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To activate Weather Priority Mode, follow the steps above listed above in Weather Radio Mode
to find the strongest weather radio transmitter for your area. Once the radio is tuned to the
strongest weather radio transmitter for your location, press the PRI key on the keypad. When in
Scan Mode, the radio will check the specified weather frequency periodically for the 1050 Hz
Warning Alert Tone (WAT). If WAT is found, the radio will sound an alarm and monitor the
weather alert audio.
SAME Standby Mode
SAME Standby Mode monitors the specified weather frequency silently, waiting to receive a
Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) alert that corresponds with a SAME location code that
you have previously entered. If there is a match between a sent SAME location code and one
that you have previously stored, the scanner will sound an alarm, display the alert type, and
monitor the nature of the alert.
To activate SAME Standby Mode, first you should provide at least one SAME location code for
your city, county or state. By default, SAME mode will alert on any SAME message received if
no SAME location codes are entered. A list of SAME location codes can be found online at this
web site:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm#sametable
In addition to the code for your location, you may wish to enter additional codes for surrounding
areas and any other areas of interest so that you can receive advance warning of adverse or
dangerous weather that may be headed in your direction.
Unlike other weather alert radios, your scanner features a powerful SAME wildcard feature
that allows you to set the radio to alarm on partial matches of the location code. For example,
the SAME location code for Dallas, TX is 048113, which can be broken down as follows:
0 represents a subdivision within a county, and is typically not used.
48 is the State code for Texas
113 is the County code for Dallas County
Entering the entire 048113 code will cause the radio to receive all SAME alerts that match the
code for Dallas County.
Suppose you wanted to receive any alert for any county in the entire state (provided that the
alert is sent by your local NWS transmitter). Using the wildcard feature you can enter a SAME
area code as follows:
*48***
This tells the radio to alert on any SAME message with a location code that matches 48 for the
state of Texas.
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