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Weather Alert Feature
This scanner can detect both the weather alert tone and
can decode the digital SAME message that precedes
each alert. If you are monitoring a weather channel when
an alert is broadcast, the scanner sounds an alert and
displays the type of alert being broadcast.
The weather service precedes each weather alert with a
digitally-encoded SAME signal, then a 1050 Hz tone. The
PRO-92 responds to each signal. You can receive weath-
er alerts any of three ways.
•
Press
WX
to listen to the weather channel
.
Note:
The scanner only responds to the SAME sig-
nal in this mode.
•
Select a weather channel as the priority channel,
then turn on the priority feature
.
Note:
The scanner only responds to the 1050 Hz
tone in the mode.
•
Press
FUNC
then
WX
to select the WX STANDBY
mode
.
Notes:
• The scanner responds to either the SAME mode
or 1050 Hz tone in this mode.
• In the WX STANDBY mode, the scanner remains
muted until it receives an alert on the current
weather channel.
When it decodes SAME, it displays the specific type of
weather event (or
Tune
to
TV
or
Radio
) if it does not
recognize the event code. When it detects the 1050 Hz
tone, it displays
Weather
Alert?
In either case, the
scanner also sounds an alert tone.
To obtain SAME codes, visit the National Weather Ser-
vice web site at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm#sametable
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