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Beyond the Basics
1. Press WX.
2. Select the weather channel you want to program as the
priority channel.
3. Press FUNC then PRI. The display fl ashes two times.
To turn on the priority feature, press PRI so pri changes PRI on
the display while scanning. If the scanner detects activity on
the priority channel, Priority Channel appears. Or if the scanner
detects a weather alert tone in Priority WX mode, Priority
Channel! appears for 3 seconds then changes to Weather ALERT
and the scanner sounds an alert tone.
Priority WX is only for receiving a weather alert.
When the scanner detects a 1050 Hz alert tone, priority
WX activates and you receive a weather alert.
If you program a weather frequency into the priority
channel and the scanner detects a weather alert tone on
that frequency, the scanner sounds the alert tone.
To turn off the priority feature, press PRI.
changing the receive mode
The scanner is preset to the most common AM or FM receive
mode for each frequency range. The preset mode is correct
in most cases. However, some amateur radio transmissions
and trunked systems do not operate in the preset mode. If
you try to listen to a transmission when the scanner is not set
to the correct receive mode, the transmission might sound
weak or distorted.
If you want to listen to trunking transmissions in closed
mode, you might have to change the receive mode.
To change the receive mode, repeatedly press MODE. The
receive mode changes as follows:
AM – accesses the AM mode
FM – accesses the FM mode
Notes
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