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Using Weather Alert (SAME)
Using Weather Alert (SAME)
Your BCD996T has been primarily designed as a multi-band, general services
scanner. While it incorporates a weather alert ability as one of its features, we
recommend that you not use the scanner as your sole means for receiving
emergency alerts. Your local electronics retailer can supply a selection of weather
radios that are dedicated to weather service monitoring including SAME alerts.
Such radios can be more dependable for this application.
Your scanner allows you to search for a local NOAA weather broadcast and set it
to alert when a SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) weather alert is
broadcast on a NOAA channel. You can also program SAME codes into the
scanner and set a weather channel as a priority channel.
Searching For a Weather Broadcast
[MENU] WX Operation F
Weather Scan F
F + [WX] Press and Hold
The scanner starts scanning the preprogrammed weather frequencies, and stops
on the first signal. Generally, there will be one channel of the ten that you will
receive best. If this station is weak, rotate the Scroll Control
to check for other
weather broadcasts in your area.
Note: NOAA broadcasts are continuous broadcasts. You only lose reception if you
move out of a coverage area. If the signal is lost, the scanner resumes searching
for a weather transmission.