Weather Features; Receiving All Weather Alerts; Receiving Alerts For Specific Areas - Radio Shack 2000649 / PRO-649 Owner's Manual

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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SAME Standby Mode
In SAME Standby mode, your scanner monitors weather
channels for SAME alerts for up to seven areas you
specify by entering the FIPS codes.
To program your scanner for SAME Standby mode:
1. Press .
2. Press PGM to access the
FIPS code entry mode.
3. Use  or  to select the
desired FIPS code storage
location.
4. Use the number keys to
enter the FIPS code, then
press ENT to store the code.
5. Repeat steps 3-4 for all the
FIPS codes that you wish to
store.
6. Press to exit FIPS code entry mode. The scanner
displays F showing that FIPS codes are enabled.
7. To initiate SAME Standby mode Press PSE to pause
the search. MAN appears. Then Press PRI/ALERT.
The scanner displays F [1-7]
The scanner will monitor weather channels for alerts with
matching FIPS codes. To exit SAME Standby mode, press
PRI/ALERT again.
Press L/O during step 4 to lock-out FIPS entries;
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appears in the display. Press L/O again to enable FIPS
entries; disappears.
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• If you do not enter any FIPS codes, or if your FIPS codes
are locked out, when you enter SAME Standby mode
the scanner receives alerts and warning messages for
all receivable areas.
• The scanner sounds an alert when it receives the SAME
code. To stop the alert and ready the scanner to receive
a new alert signal, press any key.
• If you do not stop the alert within five minutes, the alert
stops and the scanner beeps every ten seconds. If the
scanner receives a new weather alert after five minutes,
it sounds the new alert.
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