Listening to the weather band – Radio Shack PRO-2040 User Manual

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LISTENING TO THE
WEATHER BAND

The FCC (Federal Communications
Commission) has allocated 11 chan-
nels for use by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA).

Your scanner is preprogrammed with
the following frequencies available to
NOAA.

162.400 MHz

162.500 MHz

162.425 MHz

162.525 MHz

162.450 MHz

162.550 MHz

162.475 MHz

To hear your local forecast and re-
gional weather information, simply
press

WX

.

WX

appears on the dis-

play.

Your scanner searches through the
weather band and stops on an active
broadcast. If a broadcast is weak,
press

WX

again to continue to search

through the weather band.

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