Honeywell TN924W About the National Weather Radio System, Customizing Your Weather Radio

WEATHER RADIO

ABOUT THE NATIONAL WEATHER RADIO SYSTEM

The National Weather Service (NWS) is a government agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that operates the nationwide radio network known as NOAA Weather Radio (NWR). NWR is a nationwide radio stations network continuously broadcasting information about all types of hazardous events both environmental and technological. NWR works with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Emergency Alert System (EAS), and considered to be a single source of all weather and emergency information.

As a nationwide network, the NWR consists of more than 940 transmitters in all 50 US states, adjacent coastal waters, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and US Pacific Territories. This network also includes a Weatheradio Canada which is a part of Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC).

Routine broadcast consisting of local weather forecast, regional conditions and marine forecasts is repeated every few minutes. During emergencies, routine broadcasts are interrupted to report specific warnings.

When the NWR broadcasts specific warning, a digital code of Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is included as part of the message. The SAME code consists of specific information containing the geographical area affected, the expiration time of the message and the message itself.

Your Weather Radio has been designed to receive and decode warning, watch or non-emergency messages that are broadcast in digital SAME code by the National Weather service. A SAME broadcast will be heard as very brief tone burst resembling chirps. Once received, the message will be presented visually and by voice announcement. The SAME code contains the type of message, county(s) affected, and message expiration time. Your radio should provide reception for up to 40 miles distant from the NWR transmitter depending on terrain and man made structures, either of which can reduce that distance.

To receive SAME messages about events occurring only in your specific area you can use the FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) codes and program up to nine

(9)specific locations. The FIPS codes you have entered will be automatically saved into the radio memory.

NOTE: For customizing your Weather Radio use the Weather Radio Control Panel buttons located on the front of the main unit.

CUSTOMIZING YOUR WEATHER RADIO

Weather Radio allows selecting and programming of several different features, including the weather radio channel, country, language of the events (alerts), alerts, location, signal reminder and alert mode.

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CHANNEL SEARCH

There are two options available for searching of NWR channels – an auto and manual. The default channel search mode is auto.

If an auto search is selected, leave the Weather Radio in the default mode after the main unit has been powered. Then the Weather Radio will scan automatically through all 7 NOAA frequencies (channels) and lock on the strongest available channel.

When an auto search is selected and reception is successful, the Weather Radio will display the number of the received channel (for example: CHANNEL 7).

If no channel is detected at this time, the message NO CHANNEL AVAILABLE BACK TO CHANNEL X will be displayed.

If a manual search is selected, follow this programming procedure:

•Press MENU/SELECT button until message MANUAL is displayed

•Press MENU/SELECT once entering into the channel search programming mode – a channel number will be displayed

•Press ▲ or ▼ adjusting the desired channel number - 1 through 7

•Press WEATHER/SNOOZE button on the main unit to listen a NWR broadcast – the icon NOAA will be displayed next to the reception status icon

•Press ◄ to exit

NOTE: If your Weather Radio is receiving a NWR broadcast on more than one channel, the one with the best reception may not be the best option for your location. Contact NWS for information regarding broadcasting stations locations. To contact the NWS by telephone, dial 1-888-NWR-SAME (1-888-697-7263)

To obtain NWS radio channels and SAME codes on Internet: www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm

COUNTRY SELECTION

•Press MENU/SELECT button entering into the programming mode until SELECT CH message is displayed

•Press ▲button until the SET COUNTRY message is displayed

•Press MENU/SELECT button entering into the country programming mode

•Press ▲ or ▼ selecting US or Canada

•Press MENU/SELECT button to confirm – the unit will beep once confirming the country selection

•Press ◄ to exit

LANGUAGE SELECTION

•Press MENU/SELECT button entering into the programming mode until SELECT CH message is displayed

•Press ▲or ▼buttons until the SET LANGUAGE message is displayed

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