West Marine VHF580 manual Maintenance and Troubleshooting, Problem Things to Try

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You should arrange for periodic performance checks with your dealer.

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Due to its rugged design, your radio requires very little maintenance. However, it is a precision electronic instrument, so you should follow a few precautions:

xx If the antenna has been damaged, you should not transmit except in the case of an emergency. A defective antenna may cause damage to your radio.

xx You are responsible for continued FCC technical compliance of your radio. xx

Problem

Things to Try

 

Check the power connections.

The radio won’t power on.

Check the fuse.

Check the master battery switch and branch circuit

 

 

that connect to the radio.

 

Make sure you are not in weather or scan mode.

 

Make sure you are not trying to transmit on a receive-

 

only channel (see the channels and frequency tables

The radio won’t transmit.

beginning on page 41).

Make sure you are transmitting at the correct power

 

level for this channel (see the channels and frequency

 

tables beginning on page 41).

 

Make sure the duration of each transmission is less

 

than 5 minutes.

Noise comes out of the speaker

Adjust the squelch level; it is probably too low.

all the time

 

I can’t hear anything (no

Adjust the squelch level; it is probably too high.

volume) from the speaker.

 

I can transmit, but no one can

Check your UIC channel settings (see Setting the UIC

hear me.

channel mode (USA/CAN/INT) on page 10).

The display flashes, and I don’t

The display will flash if the radio is in a watch mode or

in scan mode. Try turning off scanning, Weather Alert

know why.

Watch, or Triple/Dual Watch (see page 11.)

 

I can’t read the display.

Adjust the contrast and backlight brightness level (see

page 20)

 

The display is too bright at

Adjust the backlight brightness level.

Turn off the radio; hold CALL-MENU button and turn it

night.

back on (see page 20)

 

I can’t see any words on the

Reset the radio back to the default brightness level:

turn off the radio; hold the CALL-MENU button and

display.

turn it back on.

 

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