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Weather Features
While scanning, your radio will check your Weather
Priority channel periodically for the All Hazards
Warning Alert Tone (WAT). If the WAT is received,
your scanner tunes to the Weather Priority channel,
sounds an alert, and flashes the LED (RED=warnings,
YELLOW=watches, and BLUE=tests and
administrative messages) until the 1050 Hz WAT
begins, followed by the voice portion of the alert.
NOTE:
The included antenna is optimized for
general purpose scanning. Verify your signal
strength or connect an external antenna.
To use weather radio mode:
1.
Press
WX
. The scanner quickly locates an active
weather radio frequency.
2.
You can use the 4-direction keypad to search for
other weather radio transmitters.
3.
To activate Weather Priority Mode, locate the
strongest weather radio transmitter in your area
and press
PRI
.
SAME Standby
The National Weather Service precedes all weather
alerts with a digitally encoded Specific Area Message
Encoding (SAME) signal that designates specific alert
areas. To define your alert area, you can program
the SAME code for your area.
NOTE:
If no SAME location codes are saved, your
radio will alert on all messages received.
A list of SAME location codes can be found online at:
www.nws.noaa.gov
A list of event codes can be found online at:
www.weather.gov/os/eas_codes.shtml
SAME codes can include numbers and letters. The
standard text entry is used to enter both numerical
and extended SAME codes.
NOTE:
The text entry method for numbers requires
that you precede each number with
1
. For example,
to enter 4, press
1
and then
4
. To enter SAME code
048113, press
10
,
14
,
18
,
11
,
11
,
13
.
To create a SAME entry:
1.
Press
WX
.
2.
Press the
SAME
softkey.
3.
Scroll to the desired
SAME
code entry.
4.
Press
SEL
.
5.
Configure settings for the SAME entry. To
restore default setting, press the
Dflt
softkey.
6.
Press the
Save
softkey to store the data.
7.
Press the
Save
softkey again to save all SAME
changes and return to the Weather mode.
SAME Wildcards
Your scanner supports SAME wildcards for partial
matches of location codes. For example, the SAME
location code for Dallas, TX is 048113:
County Subdivision State Code (Texas)
County Code
0
48
113
You can program a wildcard for any SAME code that
matches 48 for the state of Texas:
*48***
SAME Code Menu Reference
Entry
– On or Off.
Code
– Enter the code. See Code entry.
Event
– Event code. Targets specific events. The
default alert code (***) is best for most general
purpose weather alert monitoring purposes.
Tag
– The display name for the SAME code.
Alarm
– None, Default, Siren 1-4.
Lockout
– Off or On. Use with caution.
