West Marine VHF155, VHF460 manual Normal Mode with Weather Alert Watch

Monitoring Channel 25

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 channel for	Select on or off from the Normal/WX Alert
Watch	hazard alerts every few seconds.	menu.
	Checks emergency channel 16 for activity	Select dual watch from the Normal/Dual/
Dual Watch		TriWatch menu and press and hold 16/9-Tri
	every few seconds.
		for 2 seconds.
	Checks emergency channels 16 and 9 for	Select triple watch from the Normal/Dual/
Triple Watch		TriWatch menu and press and hold 16/9-Tri
	activity every few seconds.
		for 2 seconds.

## Note: 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.

Normal

xx To transmit, remove the radio from the charger, then press and hold Push to Talk. Release the button when you are finished talking.

xx For the best sound quality, hold the microphone about two inches from your mouth while you’re talking.

xx Press Channel Up to move up one channel at a time. Press and hold the button to scroll quickly up through the channels.

xx Press Channel Down to move down one channel at a time. Press and hold the button to scroll quickly down through the channels.

xx To change the transmit power, press and hold GPS/ENT H/M/L. The transmit power cycles through LOW (1W), MID (2.5W), and HI (6W), then back to LOW again. Press BOOST on the left side of the radio to boost the transmit power to 6W (Lithium Ion battery) or to 1.5W (NiMH batteries).

## If you are using NiMH batteries, 6W is not available.

Normal Mode with Weather Alert Watch

If you activate Weather Alert Watch while

operating in Normal mode, the radio checks the most recently used weather channel every seven seconds. If it detects a weather or other hazard alert,

it will switch to that weather channel. (If you are actively transmitting, the radio waits until you finish your transmission before checking the weather channel.)

Normal Mode with Triple Watch or Dual Watch

Every 7 seconds,

the radio checks wx the last-used

weather channel.

WX Alert

Watch on

If you activate Triple Watch while operating in Normal mode, the radio checks channels 16 and 9 every few seconds; with Dual Watch turned on, the radio only checks channel 16. The radio will not check channels 16 or 9 while you are actively transmitting; it waits until your transmission is finished and then checks the channels.

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