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SCANNING THE
WEATHER BAND
The FCC (Federal Communications
Commission) has allocated 11 chan-
nels for use by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA).
Your scanner is preprogrammed with
the following seven frequencies avail-
able to NOAA.
To hear your local forecast and re-
gional weather information, simply
press
WX
.
WX
appears on the display.
Your scanner scans the weather band
and stops on an active broadcast. If a
broadcast is weak, press
WX
again to
continue to scan through the weather
band. To store the current weather
channel in a monitor memory, press
MONITOR
.
Weather Alert
Your scanner’s weather alert feature
can warn you when your local NOAA
weather station broadcasts a severe
weather emergency signal. (See
“Testing Alert Operation” on Page 10.)
1. Press
WX
to find the clearest local
weather broadcasting station.
2. Press
ALERT
.
ALERT
appears.
When NOAA broadcasts a severe
weather emergency signal, the scan-
ner sounds a loud alarm (regardless
of the volume control setting). The
alarm continues until the emergency
signal stops transmitting.
To manually turn off the siren and exit
the weather alert mode, press
ALERT
or
WX
.
Using the Weather Alert
Standby Mode
When you set the scanner to the
weather alert standby mode, the scan-
ner’s display and speaker turn off until
the scanner receives the severe
weather emergency signal. When the
scanner receives the signal, it sounds
a loud alarm. To set the scanner to the
weather alert standby mode, follow
these steps.
1. Press
WX
.
2. When the scanner stops on a
weather channel, press
ALERT
for
2 seconds. The scanner displays
on ALErt
for 10 seconds, then
the display turns off and your
scanner is in the weather alert
standby mode.
To exit the weather alert standby
mode, press
ALERT
or
WX
.
• 162.400 MHz
• 162.450 MHz
• 162.500 MHz
• 162.475 MHz
• 162.425 MHz
• 162.550 MHz
• 162.525 MHz
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