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.
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