User's Manual

To set to alert only the area you have programmed, press
or to move F1 to F15.
Then press
E/PGM. Then go to WX hold.
Skywarn
The Skywarn function lets you jump directly to the last channel in memory (Channel 1000)
from any mode by press and holding
. The scanner goes into scan hold mode
and starts receiving transmissions in the last channel. If no frequency is programmed in the last channel,
No Prog appears and the scanner sounds an error tone.
About Skywarn
Skywarn is an organized group of trained weather observers. A Skywarn group exists in virtually every US
county with a
significant population. During inclement weather, reports made by Skywarn observers include
information about:
• pea-sized and larger hail
• wind and wind gusts 40 MPH and greater
• heavy rainfall
• lightning (cloud-to-cloud and especially cloud-toground)
• wall clouds seen in severe thunderstorms (which spawn tornadoes)
• severe lowering of a wall cloud
• turbulence in a wall cloud
• funnel clouds
• tornadoes
• high water areas
• downed power lines
• other emergency conditions that affect life or property Listening to Skywarn broadcasts makes it easy to
quickly find out about and prepare for inclement weather conditions in your immediate area, even before your
local NOAA weather broadcast and local TV or radio station can announce them. Enter the local Skywarn
frequency for your area into Channel 1000 on your scanner. Then, listen to
Skywarn first when severe weather
threatens. Listen to NOAA: for weather alerts
Listen to Skywarn to hear trained observers in your vicinity call in
official reports to a net control station which relays those reports to NOAA and other emergency agencies.
Most importantly, you get Skywarn reports directly from trained observers - that means you get them several
minutes before they can be relayed for broadcast by NOAA and as much as 5 or 10 minutes sooner than you
will hear them on local TV or radio! Those few minutes can be worth a lot when it comes to deciding if your
family needs to take cover.
Note: If you tune to a Skywarn frequency when the Skywarn net is not active, you may hear nothing, or you may
hear amateur radio operators talking on a local repeater system.
Signal Stalker