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Weather Scanning
FIPS codes are formatted as follows:
Subdivisions
State Code
0-9
01-50
(0=entire area)
(00=all states)
Example: 048439
(0=All; 48=Texas; 439=Tarrant County)
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.
Your scanner also has a SAME wildcard feature,
which allows you to set the radio to alarm on
partial matches of the location code.
To enter SAME Location and Event Codes
1. Press WX to enter Weather mode.
2. Press the
softkey to add or edit SAME
SAME
entries.
3. Press
or
to scroll to the desired SAME
code entry.
4. Press SEL to edit the selected SAME entry.
5. With the
Entry:
turn the entry on.
Note: When a SAME location/event code storage
location is set for
Entry ON
process the SAME location and event code that
is stored there. When a storage location is set for
, that SAME location and event code
Entry OFF
will be ignored.
6. Scroll to
Code:
location code.
7. Press the number keys to enter a SAME code.
County Code
XXX
(000=all counties)
field selected, press
, the radio will
and press
to enter a SAME
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Note: The PRO-106 supports entry of Extended
SAME codes, which can include numbers and
letters. The text entry mode is used to enter both
numerical SAME codes and extended SAME
codes. To enter a numerical SAME code, simply
precede each number in the SAME code with
"1." For example, to enter SAME code 048113,
press 10 14 18 11 11 13.
8. Scroll to the
default of
for the specified SAME location code. We
recommend that you leave the event code
with *** to receive all alerts. A list of event
codes can be found at www.weather.gov.
9. Scroll to
10. Input a tag name that corresponds with the
SAME location code that you have entered.
See "Appendix C: Text Entry and QuickText"
Appendix C: Text Entry and QuickText" on
page 125 for information on entering text.
11. Scroll to
alarm sounds for this SAME entry. We
recommend that you use the default setting
here for general purpose weather alerting.
12. Scroll to
to
a special purpose parameter that can be used
to lock out individual event or area codes. We
recommend that you leave
for general purpose weather alerting.
off
13. When you have finished editing your SAME
entry, press the
data.
14. Press the
SAME changes and return to the Weather
mode.
Weather Scanning
field. Note the current
Event:
, which will allow all messages
***
and press
.
Tag:
. You can specify different
Alarm:
Lockout:
. Default is off. Lockout is
Lockout
softkey to store the
Save
softkey again to save all
Save
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