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Listening to the weather band – Radio Shack PRO-63 User Manual

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Follow these steps to manually select a channel.

1. Press

MANUAL

.

MAN

appears on the display.

2. Enter the channel number.

3. Press

MANUAL

.

4. To select another channel within the bank, repeatedly press

to select higher channels or

to select lower channels.

Or, if your scanner is scanning and stops at the desired channel,
press

MANUAL

once before the scanner continues to scan.

LISTENING TO THE WEATHER BAND

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has allocated
11 channels for use by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration (NOAA). NOAA broadcasts your local forecast and re-
gional weather information on one or more of these channels. We
have preprogrammed your scanner with 10 of the U.S. frequen-
cies available to NOAA.

To scan the preprogrammed weather channels, press

WX

.

To manually tune through the preprogrammed weather channels,
repeatedly press

WX

until

MAN

appears on the display. Then re-

peatedly press

to select higher channels or

to select lower

channels.

Note: For a list of all 11 national weather frequencies, see “Na-
tional Weather Frequencies” on Page 47.

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