How To: NOAA Weather Radio Set Up - WR 120
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
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How-To video on how to set up your Midland NOAA Weather Radio WR-120. This is my first How-To video and I'm not the best "Public Speaker," but I'm trying to work on that! Enjoy!
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www.weather.gov/nwr/counties
S.A.M.E. Codes for Canada:
www.canada.ca/en/environment-...
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Breakdown:
00:00 Intro
00:44 External Power/Battery installation
01:26 Setting the time on the weather radio
02:21 Set the language
02:35 Set Location (Multiple, Single, or Any)
03:55 Inputting SAME codes, rough example
04:15 Look at the SAME codes website (also linked above)
05:52 Inputting SAME codes part 2 - FULL example
07:30 Set alert type (Voice, Display, Tone)
08:36 Alert Test
08:53 Set Channel (Weather Radio Frequency)
10:04 Backlight
10:16 Button Beeps
10:24 Weekly Test
11:09 Weather Alert is issued, how to stop the alert or alarm
11:24 Adjusting the volume of the weather radio
11:38 Symbols on-screen -- NOAA symbol on the screen, what it means | why it is important
11:43 Weather Radio On-Off Switch
11:57 Troubleshooting not getting weather alerts | no signal
12:27 External Ports
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I have the same type of radio. The other day when we had a severe weather outbreak, we could hear the warning alarm from anywhere in the house it is so loud.
6 years later and I’m using this tutorial! Great instructions!
Glad to hear it is helping you!
Very grateful for uploading the video especially for such an important item which is a matter of life and death for some which are staying in areas of constant Bad weather. Thanks g.b you
Thank you for watching! Feel free to share with your family and friends!
Ordered one the other day for Hurricane season and my new channel, thanks for the info!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for the information! Just got one of these and this helped so much!
You're very welcome!
Thank you I just found one of these complete in the box at a local GoodWill for a few $'s, and was a bit confused, as the manual was very sparse.
You're very welcome!
Great video! Thank you and God bless you
Thank you very much for watching!
Good info!
Great review!!!!!
Thank you!
Just got one of em today, it’s awesome!
Edit: I have the WR120 “EZ” tho
Sorry for the late reply, but this is the link for the EZ or B version: ruclips.net/video/x6JhlWjvCtY/видео.html
Thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out how to turn up the voice volume!
You're very welcome!
good information
Thanks for watching!
I have this radio. Worked for a while, very loud, then it stopped going off, then just today, found out after several months, it's because they were off lol.
That will do it!
@Limitless Media Since you are talking about the same counties I live in. I think I have everything set up right and been using this radio for years now. I was wondering do you get winter weather alerts? Every winter the weather service will put out something that I hear on daily AM / FM radio, but nothing never goes off on my weather radio. I was wondering if you experience the same thing. Wondering if NOAA is not sending out tone alarms for winter weather in our area?
This is a great question! My original WR 120 did not get winter weather alerts, but when I upgraded to the EZ/B model, I did begin to get a wider variety of weather alerts, including winter weather-related ones.
Here’s a few tips on this specific model:
1. If you take out the power cord, hold MENU, and plug it back in, the radio will reset. This will come in handy if your radio isn’t working.
2. Since NOAA is working on upgrading SAME codes, you can either manually change it to your portion of the county by changing the first digit, or you can make it alert for all of the county.
3. Upgraded versions of this radio have more features, including built in locations, actual event codes, and more.
4. Technically, the Retekess works the same way as the original model, but has some rebranding on it and such.
Mine looks just like this only it's a little bit different on the buttons and the setup features are different
Fun Fact: I have the Same exact weather alert radio!
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OK I will
I wish we had a service like this in Australia :( but we don't, it sucks.
I got mine new yesterday. How do I delete a location entry. How do I reset and start the radio over? Thanks..Arnie
Sorry if this is a late reply Arnold! If you would like to restart completely, disconnecting all power from the unite is the fast way to do it. Otherwise, to delete a location, as far as the SAME code, all you need to do is set all the numbers to 0
hello from rock county
Hello!
