User's Manual

Weather Features

While scanning, your radio will check your Weather

Priority channel periodically for the All Hazards

Warning Alert Tone (WAT). If the WAT is received,

your scanner tunes to the Weather Priority channel,

sounds an alert, and flashes the LED (RED=warnings,

YELLOW=watches, and BLUE=tests and

administrative messages) until the 1050 Hz WAT

begins, followed by the voice portion of the alert.

NOTE: The included antenna is optimized for

general purpose scanning. Verify your signal

strength or connect an external antenna.

To use weather radio mode:

1. Press WX. The scanner quickly locates an active

weather radio frequency.

2. You can use the 4-direction keypad to search for

other weather radio transmitters.

3. To activate Weather Priority Mode, locate the

strongest weather radio transmitter in your area

and press PRI.

SAME Standby

The National Weather Service precedes all weather

alerts with a digitally encoded Specific Area Message

Encoding (SAME) signal that designates specific alert

areas. To define your alert area, you can program

the SAME code for your area.

NOTE: If no SAME location codes are saved, your

radio will alert on all messages received.

A list of SAME location codes can be found online at:

www.nws.noaa.gov

A list of event codes can be found online at:

www.weather.gov/os/eas_codes.shtml

SAME codes can include numbers and letters. The

standard text entry is used to enter both numerical

and extended SAME codes.