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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: t90a weather alert


> write me and give me your off list address, i'll send you a copy of each 
> if
> you want me to, dd.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Junior Lolley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: t90a weather alert
>
>
>> Danny, I had it until lightning took out my other computer.
>> Then I lost everything.
>>
>>
>> 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 7:02 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: t90a weather alert
>>
>> do you have the manual and quickguide?
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Junior Lolley" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: t90a weather alert
>>
>>
>>> 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.