Uniden 270 owner manual How It Works, Icon What it means Displays when Squelch mode is turned on

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How It Works

Your radio has three main operation modes: normal, scan, and weather.

Mode	What it does	Use it when you	To turn it on/
		want to...	off
Normal	Monitors a single marine	Monitor a channel or	(default mode)
	channel and lets you talk	talk to another radio.
	on that channel.
Scan	Monitors all the channels	Check a small group	Press SCAN/
	you save into memory.	of regularly-used	DUAL
		channels for traffic.
Weather	Monitors the selected	Hear the current or	Press WX
	NOAA weather channel.	forecasted weather.	ALERT.

In addition to the three operation modes, your radio provides four different watch modes which you can activate during any operation mode. In the watch modes, the radio briefly checks for activity on a specific channel, then returns to its previous operation.

Watch mode	What it does	To turn it on/off
Weather Alert	Checks the last-used weather	Press and hold WX
Watch	channel for hazard alerts	ALERT for 2 seconds.
	every 7 seconds.
Dual Watch	Checks channel 16 for activity	Press and hold SCAN/
	every 2 seconds.	DUAL for 2 seconds.
Triple Watch	Checks channels 16 and 9 for	Press and hold 16/9-Tri
	activity every 2 seconds.	for 2 seconds.

## Note: Private boats must monitor channel 16 whenever they are underway. Water-going vessels should have either Triple

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