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Portable Emergency Alert Radio
Don't leave home without your Emergency Portable Weather Radio
Twenty-four hours a day, the portable Emergency Portable Weather Radio receives and displays
National Weather Services weather bulletins, alerts, watches, and forecasts, U.S. Emergency All
Hazards bulletins, and local Emergency Alert System (EAS) bulletins and warnings.
Features
• Monitors U.S. Emergency All Hazards, and Emergency Alert
• System (EAS) weather bulletins, warnings, and forecasts
• Receives all National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
(NOAA) reports, which provide all available emergency
advisories on tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, floods,
evacuations, civil danger warnings, and more
• Flexible programming—select Specific Area Message Encoding
(SAME) state or county codes to receive broadcast from up to
six different areas
• Audio alarm sounds and visual alert signals shows when alerts
are issued
• Four levels of messages: Statement, Watch, Warning, and
• Test
• Non-volatile memory function saves settings in the event of
power loss
WR601N
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- Page 1 WR601N Portable Emergency Alert Radio Don’t leave home without your Emergency Portable Weather Radio Twenty-four hours a day, the portable Emergency Portable Weather Radio receives and displays National Weather Services weather bulletins, alerts, watches, and forecasts, U.S. Emergency All Hazards bulletins, and local Emergency Alert System (EAS) bulletins and warnings.
- Page 2 WR601N/WR113 Radio Setup Instructions Insert Batteries 1) Remove battery cover on the back of the radio by press down on the cover clip on the bottom. 2) The radio will activate automatically once 3 “AA” batteries are inserted. 3) The radio cannot be deactivated, to turn the LCD display ON or OFF, press and hold the NOAA button for 2 seconds.
- Page 3 WR601/WR113 Radio Setup Instructions Set Clock and Calendar 1) Once the unit powers on, you will need to set the time and date. 2) Press the UP or DOWN buttons to choose the setting. Press and hold UP or DOWN to scroll quickly through the setting.
- Page 4 WR601/WR113 Radio Setup Instructions SELECT NWS CHANNEL FREQUENCY To receive alerts, you must also set the radio channel to match the NWS channel frequency. 1) Press the CHANNEL button for 2 seconds. 2) Press the UP and DOWN buttons to select the channel. When scrolling through the different channels, you will hear either static or the 24-hour weather broadcast.
- Page 5 WR601/WR113 Radio Setup Instructions FIND YOUR SAME CODE AND NWR FREQUENCY...
- Page 6 WR601/WR113 Radio Setup Instructions PROGRAM YOUR SAME CODE The radio can be programmed to receive alerts from up to 6 specific different transmitters. If you do not program any SAME code, it will receive alerts from ALL transmitters on the selected channel. Program SAME Codes 1.
- Page 7 WR601/WR113 Radio Setup Instructions TEST YOUR SIGNAL RECEPTION The NWS office conducts a Required Weekly Test (RWT) of NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio every Wednesday between 11 AM and Noon (Central Time), when weather permits. The RWT consists of the RWT SAME code, the 1050 MHz tone, and a short message explaining the test and the counties that the particular transmitter covers.