Radio Shack PRO-95 - Manual (Page 40)

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weather information on one or
more of these channels.
Listening to a Weather
Channel
To hear your local forecast and
regional 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 (Specific Area
Message Encoding) signal, then a
1050 Hz tone. You can set the
scanner to decode and display the
SAME message when an alert is
broadcast. Then if you are
monitoring a weather channel with
a digitally-encoded SAME signal
when an alert is broadcast, the
scanner will show the type of alert
being broadcast such as
Warning ,
Watch , Statement , or Test Message .
The scanner will also sound
alternating alert tones and display
Weather ALERT when the scanner
receives a 1050 Hz tone.
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To set the scanner to decode and
display SAME messages, press
FUNC then WX while you listen to
the weather channel. DIG WX STBY
and Cancel: F+WX appear.
To set the scanner out of the
SAME standby mode, press
FUNC
then WX . DIG WX STBY disappears.
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NOTE
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• The scanner does
not display the
actual area
affected by SAME
messages. It uses
only the message
portion of the
SAME signal
(
Warning , Watch ,
Statement
, or
Test Message
).
• Your scanner can
also receive
weather alert
tones (see
“Priority” on
Page 47). The
scanner sounds
an alert or beep
when it receives
the SAME code. If
you do not stop
the alert, it sounds
the alert (or beep)
for five minutes.
Then the alert
stops and the
scanner beeps
every ten
seconds. If the
scanner receives
a new message
after five minutes,
it sounds the alert
or beep. To stop
the sound and
ready the scanner
to receive a new
alert signal before
the five minute
time out, press
any key except
.