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First Alert Public Alert Radio with S.A.M.E
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List Price: $69.95
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Manufacturer: First Alert
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: First Alert
Color: white
EAN: 0018359182896
Feature: Automatically alerts you to a wide variety of severe weather and civil emergencies in your area
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: First Alert
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: First Alert
Model: WX-150
Publisher: First Alert
Studio: First Alert
Variation Description: white
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Features
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Automatically alerts you to a wide variety of severe weather and civil emergencies in your area
Monitors NOAA weather band day and night, receiving a total of 79 emergency civil and severe weather messages
Utilizes S.A.M.E. to help you avoid non-local alerts, and is programmable to receive warnings for emergencies specific to your area
Easy-to-read digital LCD screen shows you time and date, and scrolls through message information during emergencies
Wall mountable, with a battery back-up for power outages, and a manufacturer's 90-day warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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continually monitors NOAA Weather Band radio * receives 79 different types of emergency messages * Specific Area Message Encoding (S.A.M.E.) broadcasts for up to nine different counties * siren alert * Public Alert certified *
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Like it now
Comment: Found it a little hard to work at first because we live in a poor reception area. I wasn't sure how it worked but found that it wasn't working at all. Then I moved it and get all the signals and test that it is working OK.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Ahh...Sleep
Comment: We bought this product for the programmable alerts. And, on that it delivers. I live on high ground in my county, so I don't need to be awakened in the middle of the night for a flood watch. I also don't want to be awakened for a T-Storm watch. This thing lets you set the alerts that sound the alarm-tone. If you have disabled an alarm it still receives the alert, presents a yellow (watch) or red (warning) light, and displays alert text on the console. If you wake up in the middle of the night you can still see the flashing red light of a warning message and get up and read it. It won't let you disable the alarm for tornado warnings, but that makes sense. The console has a light so the textual warning message can be read easily at night. You also can set the volume of the alarm-tone on this model.
The reason I removed a star from the rating is that the console isn't as informative as our old model. If you get an alarm for a T-Storm warning our old one would show the time remaining on the warning (e.g., 2Hr30Min). This new one doesn't appear to do that. I've been thru the manual (and pushed all the buttons) and if it does it... I can't seem to figure out how to get it to do that. Yeah sure, the red light remains on throughout the warning... but it would be nice to know how much time is left. So, you are left with pushing the radio button and listening to the weather service radio to hear them tell you the duration of the watch or warning. Or, as we have done, you might want to keep your old alert radio that does this and turn the alarm-tone completely off and use it to show the duration of the alerts.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Really, really programmable
Comment: This thing is fantastic. Our old weather alarm only let you program in "SAME" designations (just warnings for your county would go off). That was fine and good, but the darn thing went off all the time (we live in the Midwest, with lots of thunderstorms and rain). We needed a weather alarm because the outdoor tornado sirens are so quiet, I don't think they'd wake us up. On the other hand, I don't need to be woken up all night long every time they issue a flash flood warning (I'm not in my car, and we live on a hill, flash floods don't produce the kind of danger we need to be torn out of our beds at 3 am for).
Anyway, this one allows you to turn off EVERYTHING except tornado warning sirens. It is fantasic. We've been able to finally sleep all the way through the night, even if there are severe storms.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product
Comment: Using instructions programming is easy. You can select not only counties to receive alerts for, but also select only the alerts you are concerned about.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent product
Comment: This is an excellent alert radio. Easy to set up and program for alerts you desire.
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