
My wife and I bought this monitor for our newborn son's bedroom, and we are highly disappointed for a few reasons:
1. Excessive Static: We live in a new 3-level home (lower/main/upper), and we found that both channels offered on this receiver have too much static. What's worse is that sometimes the static gets even louder and more annoying than the constant buzzing static we hear the rest of the time. The louder static usually comes from walking too closely to certain electrical fixtures, such as our fluorescent torchiere lamp. Other times, however, the louder static comes simply from the handset being in a bad location. We move it a couple of feet in a different direction, and the loud static becomes quiet static. Any way you cut it, there is too much static for our liking.
2. Battery Hogs: The one handset that works on batteries (the second handset arrived broken, and it works only with the A/C adapter plugged into the wall) uses them up way too quickly. With just a few days of usage (several hours of usage each day), the handset completely drains brand new Energizer batteries (4 AAA batteries required). I tried rechargeable batteries, and they lasted ONE DAY! With such poor battery life, this monitor should have come with an A/C adapter for BOTH handsets. Instead, it came with just one.
3. Broken on Arrival: Only one of our handsets worked on batteries when we first opened the box. Therefore, the other handset always needs to be plugged into the wall, which is highly inconvenient. That said, the mobile handset burns through batteries way too fast (see #2 above).
Even for the price, I think this monitor is a poor value. I would not recommend it to anybody. I have done a lot of research, and I have decided to return this monitor to Amazon and purchase the Sony 900MHz BabyCall Nursery Monitor with 2 Receivers. It gets excellent reviews. In addition, it has 27 channels (as opposed to 2), built-in rechargeable batteries in both handsets, and 2 A/C adapters as standard equipment.
Buy Graco Ultra Clear II 49mhz Baby Monitor!