Miscellaneous Functions; Selecting Weather Watch; Weather Watch Alert - Simrad RS81 Instruction Manual

RS81/RS82 VHF

5 MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS

5.1 Selecting Weather Watch

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The Weather Watch function enables the radio to monitor a sin-
gle Weather channel specified in the memory scan select func-
tion (see section 4.1.4). A transmission on a Weather channel is
preceded by a tone – if it is detected by the radio, it will trigger
an alert to allow the user to switch to the Weather channel.
To enable Weather Watch, press the S
U (W W ) key to display the Weather channel (Fig 5.1).
SER X ATCH
WX
Fig 5.1 - Selecting Weather Watch mode
If a weather channel has not been selected for inclusion in a
memory scan, the display will show "NO WX CHAN", before
returning to the upper menu level. Likewise, if Weather Watch
is not enabled the display will show "NO WX MODE" for 2
seconds before returning to the upper menu level.
For instructions on how to select a Weather channel refer to
section 4.1.4.
To cancel Weather Watch, repeat pressing the S
lowed by the U
SER
"CANCEL WX" for 2 seconds before returning to the upper
menu level.

5.1.1 Weather Watch alert

If the radio detects a weather alert tone on the specified Weather
channel, it will sound a 10-second alarm and the display will
show "WX ALERT".
Press O to cancel the alarm and switch to the selected Weather
K
channel. To ignore the weather alert, press O
the alarm times out.
To return to the working channel press O
will not cancel the Weather Watch mode (cf. section 5.1 above).
HIFT
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(W W ) key. The display will show
X ATCH
key followed by the
key fol-
HIFT
/C or wait until
N
/C. Note, that this
N
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