County SUB-SECTION Code, Example of Coding System

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COUNTY SUB-SECTION CODE

The last digit on the extreme left is the county subsection. A county may be broken into nine subsections; each number between one to nine represents a speciﬁc county subsection.

Note: If the county subsection code is stated as 0, then that county is not sub sectioned. To receive all of the alerts for a given county, insert 0 into the county subsection ﬁeld.

Code	Area
1	Northwest
2	North
3	Northeast
4	West
5	Central
6	East
7	Southwest
8	South
9	Southeast

EXAMPLE OF CODING SYSTEM:

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ABOUT RADIO CHANNELS

Channel	Corresponding Radio Frequency
1	162.400 Mhz
2	162.425 Mhz
3	162.450 Mhz

4	162.475 Mhz
5	162.500 Mhz
6	162.525 Mhz
7	162.550 Mhz

FINDING LOCAL NWR CODES AND CHANNELS

SAME codes are available from the NWR. To contact the NWR by phone, call toll-free: 888-697-7263 and follow the voice menu to NWR channels and SAME codes. The NWR can also be contacted via the internet at: www.nes.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm. Click on the state for which infor- mation is desired.

Example of the ﬁrst ten county radio channels and SAME codes for Montana:

ST.	COUNTY	SAME#	NWR TRANSMITTER	FREQMHZ	CALL	WATTS
MT	Beaverhead	030001	Butte MT	162.550	WXL79	100
MT	BigHorn	030003	Billings MT	162.550	WXL27	400
MT	Blaine	030005	Havre MT	162.400	WXL53	300
MT	Broadwater	030007	Helena MT	162.400	WXK66	300
MT	Carbon	030009	Billings MT	162.550	WXL27	400
MT	Carter	030011	-NoNWRCoverage-

003

Code for northeast sub-section of Cochise County

Code of Arizona

MT	Cascade	030013	Great Falls MT	162.550	WXJ43	300
MT	Chouteau	030015	Havre MT	162.400	WXL53	300
MT	Chouteau	030015	Great Falls MT	162.550	WXJ43	300
MT	Custer	030017	Miles City MT	162.400	WXL54	300

In addition, many counties have been further subdivided into as many as 9 smaller sub-sections. The numbers of one (1) to nine (9) in the far left column

Code for Cochise County

Country Code for Cochise Country, Arizona

SAME Messages

The ESP2100 receives and displays SAME warning messages in three classiﬁcations depending upon severity of emergency: WARNING, WATCH, and STATEMENT.

of a SAME code identiﬁes speciﬁc sub-sections of a county. If the county has not been subdivided, the ﬁrst digit of the county code will be zero (0). (See “Description of SAME Codes”)