User Manual

PSR-410 O/Manual

SAME loca

tion code. We recommend that you leave the event code with “***” to receive all alerts.

Scroll to the Tag: field. We suggest that you enter a tag name here that corresponds with the SAME

location code that you have entered. Press > on the 5-way pushbutton pad to edit the tag name, and use

the standard text entry method to enter your tag. Using our Dallas County example, you would enter the

following:

31 D

21 A

53 L

21 A

74 S

. <space>

23 C

63 O

82 U

62 N

81 T

93 Y

Scroll to the Alarm: field. Note that you can specify different alarm sounds for this SAME entry. We

recommend that you use the default setting here for general purpose weather alerting.

Scroll to the Lockout: field. Note that Lockout is currently set to off. Lockout is a special purpose parameter

that can be used to lock out individual event or area codes. We recommend that you leave Lockout set to

off for general purpose weather alerting.

When you have finished editing your SAME entry, press the Save softkey to store the data, then press the

Save softkey to save all SAME changes and return to the Weather mode.

Activating SAME Standby Mode

After you have entered your desired SAME codes, you can activate the SAME Standby Mode to begin

standby operation. The radio will remain silent until a SAME transmission is received with a code that

matches one that you have stored. When a matching SAME message is received, your radio will sound a

siren alarm, then will play the audio message that follows the Warning Alert Tone (WAT).

To activate SAME standby mode, press the WX key, use the ^ or v keys to find the best weather radio

transmitter for your location, then press the stby softkey. The softkey will change to STBY to indicate that

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