NOAA wr8000 User manual

PORTABLE NOAA
ALL HAZARD ALERT
WEATHER MONITOR
Model WR-8000
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Thank you for your purchase of the portable NOAA All
Hazard Alert Weather Monitor from Oregon Scientific.
Your Oregon Scientific model WR-8000 has a special alarm
tone feature that can sound an alert and give you immediate
information about a life-threatening situation. During an
emergency situation, National Weather Service forecasters
will stop routine weather radio programs and send out a
special tone that activates weather radios in the listening
area. When your Weather Monitor receives this special All
Hazards Alert tone it emits a visual and audible warning
signal. WR-8000 operates on all seven NOAA weather
broadcast bands and retrieves 24-hour messages from your
local weather broadcast channel, receiving signals at
frequencies from 162.400
MHz to 162.550MHz.
Your Weather Monitor is equipped with LCD alarm clock,
digital thermometer and automatic Freeze Warning Alert.
This water-resistant model also has an analog swing-arm
compass and a belt clip.
INITIAL SET- UP BATTERIES
Your Weather Monitor operates on three AA alkaline batteries (not
included To install the batteries slide the battery cover to the arrow
direction and remove it. Install the batteries in accordance with the
diagram and replace the battery cover.
NOTE: When removing old and installing fresh batteries always
slide the POWER OFF/ON switch to the OFF position.
This model is equipped with a low battery detection circuit, which
indicates when it’s time to replace the batteries. When the “battery’
icon appears on the display lower right side of the LCD, immediately
replace the batteries. The clock will work perfectly, but there may
not be enough power to allow your Weather Radio to functipn
properly.
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The WR8000 Weather Monitor has following controls and features:
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1 - LED Indicator
2 -- Back Light Activation Control Button
3 - Temperature Activation Control Button
4 - Freeze Warning Alert indicator
5 - MODE Selector Control Button
6 - Radio Frequency SEEK Control Button
7 - VOLU_ME Control Button
6 - MlNl 4 - Minutes Adjustment
Control Button
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- MUTE/STANDBY/SPEAKER
Control Switch
lo- ON/OFF Control Switch
11 - HW t - Hours Adjustment Control Button
12 - TIME/DATE Control Button
CLOCKI DATE/ ALARM Setting
IMPORTANT: When you started to set any modes, their icons (like,
Time, Date, etc.) will f/ash, and you have only 5 seconds to
continue
this process before the unit will return to its normal operation. Tc
return to the setting mode, simply press and hold the MODE (5,
control again and continue your settings.
Clock Setting
Press and hold the MODE (5) control until the word “Time” will flask
on the display.
Press HOUR/UP (11) control to set the hour and
MlN/ DOWN (8) tc
set the minutes.
IMPORTANT:. PM indicator displays if the clock is set for the
afternoon time. There is no indicator on the display if the clock is se
for the morning.
To select other functions, press the MODE (5) control again.
Settktg the Date
Press and hold the MODE (5) control until the word “Date” will flash
on the display.
Press HOUR/UP (11) control to set the desired month ant
MIN/DOWN (8) control to set the desired date.
NOTE: To change the display from TIME to the DATE mode, press
TIME/DATE (12) control several times until desired mode will be
selected.
Setting the Alarm
Press and hold the MODE (5) control until the word “Alarm” will flash
on the display.
Press HOUWUP (11) control to set the alarm hour and
MIN/Down
(8) control to set the alarm minutes.
Press the MODE (5) contrpl until both “Alarm “ and “ON” will flash
on the display.
Press HOUR/UP (11) control to enable the alarm function. The
“ON” indicator will be steady in this case.
Daily Alarm Disabling
When the daily alarm is ON or after -Back Llght Activation (2)
control is pressed, press the MIN/Down (8) control button once tc
disable the daily alarm.
NOTE: Daily alarm can be disabled every day, but it activates agair
every 24 hours at the pre-set time.
Complete Alarm Disabling
Press and hold the MODE (5) control until the word “ALARM” wil
flash on the display.
Press and hold the MODE (5) again until both “ALARM” and “ON”
will flash on the display
Press the
MIN/down (8) control to disable the alarm function
NOTE: After the performing these steps the wake-up alarm will no,
sound.
Snooze Feature Activation
To activate the snooze when alarm signal is on, press the Back
Light Activation (2) control and after 9 minutes of snooze, the
alarm signal will sound again.
To cease the alarm, press the Back Light Activation (2) control
again.
