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Using Weather Alert (SAME)
Using Weather Alert
(SAME)
Your scanner has been primarily designed to be a radio
scanner. While it incorporates weather alert as one of its
features, we strongly recommend that you not use the
scanner as your sole means for receiving emergency
alerts. Your local electronics retailer carries several
weather radios specifically designed for this function.
Your scanner allows you to search for a local NOAA
weather broadcast and set it to alert when a SAME
weather alert is broadcast on a NOAA channel. You can
also program SAME codes into the scanner and set a
weather channel as a priority channel.
In the following sections, you can also access the weather
menu from Hold mode by holding
then pressing
Wx
.
Searching For a Weather Broadcast
WX OPERATION
E
Weather Scan
E
The scanner starts scanning the preprogrammed weather
frequencies, and stops on the first signal. If this station is
weak, rotate the scroll control to check for other weather
broadcasts in your area.
Note
: NOAA broadcasts are continuous broadcasts.
You will only lose reception if you move out of a coverage
area. If the signal is lost, the scanner resumes searching
for a weather transmission.
Turning Weather Alert On/Off
In weather alert mode, your scanner functions as a
severe weather warning radio. This is especially useful
when your area is expecting severe weather conditions
late at night. When you set the scanner to weather alert
mode, it holds on the weather channel, but does not play
the channel’s audio. If it detects a weather alert, it sounds
a tone, displays information about the weather alert, and
turns on the audio so you can hear the weather broadcast.
WX Operation
E
Weather Alert
E
Func
Menu
Menu
Using Weather Alert (SAME)
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