User's Manual

6. MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS

6.1 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 3.1.4). A transmission on a Weather channel is

preceded by a tone - if this is detected by the radio, it will sound

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

To enable Weather Watch, press Shift followed by the User key

(Wx Watch). The“WX” legend will be shown in the top left of

the display and the selected weather channel will be shown on

the bottom line of the display (Fig 6.1) -

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Fig 6.1 - Selecting Weather Watch mode

NOTE If a Weather channel has not been speciﬁed, the display will

show “No Wx Chan Selected” and Weather Watch will not be

enabled. Refer to section 3.1.4 to select a Weather channel.

NOTE If the Weather Watch function is not available (for example, if

no Weather channels are programmed into the radio), the dis-

play will show “Wx Not Enabled”.

To cancel Weather Watch, press Shift followed by the User key

(Wx Watch).

6.1.1 Weather Watch alert

If a Weather Alert tone is detected by the radio on the speciﬁed

Weather channel while Weather Watch is enabled, the radio

will sound a 10 second alarm and the display will show

“Weather Alert”.

Press Ok to cancel the alarm and switch to the Weather chan-

nel, or On/C to cancel the alarm and ignore the Weather Alert.

NOTE Because the Weather channels transmit a continuous carrier

signal, it is not possible for the RS87 to detect when the trans-

mission has ended.

Press On/C to return to the working channel once the trans-

mission has ended.