Uniden America Corporation UT919 Manual Do Utilizador

SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) alert function as a
severe weather and emergency warning like Emergency/Weather
alert (see page 15). But SAME allows you to receive, interpret, and
display the information about the code so you can determine if the
emergency might affect your area. This can be set only on weather
channel. 

Press and hold the 

WX/ALERT button for

2 seconds. A double confirmation tone
sounds, and WX and appears.

When the unit receives a warning signal,
WX and 

blinks. The warning level and

the channel number appears alternately.
Also you hear an alert tone  correspond-
ing to the alert level (There are 8 levels).

To turn Off SAME Alert, press and hold
the 

WX/ALERT button for two seconds. 

The 6-gigit Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) code
was established by the National Weather Service (NWS) identifies
geographic areas in the United Sates. FIPS code allows you to
receive only the SAME alert occurring in a particular area. To
obtain the FIPS code for a particular area, contact the NWS tall
free at 1-888-NWR-SAME (1-888-697-7263). Or visit their website:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm. A list of event coded
are located on page 28.

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