I don't mean to be critical of your review, which is very detailed, but you can't really compare a weather alert radio to a radio scanner - especially a specific model or two... A alert radio and a scanner have completely different design attributes. As for the channel numbering, there is no correct order - NWS has them listed in ascending order and each manufacturer can list them in whatever order they want. Neither of the radios are "wrong," and it doesn't really matter anyways if they were in some 'official' order, as long as the end user puts the right one in. In addition, since this is clearly a base station radio, what use would the missing "scan" feature have anyways. The transmitter sites do not overlap WWA's so if the main site went down you would not get the alerts even if it did scan to another transmitter. You shouldn't be moving a base radio enough to have to scan through the channels - just change it manually when you move to another geogrpahic location.
I guess I'm more curious as to why you compared it to a scanner, but did not address the PC and External Alert ports on the rear. I can see an external alert to be useful, but I am confused as to what could be so complicated on that device that you would need a computer interface.
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