It seems to work OK, had it about 6 weeks. I can get 2 or 3 weather channels very cleraly. I have only received one alert since I have had it, from a neighboring county that I had programmed to receive. I've not received any from our county - have not had bad weather but I assume it will work. The user manual is very poor, the on-line help is not any better - be prepared for trial and error to learn how to use it. There is more documentation provided on how to use the AM/FM radio than there is on how to use the weather features. The AM/FM works OK too, but you can only pre-sent 3 stations for each, but that's OK since the main purpose is for the weather information.