Or is it?
I was messing about with the radio using the 10 Weather alert channels & accidentaly hit “MENU” 3 times instead of once. (You’d normally hit it once then hit “UP” or “DOWN” to change weather radio channels.) Now I got a screen that isn’t mentioned in either the printed manual, nor the online one from Midland. It says “AL” & has 2 options, accesed by the “UP/DOWN” keys. The options are “on” or “of”. You hit “MENU” to end & return to weather radio operation.
Nothing more seems to happen until you exit the weather radio & go back to FRS/GMRS operation. Once you hold “MENU” to exit weather radio you get the cloud icon, but flashing, even in FRS/GMRS mode.
Did I just access weather alert mode, or is this something else Midland forgot to document?