User's Manual

20-523 Owner’s Manual
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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 strong weather broadcast.
Displaying Weather Messages
The weather service precedes each weather alert with a digitally-encoded SAME signal, then a 1050 Hz
tone. You can set the scanner so, if you are monitoring a weather channel with a digitally-encoded SAME
signal when an alert is broadcast, the scanner will decode and display the SAME message, showing the type
of alert being broadcast such as Waning, Watch, Statement, or Test message.
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 again. DIG WX STBY disappears.
Notes:
• The scanner does not display the actual location referenced by SAME messages. It uses only the part of
message portion of the SAME signal.
• Your scanner can also receive weather alert tones (see “Priority” on Page XX).
WX alert and beep tone confirmation
1. Press WX for more than 2 seconds while LCD indicates DIG WX STBY.
2. LCD indicates the type of message and sounds alert or beep and it automatically change every 3
seconds.
3. Press any key except LIT to stop test sound mode.
Special Features
USING THE DELAY FUNCTION
Note: Delay is automatically set as the default for each channel when you turn on the scanner.
Many conversations might have a pause of several seconds between a query and a reply. To avoid missing a
reply, you can program a 2-second delay into any of your scanner’s channels. Then, when the scanner stops
on the channel, D appears and the scanner continues to monitor the channel for 2 seconds after the
transmission stops before it resumes scanning or searching.
To turn delay on or off, press FUNC then • /DELAY.
LOCKING OUT CHANNELS OR FREQUENCIES