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this is a test, radio operation device, during potentially dangerous weather situations, specially built receivers are automatically active to this world
Mine is a little bit different than that one but it's the same radio I can't get it to say anything and it set on the right frequency
What type of adapter does it take? I lost mine. And the batteries didnt last long at all. Thanks
Hopefully this link shares, but this should be the correct replacement for you!
amzn.to/3ewBe8b
I followed the steps but the NOAA is flashing do what that means?
Where do you have the weather radio located? Sounds like it might be having a hard time getting a signal.
@@LimitlessProductionGroup Denton County from Little Elm TX. and I brought it from Walmart
I have a Midland wr-120 ez and all I needed was state and county and the numbers was already programed
Yes the newest model has made that easier!
@@LimitlessProductionGroup not to mention that they also have this type of feature on midland wr-400’s, though i’m not sure if it’s also on the midland wr-300 version 8 (newest version) since i don’t own one
I have the same radio and mine don't have the weekly test option. How do I get there?
@@LimitlessProductionGroup Thanks for getting back to me. I called Midland customer support and I had other issues with this weather radio, it was defective and they are sending me a new one in the mail for free. Thank goodness I called.
Hi there.
Can I get U.S weather alerts on that weather radio from Portugal ?
You could, but you won't get any alerts since you are too far away from the source of the alerts unfortunately.
I just bought one of these from Walmarts website it should be here around the 26th or the 25th, I have wanted one for a couple of years, so I’m definitely going to need to watch this video again when I get mine in the mail. It’s the exact same model. I live in Ohio though, I’m from South Carolina so I’m kind of used to severe weather out of curiosity if we move because we are talking about moving to South Carolina again or even to Florida is there a way to reset them so that I can fix it for the location that we are moving to?Just wondering. I am a weather freak. And they said the storm season this year? It’s going to be one for the record books. And I want to be prepared.
Glad to hear you picked one up! I am actually a meteorologist myself, and with a La Nina setting up, we will unfortunately and likely see a more active pattern. I chased a few tornado warned supercells in Minnesota a few days ago. I have a few videos on my page of them if you'd like to watch them!
To answer your question, yes, you are able to edit the locations you put into your radio to alert for! It's pretty easy!
@@LimitlessProductionGroup thanks ! I have a passion for 2 things meteorology and music I stay in touch with both sorry had to mention it! I bought mine online on Walmart’s website it’ll be here the 24 thru 26th, kind of wish I’d have gone to Walgreens and picked one up directly now lol. Yes I noticed we will see a more active pattern this year, me being from SC I have seen a few in my life but we may see strong ones sadly. Life threatening ones. (I hope not but it’s up to Mother Nature)
@@LimitlessProductionGroup Back when I lived in South Carolina we had one, in each bedroom and in both living rooms. But unfortunately some thing caused our house to burn down and we could not afford a new one. That’s kind of why I was questioning should I get a new one or not? Now that I did I think I should have definitely got a three-year warranty with it or a two-year warranty whatever it was. Because it may be broken when it comes or it may break when the power goes out. Of course I’m going to have back up batteries in it obviously. I just didn’t know how to program it because I was so young when we had it. I always thought it was so cool when they went off. For some reason I love storms but I don’t love to know that people are in the path of dangerous ones if that makes sensespread Like I watch tornado documentaries like I’m fascinated at the same time but I am also heartbroken because I know people are possibly losing their lives and their belongings at the same time if that makes sense. My mom was a police officer in the state of South Carolina, so she said to chase her fair share through Beaufort County. I think that was the name of the county I don’t remember right off. Anyway she’s a biracial Scottish immigrant to America since the 70s but anyway that doesn’t really matter she just told me all the fascinating stories about helping people and that did inspire me to have an interest in meteorology. When I was little there was one that came directly at our house I remember playing outside on my swingset suddenly it got dark and windy well first it got dark my mom said you need to come inside there is a tornado and I said I don’t want to come inside and she said OK just please come in if you feel strong winds. About 10 minutes after that I did so I stood there frozen like a human popsicle. When I seen a pretty well-defined funnel. It wasn’t very big but it was still scary. Because you never know what kind of damage they are going to cause. So my ass started for the house faster than it came at our house LOL also excuse the language.
