Uniden MHS350 User Manual
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SAME Alert
SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) alert function as a
severe weather and emergency warning like Emergency/Weather
alert (see page 15). But SAME allows you to receive, interpret, and
display the information about the code so you can determine if the
emergency might affect your area. This can be set only on
weather channel.
Press the WX/ALERT button, then
press and hold the WX/ALERT button
for 2 seconds. A double confirmation
tone sounds, and you can see WX and
indicators.
When the unit receives a warning signal,
WX and
blinks. The warning level and
the channel number appears alternately.
Also you hear an alert tone correspond-
ing to the alert level (There are 4 levels;
A1-Warning, A2-Watch, A3-Statement
and A4-Test).
To turn Off SAME Alert, press and hold
the WX/ALERT button for two seconds.
FIPS Code
The 6-digit Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) code
was established by the National Weather Service (NWS) identifies
geographic areas in the United Sates. FIPS code allows you to
receive only the SAME alert occurring in a particular area. To
obtain the FIPS code for a particular area, contact the NWS tall
free at 1-888-NWR-SAME (1-888-697-7263). Or visit their website:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm. A list of event coded
are located on page 27.
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