1. Time display is small and therefore makes it almost useless as an alarm clock. The year is displayed LARGE if you don't know what year it is. Da!
2. The LCD is dim if not looked at strait on.
3. Setting the time and all the functions is rather difficult and works different than the manual.

Weather alerts work OK but don't know about overall reliability. Will probably return it or will just use it for weather alerts and forget about the time and alarm function.

Love this. Since we've had a ton of storms roll our way this is awesome to keep us updated and informed when warnings are no longer in effect when we're stuck in the basement. Thanks for this great product.

Ordered this radio because it had a separate antenna to improve reception in our large facility. We have about a dozen hand-held NOAA radios in various departments. Some of them have difficulty with reception of weather warnings. The reason I rated this radio at a moderately good level is because the manual is incomplete and very sparse on the actual operation of the radio. Other than the separate antenna, it performs about the same as units that we paid much less for. While this radio is adequate for the purpose of receiving NOAA warnings, its performance did not equal the premium that we paid over the hand-held units from another manufacturer. If a more robust and better documented unit was availble I would buy one, even if the cost was greater. I would recommend looking elsewhere than to Midland for this type of product.