Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've owned many weather radio's over the years and I like this one the best. Sound quality is very good on this radio. It has a good size speaker and bass / treb controls. The voice of the weather service is very clean and clear on this radio. The display is excellent. It displays all relevant information and is easily viewed from almost any angle. It has a brightness and contrast control as well as the ability to program the duration that the back light remains lit. Build quality is superb. Update 01/25/2011: I have found a few minor annoyances with this radio. It allows you to disable the alert siren for things like the Required Weekly Test BUT you cannot disable the Voice Alert for the same alerts. What this means is that if your receiver is set to VOICE mode rather than Siren then you cannot disable the alert and are still forced to hear it go off. Also, you cannot set the alert volume for Voice Alert. I just got a Tornado warning and the damn thing blasts you out of the room at full volume. I don't know why Sangean overlooked this. If your radio is set to Siren you can set it to LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH volume. I wonder if there will be some sort of software or firmware upgrade because in the menu there is a way to display the software version. Mine is version 1.11 dated June 24, 2010 UPDATE: 06/22/2011 Sangean generously offered to update the firmware on my radio. The firmware version that I now have is 1.13 dated October 08, 2010. The radio now allows me to defeat a VOICE Alert and I've just verified that the "Required Weekly Test" does not set off the radio. It still shows the Advisory LED and a readout tells you what is going on but the radio is silent. YAY! UPDATE 7/8/2019: I have 2 of these radios from 2010. Both have been great up until I noticed that the backlight on one of them is now dead. The radio still plays but I can’t read the screen. As far as the battery drain problem that more recent reviews talk about, both of mine (older models) have NEVER had that issue. I just checked the batteries in both of them and I still have full charge on batteries that are more than a year old. I’m hesitant to buy a replacement radio for the one with the failed backlight because I don’t want one that drains batteries either. I’ll keep my eyes on the one with the dead backlight. If the alerts fail then I’ll have to make a decision. Maybe Sangean can repair this one.