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Preparation
• Testing the alert tone only ensures that
the Weatheradio’s alert tone can be
heard. It does not test the Weatheradio's
receiver or guarantee you will receive an
emergency alert.
• If the Weatheradio does not sound an
alert tone, you are out of range of the
broadcast or the backup battery is weak.
• An emergency alert broadcast might not
trigger your Weatheradio’s alert tone,
even if it receives voice transmissions
clearly or the alert tone sounds when you
manually test it. Also, if you are in a fringe
area, your Weatheradio might be trig-
gered by a broadcast when it is placed in
one area, but not be triggered if you
place it somewhere else (even close by).
ENABLING/DISABLING
ALERT TONES
You can turn the alert tone on or off for cer-
tain weather alert types your Weatheradio re-
ceives. For example, you can turn off the
alert tone for a volcano warning if you do not
live near a volcano.
Notes:
• The Weatheradio still detects and dis-
plays information about alerts even after
you disable the tone for those alerts.
• You can set the Weatheradio so it turns
itself on when it receives a specific
warning. Disabling the alert tone for a
warning, however, means that the
Weatheradio will not turn itself on when
it receives that warning.
You can set the Weatheradio so it does not
sound an alert tone during
only the following
types of alerts:
Follow these steps to enable or disable alert
tones.
1. Set
ALERT/PROGRAM
to
PROGRAM
.
Note: If you do not press a key for about
45 seconds during Steps 2–4, the
Weatheradio exits the programming
mode without storing any change. To
continue, set
ALERT/PROGRAM
back to
PROGRAM
, then start over at Step 1.
2. To view each alert type, repeatedly
press
OK/HR
. The alert type and
TONE
ON
(if the alert is turned on) or
TONE
OFF
(if the alert is turned off) appears.
3. To change a displayed entry, press
SCROLL/MIN
.
4. To resume normal operation, set
ALERT/
PROGRAM
to
ALERT
.
Avalanche Warning
Avalanche Watch
Blizzard Warning
Coastal Flood
Warning
Coastal Flood Watch
Flash Flood
Statement
Flash Flood Warning
Flash Flood Watch
Flood Statement
Flood Warning
Flood Watch
High Wind Warning
High Wind Watch
Hurricane Statement
Hurricane Watch
Practice/Demo
Required Monthly
Test
Severe Thunderstorm
Watch
Severe Weather
Statement
Special Marine
Warning
Special Weather
Statement
Test Message
Unknown Statement
Volcano Warning
Volcano Watch
Winter Storm Warning
Winter Storm Watch
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