Customer Reviews:
 Nice SAME Technology Weatheradio April 21, 2005
86 out of 86 found this review helpful
After having tried just about every SAME technology weatheradio out there, I found the WR-300 to be one of the better ones, and definitely the best of the Midland weatheradios to date.
One of the best features it has is that it allows you to disable the audiable alerts for every watch/warning except life threatening ones like tornado warning, or biological hazard warning, etc. Other brands and models will only allow you to disable the most harmless events. I do not wish to be alerted at 3am because of a severe thunderstorm warning, or tornado watch. With the WR-300, I won't be alerted unless there is actually a tornado warning.
The blue LED backlit LCD display is pretty sharp looking, too! There is a menu feature that allows you to continuously keep the blue backlighting on, although I think it would be too bright in a bedroom at night, especially if the WR-300 is right next to the bed on a nightstand.
Some people have complained about the beeps for every keypress, and I did not find that to bother me. Maybe a softer "click" sound for every keypress would be better. Also, others have reported that their WR-300 leaked audio when the WX is muted. I did not have this problem at all; it worked fine for me.
Things I really liked about the WR-300:
1) Extensive audiable alert disable ability
2) Form factor and relatively small size
3) Blue backlit display
4) 4-AA battery backup (instead of 9v transistor batt)
5) Am/Fm/clock/alarm features
6) Menu flexibility (although not that intuitive)
I gave the WR-300 a 4 instead of 5 star rating because of the following minor issues:
1) No display of event(s) remaining time(s)
2) Menu navigation and master alert disable/enable operation was not intuitive.
3) No visual indication as to whether or not the master audible alert is enabled or disabled.
 Great Weather Radio/Great Price on Amazon December 6, 2004
32 out of 34 found this review helpful
I am really impressed with this weather radio! I had an older radio and every time there was an alert in my region the alarm would go off. We turned off the alarms and a tornado went 1/4 mile from our house and we never knew it. With this radio you set up your town(s) or area(s) you want alerts for. Then you can turn off some types of alerts (like avalanche alerts if you are not near a mountain) and let it do it's thing. Great to be able to have the alerts active but not be woken by river flooding 30 miles away (I live nowhere near a river).
 Good Weather Radio - one incredibly annoying problem.. December 5, 2004
318 out of 355 found this review helpful
Okay, as far as a basic weather radio, this unit is working fine. SAME technology helps me to avoid the miles-away-irreleveant alerts. The unit is easy to set up and use. Good reception and nice appearance.
One thing to keep in mind is that I had intended to use this thing as both a weather radio and a 'clock radio' for my bedside. Then the faults really emerge.
First, that #@!$% keyboard beep. Every time you press a key, it beeps - loudly - and you cannot turn it off. To do simple things, such as make the LCD backlight come-on, the thing beeps more than a George Carlin video being shown at prayer meetin'.
So forget touching the thing if someone is beeping...er.. sleeping in the room. So if you just want to turn on the clock light, for example, by pressing a key... it goes "BEEP!!!!" So forget using this as a 'clock radio' for your bed unless you sleep alone. And if you need to do something basic, like program a radio station, etc. get ready for a long series of "beep, beep, beep, beep, beep....aggghhh...beep beep" while you hit keys. Same goes if you want to scan radio stations.
Did anyone ever think about this during design?
 Poor reception October 9, 2004
7 out of 21 found this review helpful
This small radio has virtually no reception in this area without an external antenna. It is expensive to find this out and pay freight both ways + additional return charges.
Best Weather Gift for a weather geek September 14, 2004
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I want the thank my mom for buying The Midland Weather Radio 300 for my birthday! It was the best gift I had. I live near New York City and on occasion, severe weather rolls in and this weather radio has really warned us! I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to be safe.
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