12-254, 7 Channel Portable SAME Weatheradio: Enabling/Disabling the Alert Tone

In this tutorial you will be shown how to turn the tone on or off for some of the preinstalled weather alert types. For example, you can turn off the alert tone for a volcano warning if you do not live near a volcano. However, you cannot turn off the tone for all of the alerts. Alerts not in the list below (such as Tornado Watch & Warning) cannot be disabled.

Notes:

The weatheradio still detects and displays information about alerts even after you disable the tone for those alerts.

If you set the weatheradio so it turns itself on when it receives a specific warning, disabling the alert tone for that warning means that the weatheradio will not turn itself on when it receives that warning.

You can set the weatheradio so it does not sound an alert tone during only the following types of alerts:

Avalanche Warning	Avalanche Watch	Blizzard Warning
Coastal Flood Warning	Coastal Flood Watch	Flash Flood Statement
Flash Flood Warning	Flash Flood Watch	Flood Statement
Flood Warning	Flood Watch	High Wind Warning
High Wind Watch	Hurricane Statement	Hurricane Watch
Practice/Demo	Required Monthly Test	Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Severe Weather Statement	Special Marine Warning	Special Weather Statement
Test Message	Volcano Warning	Volcano Watch
Winter Storm Warning	Winter Storm Watch	Unknown Statement

For additional information on this product, see the links below:

Step 1: Entering Programming Mode



Set the PROGRAM/ALERT ON/ALERT OFF switch on the left side of the weatheradio to PROGRAM. The weatheradio displays the preset weather broadcast channel and frequency number.


Step 2: Selecting Alert Type



Go to Selecting the Weather Channel if you have not yet programmed your weatheradio. If you have already programmed your weatheradio, repeatedly press YES until the first alert type, AVALANCHE WARNING appears on the display. If AVALANCHE WARNING is already on the display, then go to Step 3.


Step 3: Enabling/Disabling Alert Tone



If you want to disable the alert tone for AVALANCHE WARNING, press NO. Press YES, if you want to enable the alert tone. The next weather alert type, AVALANCHE WATCH, flashes on the display. If you would like to enable/disable all the alert types, repeat this step for all 27 alert types.


Step 4: Reviewing Alert Tone Status



Press YES to review the alert tone status for all 27 alert types. This will show you the alert type and TONE ON or TONE OFF. To store all the settings without verification, press NO.


Step 5: Returning to Weather Channel Selection



The weatheradio returns to the weather channel selection.


Step 6: Exiting Programming Mode



Set PROGRAM/ALERT ON/ALERT OFF to ALERT ON or ALERT OFF. The weatheradio stores all valid entries and exits the programming mode. Then WEATHER and the corresponding alert status (ALRT OFF or ALRT ON) appears.