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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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