D USA, International and Canadian channelsThe transceiver is pre-programmed with 59 USA, 61 Inter-national and 65 Canadian channels. Choose the appropriatechannel groups for your operating area.q Push [CH/WX] to select a regular channel.• If a weather channel appears, push [CH/WX] again.w Hold down [U/I/C] (CH/WX) for 1 second to change thechannel group. Repeat to advance to the next group.• USA, International and Canadian channel groups can be se-quentially selected.e Push [Y] or [Z] to select a channel.• “DUP” appears for duplex channels.• “A” appears when a simplex channel is selected.D Weather channelsThe transceiver has 10 weather channels. These are usedfor monitoring broadcasts from NOAA (National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration).The transceiver can automatically detect a weather alerttone on the selected weather channel while receiving an-other channel, or during a scan. (p. 18)q Push [CH/WX] once or twice to select the Weather chan-nel group.• “WX” appears when a weather channel is selected.• “WX ALT” appears when the Weather Alert function is turnedON. (p. 18)w Push [Y] or [Z] to select a weather channel.94BASIC OPERATION12345678910111213141516Hold downU.S.A. channelsInternational channels Canadian channelsfor 1 secondPush once or twice.Weather Alert is OFF. Weather Alert is ON.