Cannot receive weather channel information

Good morning, afternoon, evening or night; whatever time of day you are viewing this solution post. Thank you for choosing FixYa to help solve this concern. You just purchased a Midland WR-100B All-Hazards Weather Radio. You have all the information programmed correctly in it and you are still not receiving any alerts. First of all, log on to this website and check to make sure that the transmitter tower in your area is still working (this means your county does not have a DEGRADED remark in its row).

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm

When you get to the website, select your state and you will see a list of all the counties in your state. Find your county and locate the REMARKS column. If your county has a remark stating "OUT OF SERVICE" or "DEGRADED", it means the tower transmitting broadcasts for your state is not working due to technical problems or recent severe weather conditions. If your county doesn't have one of these remarks beside it, then the reason why you are not receiving any alerts on your radio is because the National Weather Service has special criteria that a storm has to meet in order for them to alert NOAA Weather Radio owners "In the middle of the night or while doing daily activities". To translate that for you, they don't want to disturb anyone by sending alerts for storms that are not "life threatening" or going to cause severe damage. Click on the links below to find out more information about when alerts are broadcast.

http://www.weather.gov/os/eas_codes.shtml

http://www.weather.gov/nwr/nwrwarn.htm

NWR always runs Required Weekly Testing every Wednesday starting from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. If you are able to, check the radio then. If you see the amber light shine, then you are receiving a test. http://www.weather.gov/nwr/nwrtest.htm is the place to find more information about NWR testing. I hope this will give you a better understanding of when the National Weather Service sends alerts to the viewing area. Thank you for choosing FixYa to as your one-stop solution spot for questions, concerns, problems and requests. Stay safe this Severe Weather Season and have a good morning, afternoon, evening or night; whatever time of day you are viewing this solution post.

Good morning, afternoon, evening or night; whatever time of day you are viewing this solution. Thank you for choosing FixYa to grant you request. You want the S.A.M.E code for Volusia County, Florida. Shown below will be the website that contains this information.

http://www.weather.gov/nwr/CntyCov/nwrFL.htm

Your county is located near the bottom of the list. The county name is listed twice, but the S.A.M.E code is the same. The reason why the name is listed twice is because your county receives broadcasts on two frequency channels. This is good because if one transmitter tower goes out, you can switch to the other channel that's in your listening area. I hope you get good use out of your radio during this Severe Weather Season and that it keeps you safe and up-to-date. Thank you for choosing FixYa as your one-stop solution spot for your problems and requests. Visit our site again and have a good morning, afternoon, evening or night; whatever time of day you are viewing this solution post.

To receive XM weather or audio, the GPSMAP 740s requires a GXM 40 Smart Antenna with XM subscription.

The GXM 40 Smart Antenna (010-00730-00) is used to receive weather and audio service from XM satellite radio. For details on XM services please visit our XM webpage.

Once a GXM 40 Smart Antenna has been connected to the GPSMAP 640, the device can display the subscription information for the antenna.

From the Home Page in Boating mode:

1. Select Configure
2. Select System
3. Select System Information
4. Choose Weather Subscription

From the Home Page in Driving mode:

1. Select Tools
2. Select XM Services
3. Select XM Radio
4. Set the channel selector to channel 0
5. Select Radio ID

The subscription information will now be displayed on the screen.

Good morning, afternoon, evening or night; whatever time of day you are viewing this. Thank you for choosing FixYa to answer your question. You want to know what the knob on the back is used for? I believe that's the weather band fine tuning knob. This is used for switching between weather radio frequency channels (e.g. 162.400 MHz or 162.550 MHz). Use this to switch to a weather channel that is in your listening area. I hope this answers your question and thank you for choosing FixYa as your one-stop solution spot for all of your problems. Come back and visit our site again soon. Have a good morning, afternoon, evening or night; whatever time of day you are viewing this.

