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It would be totally inadequate in an emergency. I bought an add-on antenna from Radio Shack and could then barely recieve the station, sometimes readable, other times not at all. I could not pick them up with the included antenna. I threw it away. This radio is a miserable reciever. I live about 12 miles from a NOAA transmitter with absolutely no impediment to the signal from hills etc. This is a useless product.
Spend your money on something else. Very often it puts out a growling noise that totally drowns out any broadcast that I may be trying to listen to. I live about 40 miles from our NOAA broadcast station. For this radio to pick up thier broadcast, I have to hold the radio in my hands and face it South. I've always been happy with Midland products, but they have themselves a lemon here.
But take it outside and it works fine. I'll be returning mine, as I do live in a mobile home, too much metal I suppose. I purchased this WR 10 at Walmart's for $29.00. AM and FM reception is fine, but no weather reception at all inside a mobile home. I tried in in every room and nothing.
(The radio originally sold for about 30 bucks at Wal-Mart). The radio does EXACTLY what it's intended to do.give weather information and weather alerts, and it also has the AM and FM bands.You can set the radio to be absolutely quiet until it receives a weather alert.
The radio is made in China, but then, just about everything in Wal-Mart comes from the Orient. There are a number of other neat features which I won't go into here.
The instructions are very clear and an included pamphlet gives the NOAA weather frequencies for all the major cities in the USA,(which can be easily set at the bottom of the radio). My only problem.
My local Wal-Mart store in Naples, Florida is selling Midland WR-10 Weather Radios for two bucks ($2.00) each. I bought about a dozen of them to pass out to my friends.
So RUN to your local Wal-Mart and see if they still have any left at this absolutely amazing price.
The buttons aren't working. I just purchased this radio locally, and I'm going to have to return it. Considering that I've had trouble with another model weather radio from Midland, I wouldn't buy another product made by that company.
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