The weekly alert siren alert went off the other day and I wasn't home but my wife had the day off. It scared the crap out of her, she thought something was on fire upstairs,
This must be why they have the test tone defeated by default.
I don't know about the WR-300, but my Radio Shack 12-258 will show
"Check Operation" if it doesn't receive the weekly test, so I have the test tone defeated.
The problem with "VOICE" is that the alert sounds for only 8 seconds, and what if you were outside or in the shower or in the far side of the house during those 8 seconds?
My Radio Shack 12-258 has a
missed alert reminder tone which sounds every 10 seconds or so, until you press the weather button to acknowldge the alert (similar to an answering machine alerting you to new messages).
One nice feature on this would be an Alert time stamp (or date at least). Or at least which number it is in the history of 10,
The school I work at received a
Reecom R-1630 from the
Department of Homeland Security FEMA and it has a log of the past 25 messagess, in the order they were received, with time/date stamp and alert type (including tests), it's a pretty neat radio. Also has an output for
audio and a "switched" output that can activate a
siren/strobe light, etc for the first few seconds of the alert ( I believe the switched output on my Radio Shack stays active for the entire alert period, so the Reecom would work better if someone wanted to have buzzer sound outside when an alert is issued, whereas the Radio Shack would work better if you wanted a light to be on during alerts) Can a person own too many weather radios?
