The Midland ER310 is a hand-crank emergency radio with a 2600 mAh lithium battery and four ways to keep it running: crank, solar, Micro USB, or 6 AA cells. It pulls AM, FM, and all 7 NOAA weather channels. The Weather Scan feature locks onto the strongest local NOAA channel and sounds the alert when a warning goes out, so the radio does the listening for you.
Power is the whole point. A full battery runs the radio for up to 32 hours. When the grid is down, about a minute of cranking buys roughly 9 minutes of listening time, and the rear solar panel trickles in a charge in direct sun. The 2600 mAh bank also pushes power back out over USB to top off a phone — slow, so treat it as a backup, not a daily charger.
Beyond the radio, you get a 130-lumen Cree LED flashlight with an SOS Morse mode and an ultrasonic dog whistle to help search teams find you. In the box: the radio with its built-in rechargeable battery, a Micro USB charging cable, and the owner's manual. Note: the ER310 is not SAME-compliant, so it alerts on any warning broadcast on the channel it locks onto, not just your county.
