User's Manual
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Weather Features
The NOAA and your local weather reporting agency
broadcast local forecast and regional weather
information on one or more channels allocated for use by
weather reporting agencies.
Your scanner is an extremely sensitive high-quality
receiver on the weather frequencies. However, the
included antenna is optimized for general purpose
scanning. To receive weather alerts, please make sure
you are receiving a clear signal or switch to an external
antenna.
Press
to hear your local forecast and regional weather
information. WEAthEr appears for about two seconds, then
the scanner starts searching the weather bank.
Press PSE to stop searching the channels. SRCH
disappears and MAN appears. To change the channel
manually, press or .
Receiving All Weather Alerts
To program the scanner to search for weather alerts every
two seconds, set a weather channel as the priority channel.
See “Using the Priority Channel“ on page 19.
If the scanner detects a 1050 Hz weather alert tone on the
programmed channel, the scanner sounds the alert tone
and ALErt ashes. Press any key to turn o the alarm.
Receiving Alerts for Specic Areas
The National Weather Service precedes each weather
alert with a digitally encoded SAME (Specic Area
Message Encoding) signal, then a 1050 Hz tone. The
SAME signal includes a FIPS (Federal Information
Processing Standard) code and an event code.
A current list of FIPS codes is located at
www.NWS.NOAA.gov/NWR.