Evaluation: 
Conclusion: Wouldn't feel safe without it!
Review: I have only had this for just over a year, but it has already woken me up several times in the middle of the night for a tornado warning up to ten minutes before the city's warning sirens went off. While everyone else is scrambling to get to shelter in time, my wife and I are already in a safe place listening to our Midland radio. This is well-built and clearly designed for all kinds of emergencies. I also appreciate all of the features - such as the ability to deactivate audible warnings for certain types of emergencies (like flood warnings if you live on a hill and do not care).
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Excellent radio, could be a life-saver
Review: The Midland WR300 is a great weather radio. It was easy to set up and works as advertised. I bought five more for gifts this Christmas, and I am sure that everybody will find this radio to be an excellent one.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Good buy
Review: I happened to catch this new for $8.50. Works well and has SAME technology. Can be set for watches and/or warnings.
Evaluation: 
Conclusion: Nice Radio
Review: The weather & storm side of this radio is great. We bought it because we slept through our town's tornado siren three months ago. Our grandson and his friend where staying over that night, and, yes, we had a tornado touch down about one mile from our house about midnight. Now, with the weather alerts we feel much more secure. However, the clock radio side has two, in our opinion, shortcomings that limit its use. First, the backlight can either be on or off, there is no brightness control. When "off", the time cannot be seen at night. When "on" it is too bright to sleep. Second, there is no "sleep" function. We like to go to sleep with the radio on and are used to our old radio which had a setting where the radio was on for 30 minutes. We can't do that on this radio. Everything else is great. Reception, alarm tone, etc.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Good radio - but some are defective
Review: I have used this radio model for several years. This model has great features and can provide critical alerts from bad weather. It's not easy to set up, but if you take the time to work with it, you can control which kinds of alerts are sounded. This is a great feature if you live in an area that gets a lot of alerts and if you don't want to be waked in the middle of the night because of alerts that you don't care about.
A warning: some individual radios are defective and don't alert properly. I had one that worked well for years, then stopped providing alerts. All of the other functions worked, just no emergency alerts. I bought a replacement and this one also did not alert. I returned that one and the replacement does alert properly.
I would advise that if you get one, watch it for a week or two to make sure that it's receiving the weekly test alert. If not, exchange it until you get one that does. It appears that Midland needs to monitor their quality control better.
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