Midland WR400 Deluxe NOAA Emergency Weather Alert Radio - Stay Safe During Severe Weather

Dave: This is a good weather radio and you should have one at least in your house. It is VERY durable! Why can I say that? Because I'm writing this review 18 years after purchase and we still use it and it works great still.

Cons: Programming for alerts is a little awkward but the manual is pretty good and unless you move you only do that once. For example if you only want alerts for certain things in your area you can do that so it isn't going off for other events. In my case as an example we are very low flood risk so I have those alerts off but want tornado warnings.

United States on Oct 17, 2023

Squariel: In constant use over the past four years for hurricane and other weather updates here on the Florida coast. Got an error code and couldn't use the menu functions. Midland support responded same day to my email to explain the code. Cleaned the switches under the rubber boot with DeoxIT and works perfectly again. Excellent tech support on a product well past the warranty period.

United States on Oct 13, 2023

Phoenix Lain: I able to figure out how to program it without even reading the directions, but I did go back and read up all the details to see if I missed anything. It actually has a lot of different alert options from visual, sound, and voice. The AM/FM works, although I imagine your reception has more to do with your location and surroundings than it does the radio.

I see people complaining about it not giving off alerts, did you not choose your state and county? There’s no way it doesn’t go off unless somehow you screwed up when you were programming it. It’s not a smart radio, it doesn’t have GPS to locate your exact coordinates, so it won’t give you alerts without programming it. As long as you choose your state and county, you can know with certainty it’ll work. The S.A.M.E stations are pretty easy to check as there’s only handful of national codes, and depending on your region, the same codes can/will be different for someone in New York vs someone in Texas. I was able to pick up around 4-5 different codes (areas) within my state by moving the antenna around. I found most of them to be pretty similar in content outside of one that is located around 200+ miles away....

United States on Sep 08, 2023

ameede: The alarm is loud, very loud, and that volume when the alarm goes off is not adjustable, the voice on the radio is adjustable but not the alarm itself. They need to include the feature of a remote that will turn off the alarm otherwise you’re getting up a lot to shut off the alarm. There has been storms here throughout the day and I have gotten up several times already to shut off the alarm. It’s a real inconvenience but the product is solid, easy to setup and does what it is suppose to do. It has three different colored warning lights that are nice to keep you informed about any storms in your area. I plan on keeping it but I wouldn’t buy another one with it being so loud. It does not matter where you are in the house you hear it clearly, again it needs a remote to turn off the remote. Oooops, there it goes and here I go.

United States on Aug 07, 2023

JPGB: Livraison bien plus rapide qu'annoncée.
Prévue pour le 18... Arrivée le 10.
Photo témoin de la livraison (achat depuis la France)

Canada on Jan 12, 2023

the_eskimo: J'ai eu pendant quelques temps, le modèle ancien, le WR300. Ce modèle-ci, le WR400, on a corrigé beaucoup des problèmes de l'ancien modèle. Surtout l'affichage! Très lisible, avec des GROS chiffres et le texte de l'alerte est très facile à lire.

De plus les voyants d'avertissement peuvent facilement être vu de loin (ce qui n'était pas le cas avec l'ancien modèle).

De plus pour nous les francophones au Canada, ce modèle est tri-lingue: Anglais, Espagnol et Français! On peut convertir les menus et le libellé de toutes les alertes en français! J'ai grandement apprécié cela! Le manuel est aussi dans les trois langues.

Aussi grandement apprécié: On n'est plus obligé de connaître d'avance le(s) numéro(s) de 6 chiffres pour recevoir uniquement les alertes qui me concernent. Il n'y a qu'à suivre les menus et répondre aux questions! Quel pays? Quelle province? Et choisir la (ou les) région(s) appropriée(s). La radio connaît tous les codes! Pour quiconque qui a déjà eu à programmer ce genre de radio, c'est tout simplement génial! Ca facilite de beaucoup sa programmation.

Réception: Selon ma petite expérience avec d'autres radios...

Canada on Feb 13, 2022

Sythe: I expected this unit would work in Canada but it is barely able to receive signals from 40 Km's away. I had to (as per customer service instructions) put it in a window with the antenna against the window. Looks terrible.

Canada on Nov 10, 2018

SAT: El reloj, radio y alarmas funcionan muy bien. Tiene una recepción buena y un sonido claro y adecuado. El sonido de la alarma es fuerte aunque no es el mismo de la alerta sísmica. Intentamos que funcionará solo con baterías recargables de 2100 mah y funciona, el problema es que terminaba la carga en 3 días lo que a la larga es molesto. Esta diseñado para estar conectado siempre a la energía eléctrica y las baterías solo como respaldo. Funciona sin problemas en la CDMA en la banda 7. Hay que configurarlo para que no suenen las alarmas que trae activadas.

Mexico on Nov 26, 2017

SERGIO: Anteriormente tuve la version w300, recomendable, lo cambie por tiempo de funcionamiento.
Amigable, pantalla con buena definicion, ahora la forma de configurar es mas sencilla, en comparación con el w300, se agregó un puerto USB para carga, funcional siempre y cuando en una emergencia tengas baterias extras.
El diseño en negro es mejor, a mi gusto.
Eso si cuando configures, asegúrate de poner en modo apagado la "prueba semanal obligatoria" ya que si no te darás un pequeño susto cada 3 horas.
No debe faltar en tu casa y oficina... esta alarma se activa algunos segundos antes que la alerta oficial en CDMX.
Les recomiendo configurar en canal 5 o 7
Saludos.

Mexico on Oct 02, 2017

KatyKatMidwest: This radio looks really good wherever you place it. Ours looked exactly as advertised.
The design is not obtrusive, doesn't require a huge footprint, and the buttons are easy to use.

The only DOWNSIDE I found is a major one - the battery consumption is apparently off the charts.
I didn't put cheapie batteries in it either - I got the blue lithium Energizer batteries.
That is the only one we use in our digital cameras due to their ability to last. I take an average of
500 photos a month between my home business and our family and pets, and get at least a month of camera
usage from a set. (I date them all with a Sharpie so I know how long they last.) Even when they are spent
for camera purposes, they still have enough power in them to get our haircutters going, so they are great batteries.

Anyway, I put in a brand new set of the blue lithiums 24 DAYS ago. I had the radio turned on to program it,
but other than that, turned it off until/unless severe storms were in the area. We hadn't had any, so it wasn't
sitting in the "on" position, listening to the regular radio, etc etc.

We had reason to use it this past Saturday, April 24th, when...

United States on Apr 26, 2010