User's Manual

20-405 User’s Guide DRAFT
1. To test the WX alert, press and hold ENT for more than 2 seconds while F [1-7]CH StAndby
appears.
The display indicates the type of message, and the scanner sounds an alert or series of beeps. The
beeps automatically change every 3 seconds.
2. Press any key to stop test sound mode.
Skywarn
Many areas of the country have amateur radio repeaters that have been designated as “Skywarn”
repeaters. During times of severe weather, these repeaters are used to relay reports of severe
weather directly to meteorologists at a local National Weather Service forecast office. Using the
Skywarn feature in your scanner, you can easily jump to your local Skywarn frequency and monitor
these reports, in many cases hearing about severe weather in your area instantly as it occurs.
1. Before using this feature, you must program the Skywarn frequency into channel 200 (see
“Programming Known Frequencies into Channels” on page XX).
2. To activate Skywarn, press and hold WX/Skywarn for about two seconds.
3. The scanner jumps to channel 200 and displays SKYWARN.
If no frequency is programmed in the skywarn channel, No ProG appears.
Note: Refer to www.radioreference.com
to find the skywarn frequencies in your area.
Settings
Setting Delay
To avoid missing a reply in conversations, a two-second delay is automatically set for each channel.
The scanner stops for two seconds after a transmission ends before it resumes scanning or
searching. DLY appears in the display when the delay function is active.
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