4-8 Weather alerts (WX ALERT)

US model only.

Use WX ALERT to set your preferences for weather alert information.

The NOAA provides several weather forecast channels on USA and Canadian channel banks. If severe weather such as storms or hurricanes are forecast, the NOAA broadcasts a weather alert on 1050 Hz.

The NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio Service (NWR) works in conjunction with the Emergency Alert System (EAS) to issue weather alerts for specific geographic areas or specific weather conditions. It uses a digital encoding system known as SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) to broadcast these alerts.

Each transmitter in the NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio Service (NWR) network is identified with a unique 6-digit SAME code. Each transmitter operates on one of 7 frequencies.

Note: To activate a SAME alert, a SAME CODE (county ID) must be selected and turned ON (see section 4-8-2).

4-8-1 TONE ALERT

If TONE ALERT is ON and an alert tone of 1050 Hz is broadcast from the NOAA weather station, the weather alert is picked up automatically and the alarm sounds. Press any key to

cancel the alarm and to hear the weather alert message.

RADIO SETUP

 

►TONE ALERT

TONE ALERT

INT SPEAKE▲

SAME ALERT

►ON

WATCH MODE

 

SAME CODE

OFF

►WX ALERT

▼

 

 

COM PORT

 

 

1.Select RADIO SETUP then WX ALERT.

2.Select TONE ALERT.

3.Select ON to hear any weather alerts on 1050 Hz - the TONE ALERT symbol will be displayed on the LCD or, to ignore these weather alerts, select OFF.

4-8-2 SAME ALERT

Note: SAME ALERT works only after you have entered and selected a SAME code for your geographic area (see Section 4-8-5 and 4-8-6).

Note: SCAN mode will operate up to 50% more slowly when SAME ALERT is ON to allow time to decode the special warning code transmissions.

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