User's Manual Part 1

RS81/RS82 VHF

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5 MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS

5.1 Selecting Weather Watch

The Weather Watch function enables the radio to monitor a sin-

gle Weather channel speciﬁed in the memory scan select func-

tion (see section 4.1.4). A transmission on a Weather channel is

preceded by a tone – if it is detected by the radio, it will trigger

an alert to allow the user to switch to the Weather channel.

To enable Weather Watch, press the S

HIFT key followed by the

SER (WX WATCH) key to display the Weather channel (Fig 5.1).

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Fig 5.1 - Selecting Weather Watch mode

If a weather channel has not been selected for inclusion in a

memory scan, the display will show “NO WX CHAN”, before

returning to the upper menu level. Likewise, if Weather Watch

is not enabled the display will show “NO WX MODE” for 2

seconds before returning to the upper menu level.

For instructions on how to select a Weather channel refer to

section 4.1.4.

To cancel Weather Watch, repeat pressing the S

HIFT key fol-

lowed by the U

SER (WX WATCH) key. The display will show

“CANCEL WX” for 2 seconds before returning to the upper

menu level.

5.1.1 Weather Watch alert

If the radio detects a weather alert tone on the speciﬁed Weather

channel, it will sound a 10-second alarm and the display will

show “WX ALERT”.

Press O

K to cancel the alarm and switch to the selected Weather

channel. To ignore the weather alert, press O

N/C or wait until

the alarm times out.

To return to the working channel press O

N/C. Note, that this

will not cancel the Weather Watch mode (cf. section 5.1 above).