Radio Shack PRO-95 owner manual Listening to a Weather Channel, Displaying Weather Messages

Operation

Ô NOTE Ô

•The scanner does not display the actual area affected by SAME messages. It uses only the message portion of the SAME signal

(Warning, Watch, Statement, or Test Message).

•Your scanner can also receive weather alert tones (see “Priority” on Page 47). The scanner sounds an alert or beep when it receives the SAME code. If you do not stop the alert, it sounds the alert (or beep) for five minutes. Then the alert stops and the scanner beeps every ten seconds. If the scanner receives a new message after five minutes, it sounds the alert or beep. To stop the sound and ready the scanner to receive a new alert signal before the five minute time out, press any key except

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weather information on one or more of these channels.

Listening to a Weather Channel

To hear your local forecast and regional weather information, press WX. Your scanner scans through the weather band then stops within a few seconds on the strongest weather broadcast.

Displaying Weather

Messages

The weather service precedes each weather alert with a digitally- encoded SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) signal, then a 1050 Hz tone. You can set the scanner to decode and display the SAME message when an alert is broadcast. Then if you are monitoring a weather channel with

adigitally-encoded SAME signal when an alert is broadcast, the

scanner will show the type of alert being broadcast such as Warning, Watch, Statement, or Test Message.

The scanner will also sound alternating alert tones and display Weather ALERT when the scanner receives a 1050 Hz tone. Ô

To set the scanner to decode and display SAME messages, press FUNC then WX while you listen to the weather channel. DIG WX STBY and Cancel: F+WX appear.

To set the scanner out of the SAME standby mode, press FUNC then WX. DIG WX STBY disappears.

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