First Alert Public Alert radio

• Public Alert model CEA 2009 certified with Externa
• weather-temperature-sensors
• 21 Piece Travel Tool Kit Set
• SAM-GTL-BKBOOK

I moved to a rural community in Kansas after living in a large city all my life. One day I was outside and thought I could hear testing of a tornado siren off in the distance. I immediately realized the tornado siren would be of no use to me during a storm and decided I needed to buy something to alert me of a severe weather event. I purchased this 18 months ago and have been extremely happy with its performance. I found it easy to program. I can get up in the morning and push the "listen" button and hear the weather forcast for the day. I keep mine in my kitchen and it is loud enough that it will wake you in the middle of the night if the alarm is sounded. you are able to control most of the alerts that it is designed to alert you with for example if you do not live in flood proned area you can turn off the alert for a flood watch etc. Some alerts have the option to be turned off but the machine is programmed to keep them on anyway such as a tornado warning. This radio has over 80 alerts programmed into the machine but not all will pertain to your area such as Kansas will never have an alarm go off for an avalanche. This machine can even alert you of an amber alert in your area. I highly recommend this device I have never experienced any kind of failure and have purchased one as a gift. This machine will also use rechargeable batteries that will continuously charge while the machine is plugged in, in the event of power failure it automatically changes over to battery power. Get it you will be glad you did.

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I bought this model or a similar one elsewhere, not sure which. I have the WX-150 which meets my home needs quite well. As the earlier reviewer mentioned, it is easy to edit the alerts, in fact, this radio has the ability to add alerts if new ones are created. I checked NOAA online and found that my radio has more alerts programmed than their online webpage. I'm still trying to find out if there are a few that need to be programmed in.

My model (this one?) has an output for a pulse that can start an external alarm system. The WX-200 (again, this one?), has an external speaker output. If one needs to alert a large area directly then you need to find a WX-200.

Pro:

easy to program

has two alarm clocks

good receiver

Con:

not much, the only complaint I have is that the 'power on' green light is a little too bright for placement near my bed. The alarm can be adjusted to be really loud, so this is really a nit.