Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
Radio Shack sells them, for well under $100. However, the model I had
can only be programmed for location, not for alert type. (i.e. you can
program which counties it'll go off for, but it'll go off for all types
of alert for those counties. If they issue another Amber Alert at 3am
I'm going to turn the d*mned thing off...)

So they are doing that. I saw it coming but never got that far. Mine went
off permanently on May 22, 2004, after being awakened twice in three hours
for a thunderstorm *watch* (which wasn't important enough to "tone out"
at 12:06 AM when it was issued). I was two pages into a letter to my
Congresswoman before I found out that the amber alerts soon to come were
mandated by Congress.

The web sellers of these things don't make it easy to determine whether
their radios allow programming by type of alert. Though one did offer
a selection something like normal/priority/emergency, that doesn't help
because they'll probably make all the amber alerts emergency status.
I'd love to see a list of weather radios by feature that included this
information.

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