Not a Great All-Rounder
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I was looking for a radio/alarm clock that also had weather alert functionality. I settled on the WR300 since it seemed to check all the boxes.
The set-up instructions are wrong in places, but if you follow the set-up you'll understand the basic method and can figure out how to achieve something even if the actual instructions don't work. Irritating, but not a deal breaker. I set-up my WR300 in about 20 minutes, which included getting the S.A.M.E. county codes off the internet. It's not that hard to be fair.
We finally had our first weather event a few weeks ago. When Mr. T. Nado paid a visit to our town recently, my Midland WR300 went ballistic! Good to know it's paying attention to what's going on. From a weather alert monitoring and alerting standpoint, the WR300 is all good. I hope it doesn't die in 6, 9 or 12 months like other customers have reported. I guess I'll see.
As for being an everyday alarm clock radio, it's not that great for a few reasons.
1. The back lit screen display, while a pretty blue, is way too bright. At night in a dark room, it really lights the place up. Distracting for me. You can turn the back light off, but then you cannot see the time when the room is dark. It needs a light sensor so it dims when the light level is low.
2. The time component of the display is tiny. Located in the top right corner of the display, the digit size is smaller than the digit size of the year which is located in the center of the display. How dumb is that? It would have made more sense to have these swapped around. Big time in the center and small year in the top right corner.
3. The slanting angle of the front makes the display impossible to read if your bed is at the same or similar height to the clock. Even if you had the overly bright back light on at night, you'd have to sit up in bed to see the display properly. If you're one of those people who wake up at night and want to sneak a peek at the time without having to move much, this clock is not for you.
So, for a weather alert/alarm clock radio it's great so far. For an everyday use clock, it's not so good. I decided to keep mine just for the weather/alarm functionality and will buy a separate digital display clock that's easy to read from a distance and dims the display in low light.