Uniden BCD996T manual Using Weather Alert Same, Searching For a Weather Broadcast

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Using Weather Alert (SAME)

Your BCD996T has been primarily designed as a multi-band, general services scanner. While it incorporates a weather alert ability as one of its features, we recommend that you not use the scanner as your sole means for receiving emergency alerts. Your local electronics retailer can supply a selection of weather radios that are dedicated to weather service monitoring including SAME alerts. Such radios can be more dependable for this application.

Your scanner allows you to search for a local NOAA weather broadcast and set it to alert when a SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) weather alert is broadcast on a NOAA channel. You can also program SAME codes into the scanner and set a weather channel as a priority channel.

Searching For a Weather Broadcast

[MENU] WX Operation

Weather Scan

The scanner starts scanning the preprogrammed weather frequencies, and stops on the first signal. Generally, there will be one channel of the ten that you will receive best. If this station is weak, rotate the Scroll Control to check for other weather broadcasts in your area.

Note: NOAA broadcasts are continuous broadcasts. You only lose reception if you move out of a coverage area. If the signal is lost, the scanner resumes searching for a weather transmission.

Turning Weather Alert On/Off

In weather alert mode, your scanner functions as a severe weather warning radio. This is especially useful when your area is expecting severe weather conditions late at night. When you set the scanner to weather alert mode, it holds on the weather channel, but does not play the channel’s audio. If it detects a weather alert, it sounds a tone, displays information about the weather alert, and turns on the audio so you can hear the weather broadcast.

[MENU] WX Operation

Weather Alert

This setting determines which types of signals will trigger an alert. Choose your setting, then press .

Using Weather Alert (SAME)

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