Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is the second one I have bought to replace one from several years ago. It is well-made, receives NOAA weather even without extending the antenna! The alert feature warns when there are weather issues in your area. This feature is enabled by selecting your state and county. Great buy!

It has done everything I expected it to do. Easy setup. Volume control with a clear voice during alarms.

Super cool Super good Works Alerts when weather stuff happen

A very useful radio that will wake the dead when it goes off. Has been very useful more than I would like. Highly recommend to someone who lives where there is bad weather.

This radio is for one thing and one thing only....to alert you of emergencies...floods, storms, chemical spills, etc. It does this very well. The radio sets up quickly by hitting the menu key and then using the arrows to page thru the options...what kind of allerts do you want to be notified of (I picked all). When the national weather service sends out a warning you get a warning tone that could wake the dead and then the verbal warning....winter storm, tornadoe, etc. You can hit the paddle any time for weather forcasts also. The unit looks good, the sound is a bit like an old AM radio...you have six or seven channels to choose from and you pick the one that comes in the best...but if I had one improvement to suggest it would be a better speaker. For the price it is great.

After reviewing a number of WX band radios I purchased the Midland. The radio is easy to program for area and type of traffic. It is really loud but adjustable. I have not had any problems.

The weather alert radio was very easy to program; set up was very easy and straightforward. However, with the backup battery installed, I had to walk the radio around the house until it picked up my local NOAA weather station. It does have a connection for an external antenna, but to me it seems unlikely that most folks would use such an item. Three days after setting up the radio, it received an alert and provided much needed extra time to prepare for coming strong thunderstorms and tornados.

Bought this item to replace a 20+ tear Midland weather radio. The old one was "great" and I expect the new one to be just as good. Best Buy had a great price and the delivery was actually earlier than promised.

The weather radio worked extremely well during our recent storms.

Very nice weather radio, easy to setup and use. Alway accurate.

This radio is exactly what we wanted. We can program the counties we want alert for so we are no alerted in the middle of the night unless it is the counties we requested. We feel safer with the system!

I really like my weather radio we have had one for a number of years. Our last one we got after we had a fire in our house two years ago, It was working well but we had a bunch of new kittens and they began chewing on cords, after splicing the cord 3-4 times it was too short to splice any more and yet I could not keep batteries in it all the time. I tried to find a new cord for the old one and realized it was more cost effective to buy a new radio than cord which may or may not work. So now I have the new radio and it works quite well.

I bought this for my elderly parents who live in Ocala FL to replace a very old one that had died. Same brand. So far this going off at the proper time for warnings and working well and my stepfather is pleased.

It is easy to use. You can set it for your area and it will keep you alerted of any hazardous weather conditions. It is battery backup so it will be a great asset in case of power outage. A good addition to add for your hurricane preparedness.

This one replaced a very similar, older model, also by Midland, which had been knocked off the shelf one too many times. There are fancier weather alert radios out there, but this does all I need it to, I chose it over cheaper models because it has S.A.M.E., with which I can specify which county alerts we'll hear, thus saving alerts for counties that aren't likely to affect us. This newer model also allows choosing which kinds of alerts will sound, e.g. fire, avalanche, amber, blizzard, etc. I only wish there were alternatives to the loud siren, which startles me in a major way in daylight hours; but doubtless it will do the job in the middle of the night.

Easy to setup. Now we are ready if bad storms come our way.

Work's good we set up with no issues. The other early morning we had a big storm come through our town and this thing is loud woke us up. It let us know that there is a possible tornado in our area. Its a great item to have to be safe.

Very easy to set up. Can get multiple counties programmed.

The reason it is the best is because you can program it by county which allows you to skip alarms that are not near you. It's a bit tricky to program but, once you're done it works like a charm. Alarm is loud and adjustable - works fine in a two story house if centrally located.

was able to set unit up in less than 10 minutes. Price was very competative. basically set it self to correct channels for the area