I want to use this radio as I travel in my travel trailer. Will it automatically issue me alerts for the region I am travelling in?
1480698
That is my understanding. When I set mine up I scanned for the strongest signal, which indicated the station closest to my physical location. I don't know whether it will shift stations dynamically as you change locations, or if you have to do it manually. I'd look for that answer on-line (or call up the distributor).
1480699
Yes. I never thought I would need something like this, but it sure is comforting having it. Works great. Very happy with it.
1480700
It defaults to scan the whole area, pretty much scanned the whole middle of my state initially, until I set the specific code for my county. I haven't had the issues that the previous reviewer had with the AC adapter. My weather radio is on all of the time on the AC adapter and only on the batteries when it is unplugged, which is not very often.
1480701
yes it will automatically find the weather alert channels in the area you are driving in or through but and this is a big but the batteries will die very quickly so you will need a huge supply of rechargeable batteries. The AC adapter does not work. I have had two AC adapters but both stopped working. So if you plan on keeping it on constantly then the batteries will die after about 12 hours of use.
1542624
I didn't see anything in the manual that it would provide an alert. No failure yet, so I can't say from personal experience.
1285616
As far as I can tell this little radio receiver will automtically home in on the nearest NOAA weather statation. The on/off slide swithch has a third position for weather alerts.
1443252
I have mine on side gate and a shed. Both give an alert on 2GIG alarm pad and send notice to my phone.
355731
i have not come upon this issue so i can't answer itwe us it in our motorhome. each time we arrive in a new spot, the channels are auto searched. only the ones i get appear.
1698481
Hello Kathie, Yes this one has the song alert feature. You will absolutely love this radio!!!
804698
The radio has a setting that allows it to automatically switch to the NOAA weather radio in the event of a weather alert regardless of what FRS or GMRS channel you are on. However, this radio will not re-broadcast the alert onto FRS or GMRS, it will only play the message over your own radio's speaker.
1974973
Short answer is yes. But you must set up the radio to first the frequency of a weather radio signal in your area and turn on the alert feature. Note that you will receive only official alerts from the weather service, and they are normally in advance of any TV or commercial radio alerts.
1117107
yes after you get a subscription you have to scan for a station that isnt currently assigned and program that in as your location.
1164663
I am unaware of any way to restrict the kind of bulletin received, other than to have it set to "travel" mode so it tracks your location and sends bulletins pertinent only to your current location. It is set to give any bulletins from the National Weather service or the Emergency Broadcast System. If the weather is good and no reason for a warning to be issued, you can go days without the radio squawking. However, you may want more info than just tornado info. The radio will also broadcast information regarding other emergencies, such as forest fires impacting road travel--pertinent here in the West--or flash flood warnings.
1226122
Yes you can! All you have to do is switch up the region to we're you live then you're good to go! It's very easy! Good luck!
1871047
I have a Midland 74-200 Weather radio. I plug it into the "external alert" jack.
536747
Seems to me then that the reception may bad where you have the second radio. Alert is turned on. the correct alert area setup. Should work
990358
No, not unless you set a Geo-Fence at that location and then it will. It is really a great product. I set geofences at several locations and it alerts me via text or email when they leave or enter these locations.
826962
Its satellite based, it will work anywhere. During setup your need to set your region .
40071
No not from an app, you can however set 1-5 alarms that will play whatever station you set it to.
477519
Yes. We have this set up for our travel trailer and have used it for 5 years now. You need to get an intermediate between the telephone dialer and the cell phone. Look for landline to cell phone devices. We used the Cobra PhoneLynx BT-215 Bluetooth Cell to Home Phone Adapter Connection System (which is also available on Amazon). You connect the dialer to the phonelynz and it calls out via a blue tooth connection. Only thing you need to do is add a long pause (4 full seconds) before dialling in the programming of the dialer to give the phone lynx time to connect to the cell phone. We used an old blue tooth compatible cell phone leftover from the old days and in a new sim card purchased from Rogers (Canadian company) and a prepared service card that has 100 minutes and one year of service for $100 dollars. If you are not in Canada you can shop around for the best deal. This means if the alarm is activated the trailer will call as many numbers as you program, to alert you it has gone off. It has worked faithfully for us. Since we leave pets in our travel trailer, we also bought a temperature monitor (also available from Skylynx) which would alert us if our air-conditioning failed and it got too hot for the pets in our travel trailer while we were away. It's kind of a fuss to set up initially and the programming is a pain but once it's in it works really well. I would suggest if you can avoid blue tooth connection do so, as we find the blue connection drops every so often for no apparent reason and you need to reset the telephone. The bluetooth system is older and I suspect there is a better way to connect a land line to a cell phone. (We also use solar power to avoid going through a 9 volt battery a day when we are not connected to a shore power source but that is another story.)