It’s me (yes 2 accounts) but I got mine today. Got time right but I can’t figure out how to set the location so I’m watching your video still. I currently don’t have it plugged in so I got 3 AA batts. But I do have the cord so when I plug it in will it harm the batteries ? Or do I have to switch a switch to anything?
@@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98 Like right now my actual hometown? Is under a tornado watch. Kind of wish I would’ve added it because it went off right as I was adding the county I live in. I would have loved to of heard this thing go off..
How come My tones don’t go off for the other places I’ve selected I got friends in other parts of the US and I have there areas set with my radio correctly yet the tones don’t go off when the warning/watch/advisory are put into effect
I need to look into it more, but I am pretty sure the locations have to be within range of the weather radio. If your weather radio isn't in range of the transmitter, it won't get the alert.
@@LimitlessProductionGroup ah ok thanks
I have a question. Will it pick up alerts if the radio isn’t playing the weather broadcast
Yes
What Calhoun said, yes!
@@AudioWizard98 Thanks for the info! Now I know I don’t have to have it playing all the time.
No problem
I do have a question. In the set location option, in multiple, how do you delete some of the counties? Preferably, without a total reset. But if it's necessary...
Great question! Should be able to set them to all 0's
@@LimitlessProductionGroup oh, do you mean when you go to input the nwr coverage codes?
@@TamaraGrace yes correct!
@@LimitlessProductionGroup awesome! I'll give that a try. Thanks so much!
@@TamaraGrace you're very welcome!
Are the SAME codes necessary? Because I just added my county that I live in. And that was it. Also thanks for letting me know I need to put it by the window. With the antenna up. Because I literally just got mine today. I also yes I have two accounts. I’m going to respond with my other one so if you respond I can get the alerts on my other one. I don’t stay logged in on this one.
So if you put in just the county, you're going to get an alert for just your county. What is nice about the SAME codes, is you can set it so you could get alerts from the neighboring counties as well if you wanted to for instance get a heads up of severe weather coming. I would set up my counties SAME codes, then the codes for all my surrounding counties so I knew what was coming way before anything ever entered my county.
@@LimitlessProductionGroup That’s actually pretty smart. I did a complete reset on it. But it did not go off when a severe thunderstorm warning was issued earlier. And we have more storms to go. And some of them look pretty dang bad. I was having trouble doing it I accidentally deleted my county somehow. I will figure it out later, if you could do a video on that for me and other people that don’t know how to do it for their weather radios that would be cool. Just that specifically.
I thought my video above covered that. If not, I could work on something possibly!
@@LimitlessProductionGroup No it did I just mean a more in-depth one. You did help me out a lot. I have trouble actually functioning reading instructions. So I looked up a video on how to set one up. It helped me out. I just hope it goes off the next time first alert I get. Lol
I could look into trying to get another more in depth one recorded!
Mine doesn't have language.
Doesn't have location but it does have five or six frequencies
is there a code list for Canada?
There is in fact a SAME code list for Canada! Here you go!
www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weatheradio/specific-area-message-encoding/forecast-regions.html
If its on snooze the alert still comes out right?
Only time the alert won't come out is if you have the black switch on the side of the radio turned to off. Otherwise, yes, the alert should still come out!
My Midland wr120 is all set up, how do I turn it on to listen to it without any warnings ?
As in the weather updates, or what exactly are you trying to listen to?
I figured it out, the Weather-Snooze button turns the radio on/off it doesn't look like a button, more like a design of the radio, it took me a minute of staring at it to figure it out.
8:08 I don't understand this part is the Display going to play a loud tone then Show it on screen???
Good question, going back and watching I did not do the best at explaining it.
There are three settings: Display, Tone, Voice
1) when you set it to DISPLAY, no tone will sound. There will only be a text alert visible.
2) When set to TONE, a tone will go off for 3 minutes or unti any button is pressed to stop it. A alert text will also be displayed.
3) when VOICE is selected, the tone will go off for about 5-8 seconds, then a voice will read off the broadcast for about 3 minutes
@@LimitlessProductionGroup Thanks I was Confused What u said
@@LimitlessProductionGroup I also have another Question When the Weekly Test Goes off If u have the display setting on will it Show it on display Or will it beep?
