Danny, thanks it is not to much info.
The more info I have about the radio the better.
Maybe one day I can afford the software and cable to program the radio the
easy way.


Junior Lolley KG4ITD Liberty County E. C.

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Danny Dyer
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:21 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: t90a weather alert

Hi Junior and all, *first, yes the t90 does have wx alert, below is stuff 
from the manual and quickstart guide with full explanation.  Sorry I 
couldn't get this to you this morning, but while at work, had a few minutes 
to dig through some old emails to rescue this stuff.
Secondly, if you're trying to listen to something else in the meantime, it 
is a lil annoying, as it jumps over every five seconds to check for Alert 
tones, so you're best to either 1, just leave it on a blank channel with the

squelsh only sensitive enough to let your selected wx channel through,  and 
wait,
2, monitor something else and just know that every five seconds a blip in 
the signal will be heard, or 3, hold in the moni button and listen to what 
you want to hear, but know that you may miss the alert, although indeed it 
may still react inside the radio and you'd hear the radio's beep or bell or 
whatever the radio sounds, in addition to the NWS Tone./by the way that 
radio generated sound can be increased somewhere in the set menu although 
I'm not sure where.  HTH, Danny.

Hi Junior, this should help, if there's not too much info here, but i've 
tried to be thorrough although not too verbos, HTH, Danny.*Background, 
quoted from the quickstartguide from icanworkthisthing.com

Set Menu Options:
There are twenty-one options in the set menu, two of which can be expanded 
to add additional options to the menu. Probably the most straight forward 
way
to navigate the set menu is to keep both expanded options turned on if you 
will ever use any of the options provided in the expanded sets. Expanded set
1 will always be dial position 20, and expanded set 2 will be dial position 
21 if expanded set 1 is turned off - this makes it possible to always set 
the
expanded sets to a known state.
Here are the available options for the set menu (hold down the 8 button for 
one second to access set mode).
r tone (dial position 1)
c tone (dial position 2)
code (dial position 3)
off set (dial position 4)
resume (dial position 5)
pause (dial position 6)
prio (dial position 7)
beeplv (dial position 8)
beep (dial position 9)
light (dial position 10)
busy (dial position 11)
ap off (dial position 12)
p save (dial position 13)
moni (dial position 14)
speed (dial position 15)
autorp (dial position 16)
dtmf (dial position 17)
mic (dial position 18)
wx alt (dial position 19)


exp 1 (dial position 20)
exp 2 (dial position 21 if exp1 is turned off)

If expanded set mode 1 and expanded set mode 2 (exp1 and exp2 respectively) 
are turned on, here are the rest of the set menu options. Although it is 
possible
to turn off exp1 and leave exp2 turned on, there would be no way of knowing 
whether dial positions above 20 were selecting exp1 or exp2 options.
stop b (dial position 21)
stop l (dial position 22)
lightp (dial position 23)
color (dial position 24)
edge b (dial position 25)
ap on (dial position 26)
lock (dial position 27)
ptt lk (dial position 28)
cont (dial position 29)
opn.msg (dial position 30)
exp 2 (dial position 31)
dtcs p (dial position 32)
lk out (dial position 33)
tot (dial position 34)
active (dial position 35)
split (dial position 36)
narrow (dial position 37)
mc syn (dial position 38)
key spd (dial position 39)

This is as far as we go for now.
*Quoted Directly From The IC-T90A Manual On ICanWorkThisThing.com77
9 OTHER FUNCTIONS
_ Weather channel operation
(USA version only)
There are 10 weather channels for monitoring
weather channels from the NOAA
(National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration) broadcasts.
DWeather channel selection
qPush [CALL/TV LOCK] one or two times to select weather
channel mode.
o"WX" and the weather channel number appear.
w Rotate [DIAL] to select the desired weather channel.
qPush [VFO] or [MR] to return to the previous frequency.
DWeather alert function
NOAA broadcast stations transmit weather alert tones before
important weather announcements. When the weather alert
function is turned ON, the selected weather channel is monitored
every 5 sec. for the announcement. When the alert signal
is detected, the "AL.T" and the WX channel are displayed
alternately and sounds a beep tone until the transceiver is
operated. The previously selected (used) weather channel is
checked periodically during standby or while scanning.
q Select the desired weather channel.
w Turn the weather alert function ON in set mode.
. Push [8 SET] for 1 sec. to enter set mode.
. Rotate [DIAL] to select the [WX ALT] (weather alert
function), then push [8 SET].
. Rotate the [DIAL] to set ON.
. Push [VFO] to exit set mode.
e Set the desired stand-by condition.
o Select VFO, memory or call channel.
o Scan or priority watch operation can also be selected.
r When the alert is detected, a beep sounds and the following
indication will be displayed.
t Turn the weather alert function OFF in set mode.
[DIAL]
[CALL/TV LOCK]
Shows above indications alternately.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Junior Lolley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:31 AM
Subject: t90a weather alert


> Could someone please tell me how to set up the weather alert on the t90a.
> I appreciate your help.
>
>
> Junior Lolley KG4ITD Liberty County E. C.