surprise no alerts had been issued. I thought something was wrong with my radio but there was nothing wrong with it. I highly recommend this product. I love it!!!!! Great price and snazzy looking gadget. This is my favorite new gadget. I am waiting for a weather alert. I know that may sound sick but I want to hear how loud the warning is LOL!!!
Customer Review: Expensive door stop
Summary: 2 Stars
Received the radio on February 12. Programmed it (per instructions) for our county's SAME code. We've had numerous weather advisories and a few watches and warnings since. The radio has failed to respond to a single one of them. No alarm, no light--NOTHING. Emails to the company have been answered, but with rather useless information. Emails to the local NWS officer have produced attempts on his part to verify whether or not the SAME code alerts were, in fact, sent out properly.
If it eventually works, I'll be glad. But at this point, it's about as useful as a door stop. Which is OK, since we don't have any fruitcakes to use for that purpose.
UPDATE: It never worked, except for responding to one test alert (the monthly test). I eventually got rid of it. Useless. Don't buy it unless you just want to run some batteries dry.
Customer Review: Worthless
Summary: 1 Stars
I live smack in the middle of tornado alley. For the past week we have gone under severe thunderstorm watches and warnings as well as tornado watches. I belong to a weather blog as well as being a stormchaser. I bought a Midland hoping to be able to warn my daughter of danger when I was at work. Since buying it four months ago ( I know it is programmed correctly) it has correctly gone off once out of about 12 alert times.
According to my weather friends theirs sit silent as well. There are 15 of us on my weather blog who have Midlands and no ones has gone off, including today for the tornado watch over Kansas City. We can't all be programming incorrectly. Luckily, we have other venues for weather tracking so I try to have someone call my daughter to alert her as we can not trust the Midlands at all. Biggest waste of money ever!
Customer Review: Good reception but annoying alert tone.
Summary: 3 Stars
The unit receives signals well, maybe too well. During a storm event, the unit becomes annoying because of the frequent and loud alerts broadcast by the weather service. If there was just a tad bit more logic to the thing it would null the loud tone after the first time it gets your attention. The repeated loud tones which cannot be disabled without turning the radio off are just more than necessary. I'd recommend putting it under a pillow once you receive the first alert during a weather emergency. Otherwise you may wind up being tone deaf. There are many types of weather alert radios out there. I own two different brands myself. The other one doesn't even respond during an event as it's reception is so poor. At least this one will jilt you into action with it's very audible screech. Just get the ear plugs ready.