Customer Ratings & Reviews

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 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.

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.

This is the second midland radio that I've purchased. The first one lasted many years before giving out. This one is very easy to set up, easier than the previous one. It basically sits there quiet, barely noticeable, but It just gives a little extra comfort knowing you will get the audible alerts in case of oncoming bad weather and other emergencies.

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.

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!

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.

Easy to set up for local weather and alerts, Attractive in appearance and with battery back up can be taken with you and used during power outages,

The Midland Weather Radio is a good product that is highly customizable to receive weather alerts for your area. I highly recommend this brand. My only issue is with the retailer Best Buy who did not properly disclose that they are not fulling the order but Midland a third party seller using the Best Buy website. If i had known that I would have just order directly from Midland the manufacturer instead of going thru a third party which can complicate getting any potential issues resolved.

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!

Easy to program. More effort needed if you want to receive from multiple transmitters or a different transmitter than your present county.

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.

Easy to operate and definitely a needed item as part of an emergency kit.

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.

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

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.

Works great, easy to set up, good price - had rewards to use.

This radio was for my daughter-in-law! She did such a great job setting up the first radio I purchased a few weeks ago that I purchased her one! Thank you for putting out a product that will alert us to bad weather while we are sleeping during the night. The product is worth every penny!

The weather radio worked extremely well during our recent storms.

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.