Oregon Scientific Audio Players & Recorders - Answered Questions & Fixed Issues

Manuals Lib has the manual for the Oregon Scientific WR-8000 portable NOAA weather alert radio here: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1205635/Noaa-Wr8000.html . I also found the manual here: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518KWtMbsmL.pdf . I hope this helps. Cindy Wells

Mine was doing this too. I got my can of compressed air (Ultra Duster or similar) and opened the remote transmitter a tad and sprayed the temperature sensor with it. It has worked fine ever since.

Try resetting the clock, by pressing the small button on the side of the clock, or get new batteries.

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Mine too. They're very old at this point. I just started looking for an answer.

Check the channel mode that you are in. I play with the channel /memory buttons on mine and I finally get it to work. Sometimes it worksfor weeks sometimes just a day. Just glad I can get it to work - thought it was the remote unit but I was wrong.

Actually I just kept working with it, but I did put a new battery in and that may have helped. It is working fine now, thanks for your response.

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Mine did the same. Remove 4 phillips screws from the rear. Carefully open and expose the innards. Remove 6 smaller phillips screws from the black box exposing the battery bay. Pull out the tiny battery tension spring and clean the contacts. Refit in reverse of removal. Refit batteries- worked OK for mine.

From the Oregon Scientific site top ten questions: click the link below to download the manual for the model number of your radio: Manuals XF

The trick was to press the power button (the circle with a line through its top) on the very top of the device until neither NOAA by itself, nor NOAA together with that power button icon are showing. Then press Menu until one of the alarms shows up. Then use the up or down arrows until -:-- shows; that indicates the alarm is disabled. Then choose exit. The bell for that alarm should disappear. It kind of makes sense that you do not want to be dealing with NOAA in any way, since the clock is totally separate. It would have been nice if the manual had explained this.

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Hit MODE button. As soon as "PR" appears in lower right corner hit the " ^ " button. It wil scroll through PA, MO, CE and EA. Hit MODE again to scroll through hours, minutes, etc.

Press at the same time plus and minus buttons, thats all.

it can be opened carefully.but ususally it costs more to fix than getting another clock

Make sure the day is displayed instead of seconds, then homd down the + button for 5 seconds. Every 5 seconds should advance it on zone. Had same problem and just got done resetting mine this way.

1. Take the cover off the back of the remote sensor. 2. Set the chanel to ch.1. (I tried all three but only ch.1 worked for me). 3. Use a stick, needle, what ever you can (but you need two) and hold down the reset button on both the sensor and the clock at the same time.) If done right, it should only take a few seconds to start. The outside temp is delayed at first. Be patient.

I've had a similar problem with another model, an Oregon Scientific Model IWA-80055 Wireless Thermo Clock, in which when I replaced the batteries in the remote sensor, the clock would not read the temperature from the remote sensor.
I found it fairly consistent to solve this by taking a battery out of place in the clock and putting it back in.  Unfortunately this also messed up the clock's time and date.  This is also in the instructions catalogue for the device, check and see if yours gives a similar solution.

Look at the back of the clock there is usually a 12/24 switch.

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