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Setup was easy although I had to look around on the web to find out what counties surround me to enter into the reciever. I did not, at first, set how the receiver was to alert me. I am still experimenting on that.
I have two of these radios, one for my home and one for my lake house. I like being able to program each one to alert me where I am and also at the other place. This allows me to keep up with the weather at both places, which is 60 miles apart. Works great good quality for the money.
The price is very reasonable and the radio is worth having for anyone in the path of potential tornadoes. Tornado warnings aren't the only kind of alarms you'll get on this. First, the bad. I always worry that a storm will hit at night without warning or when the power is out and I can't get weather information. There's been nights when it goes off every few hours due to thunderstorms or flood warnings, and the alarm is always the same until you head over to the unit to see what the brouhaha was about. It is loud enough to hear upstairs with the radio downstairs; since my husband works off shifts sometimes, that is a relief.But this really is a great unit that's reliable and easy to use. My worries have been put at ease. I also like that I can listen to the weather at my leisure, always a handy thing to have.
Finally I had to turn the thing off, as I was willing to be blown away by a tornado rather than being awakened again. I bought two of these units and gave one to my father-in-law as a gift. This thing is a medieval torture device. I was awake from nine to midnight two nights ago with one ear piercing alarm after the next. Either you take them all, or you have to have no alarm at all. Yes, it is nice to get weather updates at the push of a button, but we purchased this after a friend's house was taken down by a tornado, and we thought it would be nice to have something that warned us of impending doom coming in the night.
Can you say 'night mode'. As severe weather season just kicked in here in Wisconsin, I bet he is questioning my motivation. I don't want to be awakened unless I am in imminent peril. Unfortunately, it warns you of everything. There is a screeching alarm for a thunderstorm watch, then another for when it is upgraded to warning, then another for the tornado watch, then another for the flood watch, then the flood warning. Really, as hard as it is to believe, there is no way around these alarms.
In all other ways a nice radio, just don't plan on getting any sleep on stormy nights.
Luckily, we have other venues for weather tracking so I try to have someone call my daughter to alert her as we can not trust the Midlands at all. There are 15 of us on my weather blog who have Midlands and no ones has gone off, including today for the tornado watch over Kansas City.
For the past week we have gone under severe thunderstorm watches and warnings as well as tornado watches. I belong to a weather blog as well as being a stormchaser.
I live smack in the middle of tornado alley. According to my weather friends theirs sit silent as well.
I bought a Midland hoping to be able to warn my daughter of danger when I was at work. Since buying it four months ago ( I know it is programmed correctly) it has correctly gone off once out of about 12 alert times.
We can't all be programming incorrectly. Biggest waste of money ever.
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