@@Jacobthehighwayfan that is a great question! I personally have never had both occur at the same time, so I am not 100% sure.
My friend birthday party is tomorrow I’m stuck on the set location part I don’t understand the SAME codes like why is it the same bro I don’t understand I just want to throw this away and smash it against the TV please help me
So instead of the SAME code, you could just put single. But let me ask you this, what is the city? I can get you the same codes to program for it.
Just bought the WR100 radio secondhand.
I cannot get the weather report.
It is programmed correctly; volume up.
Any clue?
I'd first check to make sure that the right side of the radio is set to on. If it is, I'd then make sure you set your radio to the proper frequency for the nearest transmitter near you. I have links in the description of this video for those frequencies.
If it is still not working after that, let me know, I have a few other possible solutions.
@@LimitlessProductionGroup Thank you for responding.
I have correct channel, 'same' code, turned on, antenna up...press weather snooze button, nothing.
No static or anything when scrolling through the 7 channels.
I'm ready to try any other suggestions, thank you.
Alright, so next thing to check, and I am not sure if the 100 has this feature or not, i just know the 120 did, but usually on the screen NOAA shows up if there is a signal and if it is not there, then it's not receiving a signal. If you don't have it near a window already. Bring it to a window, since it is easier for the signal to go through the window than the wall. If that still doesn't work, I'd pop some batteries in it if you dont have them in it already and walk outside to see if it gets a signal. If it still doesnt, I am wondering if the radio is broken or if the local transmitter is down.
@@LimitlessProductionGroup Thank you! Will work on it all later and report back. 😊
You're very welcome!
Is it possible to get fm or am radios on my weather radio?
No, these radios specifically deal with only weather. But there are other types that do AM, FM, and weather radios
Midland WR400 DELUXE NOAA WEATHER RADIO $74.99
County 18127 is Porter County, Indiana.
@@LimitlessProductionGroup Yes. I intentionally omitted that, as it usually isn't nonzero.
County 012021 Collier County
@@shawndenton2507 And county 081300 is not a county at all-It's East Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
What the external alert for
You can connect it to a strobe light for those who are deaf so that they can see the blinking light ans know an alert was issued.
Will this work in Canada 🇨🇦
Yes they should!
It's 2 AM in the morning and I do not have a weather radio.
Why am I watching this?
@@LimitlessProductionGroup I'm not in USA but thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Mine doesn't have a scan code I give up
I Have Mine For Any Because That's My Content Of My Channel
What does any mean?
I am not completely sure what you are asking. Could you please explain further?
Ah, I see, so for any location you get alerted for every alert for every county within range of your radio. That can sometimes be upwards of 12+ counties as the transmitters for the radio can extend out to 80 miles. Would not recommend that!
@@LimitlessProductionGroup so if you set it on ANY, it’ll go off for every county in the transmitter that you selected. like say if i was in somewhere like gaston county, nc, and my wr-400 notifies me for a SVR (severe thunderstorm warning) all the way in union county, nc or montgomery county, nc. will it do something like that?
@@jayCLTeeee yes and no, so when you set it to any, the radio will go off for any alert issued for any transmitter your radio falls under. Usually multiple overlap in case one transmitter goes down and they can have a back up.
@@LimitlessProductionGroup when you set it to ANY, are you even able to pick the transmitter you want, or will it go off for any transmitter as long as you have a good signal with some of them?
I'm in Denton county TX and it said in Dallas, Texas
Which did? An alert or the forecast section?
@@LimitlessProductionGroup an alert
@@LimitlessProductionGroup it didn't give me anything alerts
Your local NOAA station broadcasts alerts and forecasts for various locations around the station. It's normal.
do i call you he or she
They
@@LimitlessProductionGroup thanks
@@prettyglittergirl9863 You're welcome!
poor radio for concreat condos no way to connected external antenna for better reception hard to switch nack borth for local channels
had to turn off in order to change frequencies had to return for refund
Not sure what you mean about no way to attach an external antenna, there is a port in the back for exactly that.
This tutorial is a scam. I am trying to set it up and it won’t work.
Which model do you have?
For me this worked, you’ll probably have a different model