Your First Weather Radio-What Was It?

[Saul Trabal]

I've owned weather radios for over 30 years. My very first weather radio was a small blue radio from Radio Shack that had a tuner and volume control at the top. What was really cool about this weather radio was that I not only could hear the NOAA broadcasts, but I could also hear marine radio as well. it used a 9-volt battery.

I miss that old radio. I wish I could find it on Ebay. My current weather radio is a yellow Radio Shack Sports Weather Radio Alert with 7 channels and an alarm. It uses 3 AA batteries. I've had it for about 8 years now.

In my lifetime, I've owned 3 weather radios, and all were from Radio Shack.

 

[John Erwin]

I've almost always used either a scanner or a multi-band radio to monitor these channels, however I did buy a weather radio once from Radio Shack; it wasn't blue though, I think it was one of the white ones. Probably made by Midland originally and re-branded.

 

[Jeff House]

My first weather radio was a retro box. It was literally a cube. The on/off was a white bar on the top. Volume and tuner were on the bottom. No channels; had to turn the tuner and hope for the best. The extendable transistor radio style antenna broke, retiring the radio. We've come quite a ways but this thread is fun stuff.

 

[Jason Foster]

Never had one.

My first weather radio is still yet to be purchased. I'm usually aware of storms early enough I can just turn on the scanner or ham (with wx freq.), and listen. Didn't see a need for another gadget....but that's just me. I do wish (and maybe the new one do), have the ham radios with the SAME codes so they turn on just like the wx radios

 

[Mike Davis]

First Wx radio was the very first model Radio Shaft put out. I have had almost every model, but now like the Oregon Scientific and Midland models

 

[Chris Lott]

My first weather radio is still yet to be purchased. I'm usually aware of storms early enough I can just turn on the scanner or ham (with wx freq.), and listen. Didn't see a need for another gadget....but that's just me. I do wish (and maybe the new one do), have the ham radios with the SAME codes so they turn on just like the wx radios

On my ham radio, I can have my radio on a certain frequency, while my radio is monitoring whatever wx frequency I have it on, without me actually listening to that wx channel. If I have it on alert mode and a watch or warning goes out from that wx channel, I get a loud ringing tone and the broadcast comes across and interrupts whatever frequency I'm listening to. I hope that wasn't too confusing.