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Weather Wx Operation

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BANK 2 SCAN ↑ PRI BNK: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 • DND: The scanner inhibits priority checking when receiving. During Scan, press the PRI key to change modes in the following order: DND → ON → Plus → OFF →DND → Set Interval Set how often the scanner checks priority channels. 1. From MENU/Priority Scan, select Set Interval and press E Yes. 2. Enter the number of seconds (1 - 10) and press E Yes to save. MaxCHs/PRI-SCN Sets the maximum number of priority channels that can be scanned during a single priority scan interrupt. If there are more priority channels than the value set here, the channels are divided into groups and each group is scanned in turn. For example, if the maximum of channels to scan is 20 and there are 100 priority channels, the scanner checks those 100 channels in groups of 20 and takes 5 intervals to complete the priority scan. 1. From MENU/Priority Scan, select MaxCHs/PRI-Scan and press E Yes. 2. Enter the number of channels to be checked (1 - 100) and press E Yes to save and exit. WEATHER (WX) OPERATION Your scanner allows you to search for a local NOAA weather broadcast and set it to alert when a SAME weather alert is broadcast on a NOAA weather channel. You can also program FIPS codes into the scanner and use weather alert priority to check the weather channel every 5 seconds for a weather alert signal. 50

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BANK 2
SCAN
↑
BNK: 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
PRI
•
DND: The scanner inhibits priority checking when receiving.
During Scan, press the
PRI
key to change modes in the following order:
DND → ON → Plus → OFF →DND →
Set Interval
Set how often the scanner checks priority channels.
1. From
MENU
/
Priority Scan
, select
Set Interval
and press
E Yes
.
2. Enter the number of seconds (1 - 10) and press
E Yes
to save.
MaxCHs/PRI-SCN
Sets the maximum number of priority channels that can be scanned during a
single priority scan interrupt. If there are more priority channels than the value
set here, the channels are divided into groups and each group is scanned in
turn. For example, if the maximum of channels to scan is 20 and there are 100
priority channels, the scanner checks those 100 channels in groups of 20 and
takes 5 intervals to complete the priority scan.
1. From
MENU
/
Priority Scan
, select
MaxCHs/PRI-Scan
and press
E Yes
.
2. Enter the number of channels to be checked
(1 - 100) and press
E Yes
to
save and exit.
WEATHER (WX) OPERATION
Your scanner allows you to search for a local NOAA weather broadcast and
set it to alert when a SAME weather alert is broadcast on a NOAA weather
channel. You can also program FIPS codes into the scanner and use weather
alert priority to check the weather channel every 5 seconds for a weather alert
signal.