🌦️ First Alert Weather Radio,Red/Black (SFA150) - Stay Informed and Prepared! Review

If you like being alerted with a loud and annoying warning every hour, this clock is for you. Otherwise it's the worst. Doesn't count time, warnings fly on absolutely everything. I ended up taking it apart and cutting the wire to the speaker so I could sleep at night. I wouldn't even offer it to my worst enemy.

Feature set is good and it gets reception in my basement that other radios didn't have. What I don't like is that each button has multiple functions depending on how you press it (press and release or press and hold, etc.). This makes it less intuitive and more or less forces you to look up the instruction manual more than is required for something like a clock radio. It seems to be a trend for a lot of new electronics - no doubt someone's idea of saving - but I don't care.

The clock and radio in this clock radio was simple and easy to set up. However, the weather alert feature does not appear to be adjustable. When I was living in Wisconsin this summer, severe weather was almost a daily occurrence. The radio will be set to alarm (and very loud) whenever a severe weather alert is updated in your area. Therefore it sometimes worked several times a minute in the middle of the night. The area we were in and controlled by the National Weather Service included…

This product has a lot of bugs: 1. Volume is low: the volume is for radio only, and it is not loud enough when you turn it to Maximum2. FM can only receive ONE channel and the purity is acceptable. I have never had problems receiving channels in my house.3. AM CANNOT RECEIVE A CHANNEL4. You cannot select a specific type of alert, e.g. B. Flood, tsunami or tornado. NO AUDIBLE ALERT, only flashing light. If you weren't in this room (perhaps downstairs) you wouldn't see an important or critical…