- Specific Area Message Encoding notifies of alerts in your area only
- Receives all 7 NOAA weather/hazard channels
- Amber Alert and 911 call outage messages
- Automatically sounds a loud alert siren when emergency conditions occur in your area
- Upgradable using a PC
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The First Alert WX-167 Weather Radio is the next step in the evolution of the all-hazards radio warning system in the United States. In addition to providing traditional emergency weather alert warnings, the First Alert WX-167 now includes civil emergency messages such as terrorist attacks, problems at nuclear plants, industrial fires, chemical spills, biological hazards and AMBER alerts. This state-of-the-art public alert radio monitors the National Weather Radio broadcast channels day and night and automatically alerts you to 79 civil and severe weather messages.
The radio itself is filled with features that make the receiving of your messages easier than ever, including a telescoping antenna, color-coded warning lights, digital clock with calendar, backlighting for easy night viewing, siren alert and more. Featuring SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) technology, this radio enables you to program 20 different location codes into the unit, helping you avoid non-local alerts. Powered by an included 9-volt AC adapter, the WX-167 uses five AA alkaline batteries (not included) for back-up power, and also has a built-in circuit for charging five 1.5-volt rechargeable NiCad or NiMH batteries (batteries not included).
What's in the Box
WX-167 radio, AC power adapter and mounting bracket.
Product Description
Receives NOAA (NWR) broadcasts. First Alert Brand Emergency Alert Radios give you the life-saving advantage of an automatic warning before severe weather and other emergency conditions arise. Designed for use before, during and after emergencies, these radios meet the new CEA standard for Public Alert devices. Accurate Digital Tuning The unit uses accurate digital crystal controlled PLL (phase locked loop) tuning for all (7) NWR Channels. Analog radios which are tuned by turning a knob are prone to drift off of the set station over time and temperature changes. Digital Alert Decoding The (S.A.M.E Specific Area Message Encoding) Technology allows the radio to decode the digital broadcast information for all types of emergency, both civil (radiological, oil spills and chemical releases)natural (weather, earthquakes and volcano activities). These emergency alerts can be targeted to a specific area, with a granularity of 1/9th of a county. The text of the event is then shown on the LCD. NWR Alerting Receiver Constantly monitors one of the seven NOAA Weather Radio channels (162.400 162.550 MHz) for any emergency notifications i.e. civil emergency, AMBER Alert. There are more than 900+ NWR Stations covering 95% of US population. The system is used daily, and tested weekly. Alert Siren A two tone alert siren which sounds when an emergency alert is received. The siren can be set to mute, LOW ( 80 dBa ), or HIGH( 90 dBa ). Location Programming Up to 20 locations can be programme
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62 of 63 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of Features / Thoughtful Design,
This review is from: First Alert Public Alert Radio with S.A.M.E (Electronics)
The First Alert WX-167 is a thoughtfully designed Public Alert receiver that offers a lot of features at a reasonable price.
Like all SAME receivers, the WX-167 allows you to filter alerts by state and county... a significant improvement over old style weather radios. However, this radio can be further configured to sound alerts for only the events that are important to you. Things I really like about this receiver: * Excellent custom alert filtering * Super easy programming via the radio's function knob. * Five alerting options (i.e. - voice/message, siren/message, voice/event, siren/event, or silent). * Good reception and sound quality. * 24-hour battery backup in case of power failure. * A lit display that tilts for easy viewing at any angle. * Jacks for adding an external antenna and/or alerting device. * PC port, which allows additional alerts to be added (at the factory) should more become available. * Decent chassis design and simple button layout * A well-written user manual. A few nitpicks: * The radio sounds an alarm if it hasn't received a SAME message (real or test) for 10 days. IMO, blinking lights and a scrolling text message would have been sufficient for this kind of "alert". * Alerts are completely removed from memory after they expire. Many other receivers keep the last 10 or so expired alerts in memory, which can be used to verify that the radio is actually receiving NWS data. * Backup power is supplied by 5 AA batteries, which means you'll need to keep a few extra on hand if you normally buy AA's by the 4-pack. * 90-day warranty. (Many competitors offer a full one-year warranty.) All in all, I am very pleased with the features, performance, and reliability of this receiver and would recommend it to others.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Satisfied,
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This review is from: First Alert Public Alert Radio with S.A.M.E (Electronics)
I am very pleased with the unit so far. I haven't received any alerts as yet (no storms in my area since I purchased the unit) but I feel this unit should be standard equipment in any home just like a smoke detector. Setting it up was easy and you can turn off alerts that you don't wish to receive. I initially installed alkaline batteries for backup but have since replaced them with rechargeable since there is a battery charger included in the unit. The battery backup allows the unit to still provide alerts when the house power is out.
Update: After several months of ownership, the unit has sounded warnings on three occasions: "flood warnings". A siren sounds first followed by NOAA radio voice broadcast of the warning. A red light flashes when warnings are in effect. The LCD display also displays the warning in ticker tape mode. After you've received the warning, you can press the "off button" to turn off NOAA radio. I placed the unit in my bedroom, near a window as recommended, so that I would be sure to hear it when sleeping. The siren can be heard throughout my house. The unit also receives a test signal from NOAA radio on regular basis and is suppose to warn you if no signal has been received. So far reception has been good. I initially set the SAME codes for my area as well as an area to the west reasoning that I would get an earlier warning of weather heading our way. I'm rethinking that option, since I have received warnings at 3 A.M. that didn't apply to my area.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Huge waste of money,
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This review is from: First Alert Public Alert Radio with S.A.M.E (Electronics)
This radio is a huge waste of money and not worth purchasing. It functioned properly for a few weeks after I programmed it and then started throwing error messages on a regular basis. Then, it would cease to function about every two weeks - be completely dead. This necessitated disconnecting it from the power source, removing the back up batteries then replacing them and reconnecting it, and reprogramming ALL the functions and settings. It would then operate for another couple of weeks, and then stop again...the whole thing had to be repeated. I have finally disconnected it permanently and it is going in the garbage. I am purchasing a Metro radio and recommend that anyone in the market for a weather radio buy ANY one but this First Alert piece of shoddy workmanship.
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