West Marine 14078562 How It Works, Mode What it does Use it when you To turn it Want to On/off

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
		want to...	on/off
	Monitors a single marine	Monitor a channel or	(default
Normal	channel and lets you talk	talk to another radio.	mode)
	on that channel.
	Monitors all the channels	Check a small group	Press
Scan		of regularly-used	SCAN/
	you save into memory.	channels for traffic.	DUAL.
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 three 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.

##Private boats must monitor channel 16 whenever they are underway. Water-going vessels should have either Triple Watch or Dual Watch on at all times.

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