Know your gear
This product complies with the exacting standards for CEA-2009A Public Alert devices, and will provide you with the information you need for your greatest safety from the effects of weather and other external hazards. It receives digitally encoded civil and weather emergency alert messages and has a receiver that tunes to the 24/7 broadcasts issued by the National Weather Service. Your Motorola MWR839 weather alert radio receives all 7 NOAA weather channels and uses Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) to identify specific areas, like a county or portion of a state.