Retekess PR15 Portable NOAA Weather Radio with Emergency Alerts

J. M.: I can’t attest to longevity yet since I just got this. That’s said, after popping two AAA batteries in, turned it on and works very well. Great reception, and clarity of sound on AM/FM channels (haven’t treated NOAA yet), even without extending the antennae (at least in the city).

It is compact and lightweight. I don’t suspect it would survive a drop onto a hard surface, but I’ll take my chances. Got this for a go-bag, and works well for that application.

Also love the hinged battery cover so you don’t accidentally lose it. Nice thought out feature.

I’ll update if anything changes.

United States on Nov 20, 2023

MIKE: This radio is smaller than I thought, that’s a good thing if you’re going to put it in your pocket! No weather band stations where we live. Reception could be a little better. May be the short antenna. But works fine when it’s against your body in your pocket.

Canada on Oct 23, 2023

jasonfoster: Small but good sound. I use mine for the NOAA weather and it picks up my station perfectly. Definitely recommend it

United States on Sep 15, 2023

Amazon Customer: It works. It’s tiny. I love it in my pack.

Canada on Aug 31, 2023

YellowAndGreenBoardBuddy: I live in a major city with lots of local stations with transmitters only a few miles away, so this radio works OK at home. But on the road is a different story. For any distance, its performance is spotty at best. Whether FM, AM or WX radio, the reception will be weak or non-existent if you are more than 20 or 30 miles away.

United States on Aug 02, 2023

W.J.D: The media could not be loaded.  I got this radio mainly for the NOAA weather band functionality and it does just that very well. It arrived just in time for several rounds of severe weather over the course of 4 days. I follow the weather closely so when I knew severe weather was coming in and I needed to do other things I would just turn it on and leave it nearby. My local weather tower comes in clear as day and I am able to pick up about 3 other ones, one of them being 80 miles away with some static but you can hear it well enough. If you want to look up NWS radio towers near you search for "nwr coverage map".

Besides the weather I have also found myself just using it for noise when I'm outside. The batteries seem to last a while. It's been about a week and it's still on the same set of Amazon rechargeable batteries which are a few years old now and it's still going, albeit with on/off use over the past week.

Now if you are looking for a NOAA "alert" radio this is not it! A NOAA alert radio stays on standby and rings an alarm when a weather alert comes in. On this radio you have WB, FM, and AM options, so you have to manually turn it on and set it to WB to get...

United States on Jul 05, 2023

Nickoli Bearsnaresnic: This radio about the size of a deck of cards.Good build quality.
Does everything pretty well but struggles a bit on fm reception.But the radio sounds good esp on fm with my panasonic headphones.
Pulls in the am and noaa weather band stations.
I can get all three of my Noaa weather stations all from 20 to 40 miles away.--------My AM emergency alert system stations two both 130 miles away.
But on Fm it just could not pull in fringe stations some of my other radios can.
Overall nice.Happy with it

United States on Mar 24, 2023

DANIEL RODRIGUES LOPES FILHO: Bom volume, boa qualidade de som. Porém,SINTONIA DAS ESTAÇÕES, principalmente FM, deixa MUITO a desejar.

Brazil on Mar 08, 2023

Mario CastroMario Castro: Este radio es bastante pequeño, del tamaño proporcional a una tarjeta bancaria, ligero, de buena recepción de audio y la sintonización es fácil de lograr, siempre y cuando las baterías tengan buena energía, de lo contrario se pierde la nitidez. Pienso que su principal ventaja es la portabilidad, pues puede caber perfectamente en tu bolsillo o en un compartimento de la mochila tal es que veces te olvidas que lo llevas, con el riesgo de caerse pues no se siente. Consume muy rápido las baterías, pues con uso moderado de 2-3 horas diarias las baterías se agotan rápidamente no durando más de una semana por lo que complementarlo con baterías extras recargables que tengo extra fue una solución, dado a qué su uso es plenamente ocasional. Otro posible contra es que hay que cuidar mucho el acabado, para mantenertelo, pues con la simple manipulación básica se raya tanto la pantalla como el acabado externo metálico (anexo fotos). La onda corta presenta una recepción variable, dependiendo del entorno de recepción, en mi caso es funcional pues se recibe bien la frecuencia de alertamiento de riesgos del Gobierno de la CDMX. Aun con todo es parte de mi kit de emergencias y de...

Mexico on Feb 11, 2023

Practical Guy: I have heard some people complain that this radio sounds out of phase when using the headphone jack and I agree there is something funny with it and it sounds mildly out of phase. I'm not sure it's fully out of phase due to incorrect wiring so I think this is wired correctly and it's a characteristic of the DSP chip that also has it's own audio amplifier build in. It's a cheap radio and so its not going to have the highest sound quality. But I found that certain stations and songs are hard to tell it is out of phase so it maybe only under certain tuning conditions that it's an obvious issue. What is great is that it's a simple analogue radio interface with a DSP that locks the signal well. I find tuning on this decent, you have to move the dial really slow as stations are really close on that small band display. If you get used to tuning slowly once it locks its works well and sounds clean and clear and headphones on FM are full sounding! I think its sounds really decent for a walking radio where yon;y not concentrating on stereo image and phase. Weather band is a bonus and works as a 1 station. You just scroll through and you'll find the NOAA in your area if within range.

Canada on Aug 10, 2020