[Sidney Lanier]

We picked up a basic, simple Radio Shack NOAA radio, a few years old, on ebay for a few dollars. Nothing elegant, no AM/FM radio, no alarm clock, just early warning even though the bells and whistles are nice features. Took it to the fire station and the firefighter set it up in a minute to tune into the tower in Sumterville (the same channel 5 mentioned earlier in this thread); she called the tower a name that I'd never heard of, but apparently that's where our signal comes from. We discovered today that it works just fine; the system is tested twice on Wednesdays, 10-noon and again 6-8, and we heard it both times. Otherwise the radio sits on our dresser very quiet. We tend to keep it simple....