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I had a problem with the antenna,I broke it, when I unpacked the radio. I contacted Midland and they got back to me right away. They sent me a replacement, which I received in just a few days. I was so pleased with their fast response, and they really support their product.
With all of the severe storms that are common here in the Midwest and the nearness of several F3 and F4 Tornado's to my community, I needed something to notify my family of severe weather and warnings. To the Rescue, Amazon.com. A local TV weather show was promoting the Midland WR100B and a local drug storm was offering the radio for sale at a discounted rate. As you may expect, when several major weather events happened in the area, this unit was off the shelves very quickly and hard to keep in stock. When on line, located a seller, purchased and had on my door step in two day. Price was better that the drug stores discounted rate and even free shipping was included, Thank you Amazon.
The radio alerts us when a new watch or warning comes even when asleep. With the recent weather it has been very good to have. The tv signal goes out but not this radio. With the battery back up it keeps us up to date.
We have had numerous severe weather alerts this year so we bought this weather radio. It's the same model being sold by a local tv station each year to promote weather safety, so we chose this model. It has worked well so far to notify us of weather alerts.
Of course, now I will never buy another Midland product. Here are a couple of things you should know if you are considering this radio.BLOOPThe volume control is digital, and volume is raised or lowered by depressing an 'up' or a 'down' button on the panel. I guess it couldn't take Texas weather.BLOOPSince it fritzed, I am now even more dissatisfied with it than when it was functional. Plus there is the option of listening to FM or, if you are the sort who does, AM. There is no reason one should need to depress a button nine times to turn the volume down. Even though it has a digital tuner, when the buttons are depressed there are no irritating noises, and that keeps me from getting depressed.
Whenever you turn on the radio to listen to a forecast, the on/off button-bar makes the same irritating, loud, electronic 'BLOOP'. Every time you depress a button, it makes an obnoxious, loud electronic 'BLOOP' tone. As you dial through the arthritic electronic menu to set your radio up, you will be treated to the same irritating 'BLOOP' every time you depress a button. BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP BLOOPSome people aren't bothered by it. I bought this radio in February 2008, and by February 2010 it would no longer receive broadcasts. Volume control is one of those things. The simple thumbwheel volume control is intuitive, fast, precise, quiet, and just about perfect in every way.
That one also has to listen to nine loud electronic blooping tones just to turn the volume down tells me that this radio was designed by engineers who never bothered to use it before it went to manufacture. It is beyond me why any sentient person would want a product with the sort of stupid and clumsy controls that this radio has. BLOOPAnd now it doesn't even receive weather broadcasts. You have nine pre-set volume levels. I did, however, buy a new weather radio, the simple, easy to use Sangean DT-400W.
BLOOPI found it obnoxious. But it still goes 'BLOOP'.The digital revolution has brought us many wonderful and useful electronic gadgets, but there are some things that just don't need to be digital, or if they are, they should be digital imitations of functional analog technology. Notice that the compact little Sangean radio has a thumbwheel volume control. Nifty little radio, the Sangean.
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