minutes before they can be relayed for broadcast by NOAA and as much as 5 or 10 minutes sooner than you
will hear them on local TV or radio! Those few minutes can be worth a lot when it comes to deciding if your
family needs to take cover.
Note
: If you tune to a Skywarn frequency when the Skywarn net is not active, you may hear nothing, or you may
hear amateur radio operators talking on a local repeater system.
Signal Stalker
Your scanner’ s Signal Stalker feature lets you set the scanner so it detects and then displays the frequency of
a nearby strong radio transmission. You can set the scanner so Signal Stalker works “in the background”
while you are scanning other frequencies; turn off normal scanning while Signal Stalker works;
or turn off Signal Stalker and use the scanner normally. You can set the scanner so it alerts you
when Signal Stalker finds a frequency. You can also set the frequency band where you want the scanner to look
for transmissions. You can also turn on the pager screening feature so the scanner ignores common pager
frequencies.
Note:
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Signal Stalker works well for locating the source of strong local transmissions,
such as mobile and handheld two way radios in areas with no other strong transmission
sources; however, if you are in an area with many transmission sources
(such as pager radio transmitters,multiuse radio towers, traffi c control devices, etc.),
Signal Stalker might not fi nd the transmission you are searching for, or it might find
A transmission other than the one you are searching for. You can screen unwanted
transmissions by pressing
L/O
to lock them out. See “Frequency Skip” for more information.
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Signal Stalker cannot detect satellite dishes or any transmitter with a frequency above
or below the frequency ranges listed under “Setting the Signal Stalker Options”.
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Signal Stalker works better with some types of
transmissions than others.
It might not correctly display
frequency information for transmitters using a highly
directive antenna (such as an amateur radio beam antenna), if there are many transmitters
operating at
the same time in the same area, or if the transmitter is a
broadcast television station.
Setting the signal stalker options
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Repeatedly
press or
to select
Sig-St.
, then press
E/PGM
. One of the following signal stalker
options appears:
S-S.bnd
: Lets you select the signal stalker band.
S-S.ALt
: Lets you select the signal stalker alert settings.
S-S.Lit
: Lets you select the signal stalker back light settings.
S-S.PS
: Lets you select the pager screen settings.
S-S.OnlY
: Lets you select the signal stalker mode settings.
S-S.Int
: Lets you select the signal stalker voice interrupt settings.
When this option is on, scanner checks signal stalker function during the voice conversation.
