Radio Shack PRO-2018 - Manual (Page 20)

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Your scanner's WX alert warns you of serious weather
conditions by sounding an alarm if a National Weather
Service broadcaster in your area broadcasts a weather
alert tone.
To set the scanner so it sounds an alarm when a weather
alert tone is broadcast, press
PRI/ALERT while you are
listening to the WX channel.
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appears.
If the scanner detects the weather alert, it sounds an alarm.
The scanner sounds the alert for five minutes after it
receives a weather alert signal. After five minutes the alert
stops and the scanner beeps every ten seconds. Press any
key to turn off the alarm. To cancel the weather alert
operation, press
PRI/ALERT again. ±
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Many agencies use a two-way radio system that has a
period of several seconds between a query and a reply. To
avoid missing a reply, you can program a 2-second delay
into any channel or frequency. When your scanner stops on
a channel or frequency with a programmed delay,
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appears and the scanner continues to monitor that channel
or frequency for 2 seconds after the transmission stops
before it resumes scanning, searching, or tuning.
You can program a 2-second delay in any of these ways:
• If the scanner is scanning and stops on an active
channel, quickly press DELAY/ ´ before it resumes
scanning.
• If the desired channel is not selected, manually select
the channel, then press DELAY/ ´ .
• If the scanner is searching or tuning, press DELAY/ ´ .
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appears and the scanner automatically adds a 2-
second delay to every transmission it stops on in that
band.
To turn off the 2-second delay in a channel or for all
frequencies, press
DELAY/ ´ while the scanner is monitoring
that channel or frequency.
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disappears.
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• WX alert is only for receiving a
weather alert.
• When the scanner detects a
1050 Hz alert tone, WX alert
activates and you hear a
weather alert.
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