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Listening to the weather band – Radio Shack TRC-234 User Manual

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LISTENING TO THE WEATHER
BAND

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
has allocated 11 channels for use by the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA). NOAA broadcasts your local forecast and
regional weather information on one or more of these
channels in your area. We have preprogrammed
your CB with 10 of the U.S frequencies used by
NOAA. See “Channel Assignments.”

To select a weather broadcast, press

WEATHER

then

press

CHANNEL s

or t to choose between the 10 fre-

quencies.

appears on the display.

Press

WEATHER

again to return to normal CB opera-

tion.

Note: The

H/L

and

CH-9

buttons do not work when

WEATHER

is pressed.

WX

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