Weather Features; Receiving All Weather Alerts; Receiving Alerts For Specific Areas - Whistler WS1010 Owner's Manual

WEATHER FEATURES

Weather Features
The NOAA and your local weather reporting agency
broadcast local forecast and regional weather
information on one or more channels allocated for
use by weather reporting agencies.
Your scanner is an extremely sensitive high-quality
receiver on the weather frequencies. However, the
included antenna is optimized for general purpose
scanning. To receive weather alerts, please make
sure you are receiving a clear signal or switch to an
external antenna.
Press to hear your local forecast and regional
weather information. WEAthEr appears for about
two seconds, then the scanner starts searching the
weather bank.
Press PSE to stop searching the channels. SRCH
disappears and MAN appears. To change the channel
manually, press  or .

Receiving All Weather Alerts

To program the scanner to search for weather alerts
every two seconds, set a weather channel as the
priority channel. See "Using the Priority Channel"
on page 19.
If the scanner detects a 1050 Hz weather alert tone
on the programmed channel, the scanner sounds the
alert tone and ALErt flashes. Press any key to turn off
the alarm.

Receiving Alerts for Specific Areas

The National Weather Service precedes each weather
alert with a digitally encoded SAME (Specific Area
Message Encoding) signal, then a 1050 Hz tone. The
SAME signal includes a FIPS (Federal Information
Processing Standard) code and an event code.
A current list of FIPS codes is located at
www.NWS.NOAA.gov/NWR.
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