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12-253 Desktop Weatheradio: How to Enable and Disable the Alert Tones

In this tutorial, you will be shown how to turn on and off the alert tones. You can turn the alert tone on or off for certain weather alert types your weatheradio receives. For example, you can turn off the alert tone for a volcano warning if you do not live near a volcano.

Notes:

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

You can set the weatheradio so it turns itself on when it receives a specific warning. Disabling the alert tone for a warning, however, 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 Warning
Test Message	Unknown Statement	Volcano Warning
Volcano Watch	Winter Storm Warning	Winter Storm Watch

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Step 1: Select Program Mode



Set the ALERT ON/ALERT OFF/PROGRAM switch on the back of the weatheradio to PROGRAM. The weatheradio displays the preset weather broadcast channel and frequency number. Follow Steps 2-9 in How to Program the Weatheradio, select the ALL LOC FIPS mode, then proceed through the rest of this tutorial. Note: If you do not press a key for about 45 seconds, the weatheradio exits the programming mode without storing any changes. To continue, set ALERT ON/ALERT OFF/PROGRAM back to ALERT OFF, then start over.

Step 2: View the Alert Types



To view each alert type, repeatedly press OK/HR. The alert type and TONE ON (if the alert is turned on) or TONE OFF (if the alert is turned off) appears.

Step 3: Enable or Disable the Alert Tones



Press the SCROLL/MIN button, then the OK/HR button to turn the tone off or on. Press the OK/HR button again to go to the next type of alert. In this example, the tone is turned off because there are no Avalanches in this area. Repeat this process for each of the displayed entries.

Step 4: Exit Program Mode



To resume normal operation, set ALERT ON/ALERT OFF/PROGRAM to ALERT ON at the back of the weatheradio.