Midland WR-30 Digital Weather/Hazard Radio with S.A.M.E. Technology and FM Clock Radio

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Product Details

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• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006911A
• Item model number: WR-30
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #114,686 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2002

Product Description

Product Description

All Hazards/Weather Emergency Alert Radios are special receivers that tune to the 24/7 broadcasts issued by the National Weather Service. These broadcasts can be received up to 50 miles from any NOAA transmitter, and the radios can be easily tuned to find the clearest signal nearest to the user's location.Midland All Hazard/Alert Weather Radios have an innovative automatic alert system. In the event of special warning broadcasts, the radio is automatically activated when the unit is in silent standby mode along with a loud tone, a flashing red LED indicator, and an "alert" message in the LCD.PRODUCT FEATURES: Alarm Clock; Instant Weather/Hazard Info; Digital Clock; 20 Programmable S.A.M.E.; Digital LCD readout; FM Radio; Ability to ADD new Alerts; Ability to Remove unwanted Alerts; External Jacks; Uses 4 AA Battery Backup.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works Well, November 19, 2002

By	R Marks "RSM" (Rochester, MN United States) - See all my reviews

I have had this weather radio for a couple of years. Having specific area message encoding is very helpful and keeps it from going off for disturbances in neighboring counties. It is relatively easy to program, but it helps to have the directions available. One must go to the NOAA web site to get the county codes, so access to the internet is needed to program it.
Recomended.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works Well, January 9, 2003

By	Michael J. Bahr - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This seems to work as advertised. One feature that has not been mentioned is that you can add up to 3 new SAME alert codes. This may be useful in the future for new codes for warnings, AMBER alerts, etc. On the con side, I tried to wall mount the radio about four feet high. It is difficult for a 6 foot person to read the LCD display at that height. I think the LCD's just are not easily seen unless you look at them almost straight on. But when I put the radio on a desk, it was much easier to read the LCD display.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great little weather radio, December 9, 2003

By A Customer

I bought this Weaher radio after hours and hours of trying to find one that had a price that I could afford and the options (S.A.M.E.) that I wanted. I have to say that this radio has worked flawlessly. I went to the NOAA's website to get my county code, programmed it in and now I get nothing but alerts for the county I live in thanks to the S.A.M.E. technology. The NWS runs a Emergency Alert system test on it every Wednesday at 2:00pm in my area which lets me know that they are alive. It does take some playing around with to figure some things out, but nothing too complicated. This is a great weather radio and I highly recommend it.