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Oregon Scientific WR102 Portable All Hazard Radio with S.A.M.E. Technology
Features:- Portable weather and hazard alert radio
- Digitally tunes all 7 NOAA weather/hazard channels
- SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) technology allows you to preprogram up to 9 specific areas of your choice
- Backlight display
- Digital clock with alarm
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - Old Model Weather Radio
There are newer models for portable weather radios that fix some of the problems in the reviews listed here, including the WR113 that includes a charging dock, and the WR601 that has non-volatile memory and a dock, so you don't have to input your SAME codes after the battery runs out.
Rating:  - Oregon Scientific Portable All Hazard Radio
A great tool to own especially when you are outdoor in the elements. It forecast the weather conditions, such as forth coming storms, the temperature, the winds speed and much more. Excellent gift for the outdoors persons!
Rating: - When I need it most all I get is static
I've had this radio for a couple years. It works OK in the city. When I went camping in the Adirondack Mountains all I got was static. OK, I wasn't too surprised, although I would think there would be service up there for the mountain climbers' safety (The ADKs have many peaks and is home to the Army's 10th Mountain Division).
But I was sure it would work on Cape Cod. Not in the campground in Orleans. Not even on the docks in Provincetown, surrounded by big commercial fishing trawlers, whale-watching ships catering to the tourists, and private luxury vessels. Now, WHERE, you might ask, would be a more likely place for NOAA to provide weather radio service? Oh, did I mention that Cape Cod is also home to the Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Institute?
Now that I'm home with a roof over my head and surrounded by brick walls, the darned thing won't stay off, it has to keep warning me about the thunderstorms currently rattling my windows. Now that I don't need it, it works great.
Rating:  - Less Than Expected
I bought the Oregon Scientific WR102 to supplement an older weather alert clock radio that did not have the SAME feature. I never could get it to work right. I set it according to the instructions and missed alerts that my other older radio picked up. My wife took the WR102 to work and tried to get it to work there and got the same results; it would not pick up local NOAA alerts. It would pick up the local NOAA station when the NOAA button was pressed.
I bought the Oregon Scientific WR103NX to replace my WR102 and it works fine. I have had no problem with it and both radios are programmed in exactly the same way. Maybe I just got a bad radio. It happens. My suggestion is to pay a little more for the WR103NX (which comes with a docking stand, alkaline batteries, DC converter and a "non-volatile" memory that preserves your settings if the batteries die).
Rating: - kayak, boaters weather radio
This does get the S.A.M.E. channels, has EOM also, but it loses the memory when your batteries go dead. I get only a few days from my rechargeable (option) batteries. Then I have to reprogram (yes, put the SAME codes back in) again. Thats a pain! It's been freezing up. On 8/4/08, it paid for itself. The Tornado warnings and Thunderstorm warnings were fast and furious in the upper midwest. Even Wrigley Field 41,000 people, was under a Tornado Warning. (3 touched down in the Chicago area.) (The above was added after a year of use.)
This was written a few months after I recieved it.
"I love this weather radio. I go kayaking and camping every weekend in the summer. This little radio is a must. When in State forests in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois.. storms come up fast. I always enter the local SAME numbers and have it on. Has saved me from being on the water or in the open.. many, many times when storms have suddenly come up."
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