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| Reviews Summary for Radio Shack 12-262 SAME WX Radio |
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Reviews: 4
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Average rating: 3.8/5
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MSRP: $69.99
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Description: An auto-tune SAME WX radio, with states and counties listed by their names, instead of having to enter FIPS codes. A .PDF manual is available online to preview the functions and operation.
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More info: http://www.radioshack.com
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KC9MSA
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 8, 2008 17:25
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A Must Have!!!
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Great little radio! Hot receive, a little troublesome to set up, but who cares, you'll only do it once!
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KA2EEV
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Rating: 3/5
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Aug 8, 2007 17:40
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Nice unit...but, has a downside.
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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One of the really nice things about this radio is the large LCD and its large size text messages. The LCD lights up with a bright cool blue whenever one of the keys is pressed and it also lights up for 60 seconds whenever there is an alert message. This is truly a great weather radio and it performs excellent on all counts...but, unfortunately, it does have some flaws. Let me just say, that I don't consider myself to be a slouch when it comes to setting up and programming radio equipment. I've done my share of ham rigs and other miscellaneous gear over the years. I found this unit, however, to be somewhat awkward and frustrating regarding the settings to store your state and county. It actually took me a while to get the knack of entering and saving the required data. Radio Shack has every state and each county for every state preprogrammed into the unit. You must first figure out how to get to these settings and then figure out how to enter and save them. The owners manual is sorely lacking on clear instructions. It would be so much easier to enter the FIPS (S.A.M.E.) codes in a logical sequence like most other weather radios. The Radio Shack 12-262 is really a great and reliable unit, but, trying to program it for your local area is like driving through a clumsy maze.
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KV4BL
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Rating: 2/5
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Jul 29, 2007 16:59
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A Step Backward In Technology
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Only had it a short time but it earned poor marks with poor design. I had a several-years-older Radio Shack SAME WX monitor and it had a wonderful feature wherin when a "mute" data burst was sent at the end of an alert by NWS, the radio would instantly mute itself and remain silent until I hit the monitor button or another alert was sent. This newer model incorporates the same dumb technology found on some Midland WX radios in which the radio continues to blare out unwanted babble for 5 minutes after the important alert has been broadcast. To silence it, I have to get out of bed, run from another room, or other unnecessary act of inconvenience and hit the button on the radio. That, or lay there and listen to the babble for the required 5 minutes. What was Radio Shack's(or any other manufacturer, for tha matter)R&D section thinking when they omitted the mute decoder? Were they thinking anything at all, then? If their goal was price reduction, they struck out with me as I would gladly pay another twenty or more dollars per unit to have the auto mute back.
C'mon RS, you can do better!
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K5OQ
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Rating: 5/5
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May 5, 2006 12:43
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Versatile SAME WX Rcvr
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I bought this RS 12-262 SAME WX radio and a Midland WR-300 to tune to overlapping NOAA stations here in rural NE TX. The radio auto-tunes to the strongest NOAA signal, or you can enter a station channel manually. The default is to broadcast ALL alerts from ALL counties covered by the NOAA station you locked onto.
The state and counties are in a list by names. You can select the state and county name(s)you want - and then through a somewhat convoluted process, you can block the alerts you do not want to hear.
I also bought the Midland WR-300 radio and commented on both the Midland and the RS on my Web page, in a lengthy article aimed mostly at non-hams. (www.home.earthlink.net/~rickhgtx/hamradio.html)
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