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About Skywarn
Listen to Skywarn to hear trained observers in your vicinity call in official
reports to a net control station which relays those reports to NOAA and
other emergency agencies. A Skywarn group exists in virtually every US
County with a significant population. During inclement weather, reports
made by Skywarn observers include information about:
• Pea-sized and larger hail
• Wind and wind gusts of 40 MPH and greater
• Heavy rainfall
• Lightning (cloud-to-cloud and especially cloud-to-ground)
• Wall clouds seen in severe thunderstorms (which spawn tornadoes)
• Severe lowering of a wall cloud
• Turbulence in a wall cloud
• Funnel clouds
• Tornadoes
• High water areas
• Downed power lines
• Other emergency conditions that affect life or property
Note: If you tune to a Skywarn frequency when the Skywarn net is not
active, you may hear nothing, or you may hear amateur radio
operators talking on a local repeater system.
To listen to NOAA for weather alerts, warnings, watch box notices, and
weather-forecasts see “Receiving NWR-SAME and Weather Alert Signals” on p. 38.
Settings
Setting Delay
Sometimes a user might pause before replying to a transmission. To avoid
missing a reply on a specific channel, the scanner automatically programs a
2-second delay into any channel or frequency.
Depending on the operation mode, follow one of these steps to turn the
delay on or off.
• To turn off the 2-second delay, press •/DELAY while the scanner is
monitoring a channel, scanning, or searching. DLY disappears.
• To turn on the 2-second delay for a single channel, manually select the
channel and press •/DELAY. DLY appears.
• To turn on the 2-second delay for the search function, press •/
DELAY while the scanner is searching. DLY appears and the scanner
automatically adds a 2-second delay to every frequency it stops on in
that band.
The Signal Stalker I delay time is 10 seconds.
Turning Banks On or Off
You can turn each channel-storage bank on and off. When you turn off a
bank, the scanner does not scan any of the 50 channels in that bank.
1. In Scan Mode, Press FUNC + S/BANK.
2. Press T or S to select a set of banks (00-09, 10-19, or SS Log).
3. Press the number key (0 - 9) that corresponds to the bank you want to
turn on or off. A black box indicates the bank is turned on. An empty box
indicates the bank is turned off.
4. Press MAN/MENU or CL to exit from Menu Mode.
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