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Question: Is there a particular time of day this thing is supposed to run a test?
Document: This is an excellent radio. I never would have expected R.B.D.S. on a weather radio but what a nice feature. I listen to classical music on FM and the sound is amazing for such a small speaker. The only problem I've encountered is with the automatic clock setting. It is supposed to update the correct time from the R.B.D.S. system. One day it displayed a random time and date in the year 2055!
According to the television, that was turned all the way up so that we could hear -still barely from the wind noise-, it was about 10 miles away at an intersection down the street. We quickly got in the closet and rode it out. Fifteen minutes later there were no clouds and the sun shone for the first time that day.When I first set the radio I was hoping to get the weekly test signal to see if it was working properly.
I purchased this radio because it had an external output for a strobe or other secondary alarm. There is absolutely no documentation on how this feature is supposed to work unfortunately. After getting a cryptic message back from Sangean that the external output is a normally open contact and will close for an alarm, I figured out on my own that it uses a mono 3.5mm jack for the wiring. It worked great -- until the weekly mandated test alarm came in from the weather service.
I like this radio a lot. It gets very good FM reception compared to my previous radio, and for me that's what counts. One weird thing: I had it set to automatically sync the time via RBDS. After the daylight savings changeover, the date automatically reset to February 64th, 2043!...so I guess that's either a glitch of some kind, or is related to the RBDS signal sent by the particular radio stations used to sync the date/time.
GOTCHA #1. It will NOT recharge the batteries on AC. IF you go to DC you must recharge the batteries outside the unit. That is the one thing I would change in a model update.I like how you can block out some things that might be local however don't apply to your setting (flood alert for example).For me, on Wed afternoon, they do a required test, which just goes Yellow.
Only thing I do not care for is you can not turn off the weekly test. Yes you can turn odd the alarm sound for it but not the voice part.update on may the 19 2011.I am ready to junk this radio I have been unable to use it since a few weeks after I bought it. This is due to no way to turn off voice alerts for weekly test. I was told by this company there would be a new firmware.
It allows you to disable the alert siren for things like the Required Weekly Test BUT you cannot disable the Voice Alert for the same alerts. What this means is that if your receiver is set to VOICE mode rather than Siren then you cannot disable the alert and are still forced to hear it go off. Also, you cannot set the alert volume for Voice Alert. I just got a Tornado warning and the damn thing blasts you out of the room at full volume. I don't know why Sangean overlooked this.
I've run into crappy Chinese electronic components before and they can cause a lot of grief and wasted time before you figure out there is a mechanical dimension issue with the component.What a shame...
If you lose power, the unit works in all respects on battery power including radio and weather radio - a nice plus. I don't think it's meant to run on batteries for extended periods of time but its very nice that its fully functional on battery power - very nice.
The symbol on the screen changes only when you unplug the adapter from the radio. This is a poor flaw as the power could be off and it really is running on battery. I do not know the length of time it will run on battery, hopefully I will never need to know that but comments online state it goes through batteries quite fast, interpret that as you will. the alarm is very very loud, low volume will wake the dead. High will blow your ears out.
Answer: A time of week. Wednesday. Usually around 1100 or noon.