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Notes: • You can not skip frequencies in the Weather
Service mode.
• If you start Service Searching for a service that has
all frequencies locked out, you hear a beep and the
scanner moves to the Hold mode.
Using Weather Search and Weather Alert
(SAME)
Your scanner allows you to either search for a local NOAA
weather broadcast, or be set to alert when a SAME weather
alert is broadcast on a NOAA channel.
Searching for a Weather Broadcast
To search for a weather broadcast in your area:
1:SERVICE OPTION → 1:WEATHER →
1:MONITOR
The scanner begins to search the frequencies used by the
National Weather Service for these broadcasts. When it finds
a broadcast, it stops on the channel until you select another
option or reception of the signal stops.
Note: NOAA broadcasts are continuous broadcasts. You will
only lose reception if you move out of a coverage area.
If the signal is lost, the scanner resumes searching for
a weather transmission.
Using Weather Alert (SAME)
Important: Your scanner has been primarily designed to be a
radio scanner. While it incorporates weather alert as one
feature, we strongly recommend that you not use the scanner
as your sole means for receiving emergency alerts. Your local
electronics retailer carries several weather radios specifically
designed for this function.
SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) was adopted late in
the last century to replace the wide-area alerts previously
used. Weather alerts today are preceded by a digital packet
that identifies not only the type of alert, but also the
geographic location for the alert. Thus, it is possible for a
weather broadcast that can be received across many counties
to be targeted to a single county.
To specify a county, SAME uses a standard established by
the US Census bureau, called FIPS. The format of a FIPS
code is:
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