Table of Contents

Making a Distress

 

Call

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Introduction

E-1

Features

E-1

Getting Started

E-4

What’s Included

E-4

Parts of the VHF160

E-5

Front view

E-5

Back view

E-5

Charger

E-7

Reading the Display

E-7

Display icons and....................what

E-8

 

they mean.

How It Works

E-9

Normal Mode Operation

E-10

Normal mode with

E-10

 

Weather Alert Watch...

Normal mode with Triple

E-11

 

Watch or Dual Watch..

Scan Mode Operation

E-11

Using the radio in Scan

E-12

 

mode

Scan mode with Weather

E-12

 

Alert Watch

Scan mode with Triple

E-13

 

Watch or Dual Watch..

Both Weather Alert and

 

 

Triple/Dual Watch in

E-14

 

Scan mode

Weather Mode

E-14

Using the radio in weather

E-15

 

mode

Weather mode with Weather Alert Watch... E-15

Weather mode with Triple Watch or Dual Watch.. E-15

Setting Up the Hardware

E-16

Attaching the Antenna

E-16

Installing the Battery

E-16

Using the Alkaline Battery

 

Tray

E-16

Mounting the Charger

E-18

Charging the Battery

E-18

Important notes on

E-19

charging the battery....

Attaching the Belt Clip

E-19

Using Your Radio

E-20

Turning It On

E-20

Setting It Up

E-20

Changing the volume

E-20

Setting the Squelch level.. E-20

Reading volume and

 

squelch level

E-21

on battery icon

Setting the UIC channel

 

mode (USA/CAN/INT). E-22

Using the WX Mode

E-22

Making a Transmission

E-22

Selecting a channel

E-22

Making a transmission

E-22

Boosting the

E-23

transmission power

Saving Channels to Memory.. E-24

Special Features

E-24

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