First Alert WX-150 - Manual (Page 8)

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1. Speaker
2. LCD screen
3. LED Warning Indicator lights.
4. Alarm ON/OFF button
5. LISTEN to NOAA Weather Band
6. Snooze button
7. SAVE button
8. MENU button
9. PREVious button
10. Vol DOWN button
11. NEXT button
12. Vol UP button
13. 18” Telescopic antenna
14. Hang holes for wall m ounting
15. Charge/Alkaline battery switch
16. Battery compartment with
polarity (+ -) label
17. 12V DC input
18. External output
LOCATION Of CONTROLS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 8 9 10 11
12
13
14
15
16
+
+ + -
- - +
CHG
ALK
17
18
LCD Screen
Date and Day indicator
Snooze indicator
Alarm mode
Alarm 1
Alarm 2
Time of day
AM/PM
Volume setting
NOAA indicator
Low battery 25
Alert Description Table: The table below lists the alerts broadcast by NOAA. At the
factory, your radio has been programmed with some alerts Blocked (B) as noted below.
In addition, some NOAA alerts are Unblockable (UB) as noted below. To block additional
events, see the SIREN MODE instructions on page 22.
(B) Administrative message
Avalanche Watch
Avalanche Warning
(UB) Biological Hazard Warning
Boil Water Warning
Blizzard Warning
Child Abduction Emergency
(UB) Civil Danger Warning
(UB) Civil Emergency Message
Coastal Flood Watch
Coastal Flood Warning
(UB) Chemical Hazard Warning
(UB) Contaminated Water Warning
(UB) Contagious Disease Warning
Dam Watch
(UB) Dam Break Warning
(B) Practice/Demo
Dust Storm Warning
(UB) Emergency Action Notification
(UB) Emergency Action Termination
(UB) Earthquake Warning
(UB) Immediate Evacuation
Evacuation Watch
(UB) Food Contamination Warning
Flash Flood Watch
Flash Flood Statement
Flash Flood Warning Flood Watch
Flood Statement
Flood Warning
Fire Warning
Flash Freeze Warning
Freeze Warning
Hurricane Statement
(UB) Hazardous Mat. Warning
Hurricane Watch
(UB) Hurricane Warning
High Wind Watch
High Wind Warning
Iceberg Warning
(UB) Industrial Fire Warning
(UB) Local Area Emergency
(UB) Law Enforcement Warning
(UB) Land Slide Warning
(B) National Audible Test
(B) National Information Center
(B) Network Notification Message
(B) National Periodic Test
(B) National Silent Test
(UB) Nuclear Plant Warning
Power Outage Advisory
(UB) Radiological Haz. Warning
(B) Required Monthly Test
(B) Required Weekly Test Special Marine Warning
Special Weather Statement
(UB) Shelter In-Place Warning
Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Severe Weather Statement
Tornado Watch
911 Telephone Outage
(UB) Tornado Warning
Tropical Storm Watch
(UB) Tropical Storm Warning
(UB) Tsunami Watch
(UB) Tsunami Warning
(B) Transmitter Backup On
(B) Transmitter Carrier On
(B) Transmitter Carrier Off
(B) Transmitter Primary On
(UB) Volcano Warning
Wild Fire Watch
(UB) Wild Fire Warning
Winter Storm Watch
Winter Storm Warning
Unrecognized Watch
Unrecognized Advisory
Unrecognized Emergency
(UB) Unrecognized Warning
Unrecognized Message
10 Day Sentry ADR
AVA
AVW
BHW
BWW
BZW
CAE
CDW
CEM
CFA
CFW
CHW
CWW
DEW
DBA
DBW
DMO
DSW
EAN
EAT
EQW
EVI
EVA
FCW
FFA
FFS
FFW FLA
FLS
FLW
FRW
FSW
FZW
HLS
HMW
HUA
HUW
HWA
HWW
IBW
IFW
LAE
LEW
LSW
NAT
NIC
NMN
NPT
NST
NUW
POS
RHW
RMT
RWT
SMW
SPS
SPW
SVA
SVR
SVS
TOA
TOE
TOR
TRA
TRW
TSA
TSW
TXB
TXF
TXO
TXP
VOW
WFW
WFA
WSA
WSW
**A
**E
**S
**W
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