Does The Radio Alarm For Everything, only warnings, or only the emergencies sutch as tornados and hurricanes?
751426
It will alert you to any National Weather Service emergency; thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, etc. If you have it on at other times it will simply give you the forecast for your region. Just be sure you have it set to alert if there is any bad weather headed your way.
385488
Yes, it has tornado warning. However, it doesn't show up in the "edit events" list because it is one of 25 alerts that cannot be disabled. Here is the complete list of alerts: https://midlandusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Editable-Events.pdf
331414
I don't think there is a "life time" for dependable alert notices. As long as it's up and running, it should give you reliable alerts. Ours just stopped working after one season (two separate radios). We'd plug it back in in spring and it wouldn't function...no lights, no alerts, nothing. Doesn't make sense. But I continue to buy these because they offer a great peace of mind during storm season, even if I have to replace it every season.
1568709
it has to be kept in a sense that its needs batteries in it and/or it needs to be plugged in to an outlet.The radio does not need to be on all the time to get an alert.NOAA send a signal to the radio to activate the radio.You can decide what type of alert you want audible alert and /or a visual alert its up to you,as it gives you that option.I hope that answers your question.
1546707
This alarm does not sound like a car alarm. It is a very loud whirling alarm. It will definitely be noticed by anyone in the vicinity and a distress call.
1860557
Only one of the four bands can be on at one time. If you're on FM then AM, Ham and weather are off, etc. Weather alerts do not break in automatically as they did on some older radios.
1038460
No, it just comes on when the alarm is triggered. It works well for the Midland weather radios. However, I own a couple of Radio Shack radios and the light will blink when the alert is sounded and keep on blinking even after the alarm has sounded. I guess it would stay on as long as the light on the front of the radio stays on. During test on Wednesday morning, the light came on and stayed on until I unplugged it from the radio. That would surely run the batteries down. I guess it was mainly designed for the Midland radios and not other brands of radios?
1923975
yes. Any alert can be excluded except for a tornado alert. It won't let you turn that one off.
1143381
Yes. Put it into the mode - it will blink - to give the emergency broadcast only.
1015971
We are extremely please with our radio. Give warnings to take shelter when tornado is in the surrounding area. Much better than the sirens in our town. Not certain why the other reviewer stated it does not turn on, ours does, maybe ours is a different model or newer. I have had ours turn on during late hours and was loud enough to wake me out of a sound sleep.
1698481
Hello Kathie, Yes this one has the song alert feature. You will absolutely love this radio!!!
1795547
Yes. I have my wired to constant power in my jeep... I can switch to listen to weather.. The emergency alert you are talking about has an off setting in menu. So you'll be good.
37283
not sure what you mean by smart weather alert. But you can set radio in Weather alert mode. Radio will remain in standby mode until there is a weather statement, watch or warning.
1133947
No unfortunately it does not and I have set off the alarm so many times that the neighbors no longer are responding to it siren, so I had to go with a national monitoring company.. To make this alarm effective, it needs to be used in the environments like a collage dorm as it was first was introduced... Or in a apartment building setting where it would make enough noise, that neighbors would call police complaining of the noise and send officers to investigate its origin...!
331413
I've owned a WR-100 since July 2010. It just died on me. Death for these is a high pitched squeal on all channels. Google it, and you'll find many others asking what that squeal on all channels means. It means your weather radio needs to be replaced.
531985
The Radio must be powered on to receive and broadcast weather alerts. This, like most weather radio's is 'set it and forget it', meaning once you plug in the fips code for your area, the radio sits quietly, not making a sound until the weather service sends out a special signal to activate the radio. It then broadcasts the alert. Once you hear the alert, you can press the WX/Snooze button (or wait for about 2 minutes) and it will be silent again. Find the FIPS code for your county or parish from NOAA at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/coverage/county_coverage.html
1080222
Yes. I have turned off all alerts except tornado warning (which also is an alert that you can't turn off). It is a tedious process however, so plan on a chunk of time and paying close attention to the instruction manual.