Noaa Weather Alert - Standard Horizon Quest GX1255S Owner's Manual

5.7 NOAA WEATHER ALERT

In the event of extreme weather disturbances, such as storms and hurri-
canes, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) sends
a weather alert accompanied by a 1050 Hz tone and subsequent weather
report on one of the NOAA weather channels. When the Weater Aleart fea-
ture is enabled (see section 7.4 WEATER ALERT), the transceiver is ca-
pable of receiving this alert if the following is performed:
1. Program NOAA weather channels into the transceiver's memory for scan-
ning. Follow the same procedure as for regular channels under Section
5.8.
2. Press the SCAN key once to start memory scanning or hold down the
SCAN key during memory scanning to start priority scanning.
3. The programmed NOAA weather channels will be scanned along with
the regular-programmed channels. However, scanning will not stop on a
normal weather broadcast unless a NOAA alert is received.
4. When an alert is received on a NOAA weather channel, scanning will
stop and the transceiver will emit a loud beep to alert the user of a NOAA
broadcast.
5. Press the WX key to stop the alert tone and receive the weather report.
If the WX key is not pressed the alert tone will be emitted for 5 minutes
and then the weather report will be received.
The Weather Aleart feature is also engaged while the transceiver is
received on the one of the NOAA weather channel.
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