First Alert user manual Introduction, WX-17Manual 3/7/02 11 25 AM Page

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Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the WX-17 First Alert® portable Emergency Alert Radio with AM/FM. This product is designed to exacting standards, which provide reliability, long life and outstanding performance.

This unit is designed to receive National Weather Service (NWS) broadcasts, by NOAA Weather Radio which provides information about weather conditions, forecasts and hazard information 24 hours a day. Your First Alert® Emergency Alert Radio will also alert you to emergency warnings or watches issued by NOAA with its built-in siren.

The Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Aerospace Administration (NOAA) provides NOAA Weather Radio as a public service. NOAA has more than 550 stations in the 50 states and near adjacent coastal waters, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the U.S. Pacific Territories.

The WX-17 Emergency Alert Radio receives all of the seven NOAA channels. (NOTE: You have to select the correct weather channel in order to receive warnings for the state/county in which you

are located). The unit will sound an audible alert tone when an alert tone is received.

Working with other Federal agencies and the FCC’s new Emergency Alert System (EAS), NOAA is the single source for weather and emergency information available to the public.

For up-to-date information on NOAA and weather frequencies used in your area, check the NOAA National Weather Service website at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr.

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