The fact that you can receive the weather broadcasts indicates that the unit is functioning properly, so chances are that you're just not scanning the correct frequencies for your area. For a comprehensive database of active frequencies and systems in your area, and a lot of other useful scanning information, visit:
www.RadioReference.com

Bill B.
Listening in since the 60's

Check the fuse. Most electric bathroom heaters have a fuse that looks like this:

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unplug the power from the reciever for a few moments. plug it back in and let it load. once its finished turn to channel 201. Usually it the reciever is on an unavailable channel (channel with no programming) when it restarted it will go back to that unavailable channel hince the black screen and no sound.

Turn off power, hold down the 2, 9 & L/O buttons while turning the power back on.

Hi rgsusmcret79

Here is a full list of the codes, however, not all of them are used popularly. The list at the end are the more common ones.

• 10-1- Receiving Poorly
• 10-2- Receiving Well
• 10-3- Stop Transmitting
• 10-4- Ok, Message Received
• 10-5- Relay Message
• 10-6- Busy, Stand By
• 10-7- Out of Service, Leaving Air
• 10-8- In Service, subject to call
• 10-9- Repeat Message
• 10-10- Transmission Completed, Standing By
• 10-11- Talking too Rapidly
• 10-12- Visitors Present
• 10-13- Advise weather/road conditions
• 10-16- Make Pickup at...
• 10-17- Urgent Business
• 10-18- Anything for us?
• 10-19- Nothing for you, return to base
• 10-20- My Location is ......... or What's your Location?
• 10-21- Call by Telephone
• 10-22- Report in Person too ......
• 10-23- Stand by
• 10-24- Completed last assignment
• 10-25- Can you Contact .......
• 10-26- Disregard Last Information/Cancel Last Message/Ignore
• 10-27- I am moving to Channel ......
• 10-28- Identify your station
• 10-29- Time is up for contact
• 10-30- Does not conform to FCC Rules
• 10-32- I will give you a radio check
• 10-33- Emergency Traffic at this station
• 10-34- Trouble at this station, help needed
• 10-35- Confidential Information
• 10-36- Correct Time is .........
• 10-38- Ambulance needed at .........
• 10-39- Your message delivered
• 10-41- Please tune to channel ........
• 10-42- Traffic Accident at ..........
• 10-43- Traffic tieup at .........
• 10-44- I have a message for you (or .........)
• 10-45- All units within range please report
• 10-50- Break Channel
• 10-62- Unable to copy, use phone
• 10-62sl- unable to copy on AM, use Sideband - Lower (not an official code)
• 10-62su- unable to copy on AM, use Sideband - Upper (not an official code)
• 10-65- Awaiting your next message/assignment
• 10-67- All units comply
• 10-70- Fire at .......
• 10-73- Speed Trap at ............
• 10-75 -You are causing interference
• 10-77 -Negative Contact
• 10-84 -My telephone number is .........
• 10-85 -My address is ...........
• 10-91 -Talk closer to the Mike
• 10-92 -Your transmitter is out of adjustment
• 10-93 -Check my frequency on this channel
• 10-94 -Please give me a long count
• 10-95 -Transmit dead carrier for 5 sec.
• 10-99 -Mission completed, all units secure
• 10-100 - Need to go to Bathroom
• 10-200 - Police needed at ..........

. The common ones that are wellworth knowing are
10-1
10-4
10-7
10-8
10-9
10-10
10-20
10-100
Receiving Poorly
Received
Out of Service, Leaving Air (you're going off the air)
In Service, subject to call (you're back on the air)
Please repeat
Transmission Completed, Standing By (you'll be listening)
Location, 'What's your 10-20?'
Toilet, 'I'm going 10-100'
I am more than happy to answer any other questions you may have about it, just give me a hoy :) If you are still unsure, or have problems, then before you give a rating for this advice, please get back to me and we can try some more things.
Thanks for using FixYa, If you consider the advice I have given you as sound, a FixYa rating is a great reward for my efforts to help you. Cheers.

regards
robotek