Radio Shack PRO-2051 - Manual (Page 40)

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Beyond the Basics
Although the alert beep (warning beep, watch beep, advisory
beep) sounds at short intervals for 5 minutes. After that, the
emergency beep will sound at intervals of 10 seconds.
programming a FIPS code
To specify a county, SAME uses a standard established by
the US Census bureau, called FIPS.
The format of a FIPS code is:
PSSCCC, where...
P = area subdivision (0=entire area)
SS = State code (00=all states)
CCC = County code (000=all counties)
For example, the FIPS code for Tarrant County, Texas is:
048439 (48=Texas; 439=Tarrant County).
Some counties are further subdivided, in which cases, the
fi rst digit will be 0 for all subdivisions in the county and each
subdivision will be labeled 1-9.
To program your scanner to alert you when the weather
service issues an alert, you must set the scanner to the alert
mode, and then leave the scanner monitoring the weather
service. You cannot scan frequencies and monitor for
weather alerts at the same time.
To limit weather alerts to a specifi c area, you must also
program in the FIPS code(s) for the area(s) you want to
receive alerts. The scanner can be set to either, alert for all
areas, or only the areas you have programmed.
programming FIPS
During weather scan, hold mode, press FUNC + PGM. The
scanner sends itself into FIPS programming mode. If the
scanner is set to alert for all FIPS, ALLFIPS appears on the
display. If the scanner is set to alert only the area you have