Good weather / emergency radio

[SpatiallyAware]

I cycle through this every couple years... Midland, a couple other brands, and they all eventually stop working. Either the batteries die on their own, or some oddball internal issue with the radio, or maybe just bad luck.


What is a good, solid weather radio? I would like something that plugs in, but has batteries as a backup.

 

[herm0016]

http://www.ccrane.com/

they make good radios.

 

[ZaneNBK]

I've had this Midland weather radio (or a previous model of it) for years now and it still works great: http://www.amazon.com/Midland-WR-300...=weather+radio

It's wall powered with battery backup, has county-level alert filters, you can specify exactly which alerts you want it to alarm you about, etc..

 

[SpatiallyAware]

I've had this Midland weather radio (or a previous model of it) for years now and it still works great: http://www.amazon.com/Midland-WR-300...=weather+radio

It's wall powered with battery backup, has county-level alert filters, you can specify exactly which alerts you want it to alarm you about, etc..

My last one was the similar wr100, it lasted maybe a year. Now the batteries die on their own after a few weeks, even when it's plugged in.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

http://www.ccrane.com/

they make good radios.

They do look like good radios, but I don't really see any weather-specific home setups. Also, they pick up the 7 weather channels, but I would like something that does NOAA alerts as well.

 

[ZaneNBK]

My last one was the similar wr100, it lasted maybe a year. Now the batteries die on their own after a few weeks, even when it's plugged in.

Sounds like yours might be a bit broken somehow. I have one (the one I linked above), bought one for my mother-in-law and sisters and they're all still working great. I change out the batteries once a year at the beginning of the bad weather season and that's it.