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LISTENING TO THE WEATHER BAND
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has allocated 11
channels for use by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion (NOAA). We have preprogrammed your scanner with the seven fre-
quencies most commonly used by NOAA (see “National Weather
Frequencies”).
To hear your local forecast and regional weather information, simply
press
WX/E
. Your scanner begins scanning through the weather band,
and
WX
appears on the display.
Your scanner should stop within a few seconds, then you hear the local
weather broadcast. If the broadcast is weak, you can press
WX/E
again
to scan through the rest of the weather band.
USING THE KEYLOCK
Once you program your scanner, you can protect it from accidental pro-
gram changes by turning on the keylock feature. When locked, the only
controls that operate are
SCAN
,
MANUAL
,
KEYLOCK
,
VOLUME/OFF
, and
SQUELCH
.
Note: The keylock does not prevent the scanner from scanning chan-
nels.
To turn on the keylock, press and hold
KEYLOCK
until flashes on the
display. To turn it off, press and hold
KEYLOCK
until disappears from
the display.
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