Weather
Activating SAME Standby Mode
After you have programmed FIPS codes for one or more SAME locations, you can activate SAME Standby Mode:
1.Press 
, then press or to select the strongest NOAA channel for your area.
2.Press SKIP to select Standby Mode. The speaker silences and SKIP = Normal appears at the bottom of the screen.
iSCAN monitors the selected weather channel for SAME alerts that match the locations you have programmed. If a matching alert is detected, iSCAN will sound an alarm, display the type of alert on the screen, and monitor the alert message.
nNote: Press SKIP again to return to Normal Weather Mode.
Skywarn
Many areas of the country have amateur radio repeaters that have been designated as “Skywarn” repeaters. During times of severe weather, these repeaters are used to relay reports of severe weather directly to meteorologists at a local National Weather Service forecast office. By monitoring Skywarn repeaters, you’ll hear about severe weather conditions before they are reported by local radio and television media.
To monitor Skywarn, store your local Skywarn repeater frequencies as objects in the Skywarn playlist:
1.Browse for Skywarn frequencies in the iSCAN Library and import them to the Skywarn playlist. (See “Programming iSCAN” on page 20.)
2.Enable the Skywarn playlist. (See “Enabling Playlists” on page 26.)
3.Quickly access the Skywarn playlist by pressing 
while iSCAN is in Normal Weather Mode.
nNotes:
•The Skywarn playlist works like any other playlist. It can be enabled and disabled for scanning along with the 20 regular playlists.
•When activated from Normal Weather Mode, all other playlists are temporarily disabled, and only objects mapped to the
Skywarn playlist will be monitored.
Working with iSCAN’s
Data
SD Card
Your iSCAN comes with a 2 GB SD card already formatted, installed,
and ready for use. To manage SD card contents, remove it from iSCAN and insert it into your computer’s SD card slot or external SD card reader. External SD card readers are available at your local RadioShack
store or RadioShack.com.
You can then use the iSCAN PC Application to:
•Access the card
•Update the Library
•Edit iSCAN’s configuration and stored objects
•Backup data stored on the card
•Optimize the card
•Reformat the card if necessary
nNotes:
•Reading from or writing to the SD card while it is installed in iSCAN is not supported. The SD card must be removed from iSCAN and connected to a computer using an SD card interface.
•You can purchase additional cards, format them for use with iSCAN, then use them to store different configurations or backups.
•Always use the iSCAN PC Application to format the SD card.
This will ensure that the card is properly formatted for best performance in iSCAN.
•The SD card comes formatted for the standard FAT file system with a cluster size of 32k. (Note that this is not the same as the “FAT32” file system.)
•If you must reformat the SD card, or if you use additional cards (2GB or smaller), format using the FAT file system with 32k clusters.
•If you use SD cards larger than 2GB, format using FAT32 with 32k clusters.
•Formatting the SD card for other file system types may cause iSCAN to malfunction.
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