weather radio
looking for a portable weather radio with noaa and am/fm bands saw some with hand crank charging and batteries anyone ever use any of these on the road? thanks in advance
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rk911 wrote:
if it were me i’d get one that...
- operates on both AC and battery power
- allows the user to connect an externally mounted antenna to increase range.
Ditto on that especially the external antrenna,.
I have several radios that can do Weather here (2 that do) One has an outside antenna (A 2 meter ham antenna) and is much much more "Senistive" (Has better range) than the pocket model. (The other is a pocket model) both run on either 12 volt house power or shore power.
NOTE: I would not go for the AM/FM/Weather because many of them do not "Alert" They will RECEIVER weather OR AM/FM but not both at the same time.
My "Alert" radio (the good one) does AM and FM on ham bands but every 5 seconds there is a "Blip" in the receive as it pops over to check for alert tones on the Weather (They last six seconds you see) This would be annoying if I were listening to something.. but since I set that half of the radio (Two radios in one box) to Scan.. It just restarts the scan so I can see if anything else is interesting.
Then if I want to listen/talk I use the other side.. Works great.
Also a VHF/UHF ham radio (receive at least they make Receive only) you can monitor the weather net (Skywarn) near you and have even more warning.
Take a class, get a license, then take a Skywarn class for the MOST warning.
