Listening to the weather band – Radio Shack PRO-71 User Manual

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LISTENING TO THE WEATHER BAND

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has allocated 11
channels for use by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion (NOAA). We have preprogrammed your scanner with the seven
frequencies most commonly used by NOAA.

To hear your local forecast and regional weather information, simply
press

WX

(

E

). Your scanner begins scanning through the weather

band, and

WX

appears.

If there is a weather broadcast in your area, your scanner stops within
a few seconds and you hear the local weather broadcast. If the broad-
cast is weak, you can press

WX

again to scan through the rest of the

weather band.

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