Listening To The Weather Band; Turning The Key Tone On Or Off - Radio Shack 200 Ch VHF/Air/UHF Home Scanner Owner's Manual

To turn off the priority feature, press
PRI
. disappears.
ORITY
Note: If you are scanning more than one
bank in which a priority channel has
been programmed, the scanner stops
on the lowest-numbered priority channel
first while scanning.
LISTENING TO THE
WEATHER BAND
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) uses 7 frequen-
cies to broadcast local forecasts and re-
gional weather information. We have
preprogrammed your scanner with these
frequencies.
Note: For a list of all 7 national weather
frequencies, see "National Weather Fre-
quencies" on Page 22.
To scan the preprogrammed weather
channels, press
the scanner searches the weather chan-
nels and stops on an active broadcast. If
a broadcast is weak, press
continue searching through the weather
channels. Press
search direction.
Weather Alert
Your scanner's weather alert feature can
warn you when your local weather sta-
tion broadcasts a severe weather emer-
gency signal. (See "Testing Alert Tone").
1. Press to find the clearest local
WX
weather broadcasting station.
. WX appears, and
WX
again to
WX
or to switch the
2. Press
PRI-
broadcast turns off.
When a severe weather emergency sig-
nal is broadcast, the scanner sounds a
loud alarm (regardless of the volume
control setting), and
flashes. The alarm continues until the
emergency signal stops transmitting.
To manually turn off the siren and exit
the weather alert mode, press
Testing Alert Tone
To hear the alert tone, make sure the
scanner is not set to sound an alert tone,
press
WX
tone sounds and the frequency and
TESt alternately appear.
Press
ALERT
TURNING THE KEY TONE
ON OR OFF
The scanner is preset to sound a tone
each time you press any of its keys.
Follow these steps to turn the scanner's
key tone on or off.
1. If the scanner is turned on, turn
VOLUME
clicks to turn it off.
2. Hold down
turn on the scanner.
key tone is off) or
key tone is on) appears for about 3
seconds.
. ALT appears and the
ALERT
H appears and
, then hold down
to exit the alert tone mode.
counterclockwise until it
S/S-LOCKOUT
no bEEP
On bEEP
ALT
.
ALERT
. The
ALERT
while you
(if the
(if the
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