User manual OREGON SCIENTIFIC WRS101

[. . . ] COUNTY BUTTON Displays and switches between SAME county codes F. CHANNEL BUTTON Changes the NOAA channels G. RESET BUTTON Clears all settings and returns them to their original default values H. RETRACTILE ANTENNA Retractile antenna to enhance reception of NOAA signal I. [. . . ] When an alert message is received, the LED on the front of the WRS101 will flash red. Audio messages will not be heard until the radio is switched to NOAA-On mode 4. NOAA-Off: The radio is off and will not respond to alert messages. To select an activity level, press [NOAA]. With each press, the status level advances sequentially. To hear an alert message when the radio is in NOAA-Mute mode, press [NOAA] until the status becomes NOAA-On, and then adjust the volume level, if necessary. ALERTS AND MESSAGES When a NOAA message is detected, an alert will sound (except in Mute or Off modes), the front panel LED will flash. The alert type (warning, watch or statement) will be displayed. An audio broadcast will immediately follow the alert (except in Mute or Off modes). Once the audio broadcast is complete, the WRS101 will emit a short burst of static indicating completion of broadcast. If the WRS101 was in NOAA-Standby mode at the time of the alert, it will automatically return to that mode after completion of broadcast. In addition, many counties have been further subdivided into as many as 9 smaller sub-sections. The numbers of one (1) to nine (9) in the far left column of a SAME code identifies specific sub-sections of a county. If the county has not been subdivided, the first digit of the county code will be zero (0). Time Functions Clock Calendar : 12 or 24 hour format : Day-of-the-week display User-select month/day/year or day/month/year Format : Two (2) one-minute duration alarms : Eight (8) minutes alarm delay : +/- 0. 5 seconds / day ABOUT COUNTY CODES A county code has six digits in the format of P-SS-CCC. SS represents the Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) number assigned to each state or open waters in the country. Daily alarms Snooze Accuracy SAME MESSAGE CODES USED BY THE NWR When the NWR airs alert warnings, a digital code known as "Specific Area Message Encoded" (SAME) is included as part of the warning. This code includes information specific to an affected or endangered local geographical area. With SAME codes, the user can select the geographical area(s) of interest and program the WRS101 to receive only those specific alerts. When the WRS101 is programmed with SAME codes, the user will be alerted to warnings only for those preselected geographical areas. Alerts are initially shown on the WRS101 as a text display on the LCD screen; then an audio broadcast will follow. At completion of the audio broadcast, the WRS101 will emit a short burst of static to indicate end of message. In NOAA-Stand-by mode, the WRS101 will automatically turn to audio on so that the warning broadcast can be heard. The WRS101 will then return to NOAAStand-by mode after the audio broadcast has been completed. CCC represents the FIPS number assigned to each county. "000" means all areas under the state or open waters defined by SS. P represents the smaller regions defined by CCC. [. . . ] However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: 3. When the channel has been selected, press [MODE] to save selection and return to time display mode. PROGRAMMING SAME COUNTY CODES SAME county codes are required to receive weather and environmental alerts for a selected specific county, and need to be entered into the WRS101. Up to seven selected SAME codes can be entered. [. . . ]