NOTE: If Back Light Activation (2) control or MllVdown (8) contra,
were not pressed, the alarm signal will be disabled automatical/J
after 9 minutes.
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Back Light Activation
Press and release the Back Light Activation (2) control to get the
soft green back light on the display.
Displaying the Temperature
Press the Temperature Activation (3) control to dispiay the current
temperature in Fahrenheit
NOTE: The built-in sensor updates the temperature every 60
seconds.
Freeze Warning Alert Activation
The Weather Monitor will alert you with the flashing SNOW (*) icon
and the beep tone that sounds every 60 seconds when temperature
drops to or below 34 degrees F.
To activate the
Freeze Warning Alert, press the Temperature
Activation (3) and then HOUR/UP (11) controls and hold them 5
seconds until SNOW (*) icon will appear on the display.
Press the
Temperature Activation (3) and then MIN/DOWN (8)
controls and hold them within 5 seconds until SNOW (*) icon will
disappear.
NOTE: The Weather Monitor temperature operating range is -15
to 115 degrees in Fahrenheit. If the outside temperature is lower or
higher than the operating range, the unit will only display “- - - -‘!
RECEIVING THE NOAA WEATHER
AND ALL HAZARD ALERT SiGNAL
IMPORTANT: The All Hazard Weather Monitor WILL NOT
FUNCTION unless it is properly tuned to the appropriate NOAA
channel in your area. Before that, please, follow the owner’s
manual directlons to set your local time/date and radio volume.
Slide the OFF/ON (10) control switch to the “ON” position. When
the monitor is not in use, we recommend that you keep this switch
in the “‘OFF” position to save the battery power.
Slide the MUTE/STANDBY/SPEAKER (9) control switch into the
“SPEAKER” position.
Press SEEK (8) control button to select the strongest signal channel
in your area. The display will show a channel (A through G) to
indicate the selected NOAA frequency.
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NOTE: When seeking a NOAA channels, it is possible that ydur
Portable Oregon Scientific All Hazard Weather Monitor may pick up
one or more stations in your local area.
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In this case please, choose the station (A through G) with the
strongest signal by pressing SEEK (6) button. If you are in the area
with a weak or no signal at all, please try to relocate your monitor
closer to the area with the better NOAA signal reception.
IMPORTANT: If you are traveling or camping with your Oregon
Scientific Portable All Hazards Weather Monitor more then 35
miles from your local area, it is important to re-seek the
channel for the best possible reception.
To set the volume.at the desired level, press VOL (7) control button
and select one number from the eight volume levels (0 -7).
Press
HOUFUUP(11) or MIN/ DOWN (8) to adjust the volume.
WARNING: The VOLUME control knob adjusts the Alert signal.
If you have your volume set on minimum, you may not hear the
emergency weather alert.
NOAA SIGNALS MONITORING
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There are three modes for the monitoring NOAA signals: MUTE
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STANDBY and SPEAKER.
For the unit normal operation in all three modes, the OFF/ON
(10:
control switch has to be in the “ON” position.
STANDBY MODE
When an alert is broadcast, the speaker will be activated so
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can hear the announcement and the red LED (1) warning ligh
will flash.
In STANDBY mode your monitor will sound .the Emergenq
Alert Signal when it is broadcast. After your Weather monitor
received an emergency alert, the warning signal on the speaker
will go off automatically after 1 hour and indicator light wil
stop flashing after 2-3 hours, if you did not disabled therr
manually.
MUTE MODE
If switch is on the MUTE mode, the ALERT icon and red LEC
(1)
indicator will be flashing, but speaker wiil remain silent, SC
you CAN NOT HEAR the emergency alert signal.
SPEAKER MODE
When your monitor is in
SPEAKER mode, you’ll heal
continuous National Weather Service broadcasts IN ADDlTlOh
TO ALL EMERGENCY ALERTS.
RECEPTION TtiOUBLESHOOTlNG
Please understand that there are some conditions in which YOL
won’t receive a NOAA Weather Radio broadcast on any of sever
weather channels (coded A through G on this monitor) used across
the
USA.
You are not in an area served by NOAA Weather Radio. There
are some areas that where there is no signal reception, although the
National Weather Service transmitters cover about 92% of the UI
territory. Present efforts are directed to make NOAA Weather Radic
a nationwide service.
The local geography (for example, a mountainous area) or YOUI
specific location (inside a heavily steel-reinforced office
building) inhibits the Weather Radio signal. Please, move to 2
clearer and/or closer location to the Weather Service transmitter.
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