Most weather radios receive NOAA's 24-hour forecast stations automatically. But the real value comes from SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) alerts — which allow you to program your radio to only sound for your specific county.
Without SAME programming, your radio will alert for every watch or warning in your region — which creates alert fatigue. Programming takes about 10 minutes and makes the radio dramatically more useful.
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