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NOAA and your local weather report-
ing authority broadcast your local fore-
cast and regional weather information
on one or more of these channels.
Listening to a Weather
Channel
To hear your local forecast and re-
gional weather information, press
WX
.
Your scanner scans through the
weather band then stops within a few
seconds on the strongest 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 mes-
sage, showing the type of alert being
broadcast (or
Unknown
Message
if
it does not recognize the event code).
To set the scanner to decode and dis-
play SAME messages, press
FUNC
then
WX
while you listen to the weath-
er 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
message portion of the SAME sig-
nal.
• Your scanner can also receive
weather alert tones (see “Priority”
on Page 31).
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