Fig. 14a: Triple Watch Display
Fig. 14b: Triple Watch Display
14. Triple Watch
Triple Watch is a handy feature that lets you monitor a channel of interest to you, yet maintain a watch on Channels 9 and
16.Let’s say you need to monitor Channel 15, the Environmental Channel, but don’t want to miss important safety or distress messages on Channel 16. Simply select Channel 15 with the ▲ or ▼ keys, then press and hold the 16/9/TRI key.
The TRI icon will be displayed. Every two seconds, the radio will quickly moni- tor Channels 16 and 9 before returning to your selected channel. The Radio Status Display will show the three channels being monitored. (Fig. 14a)
•If there is traffic on Channel 9, the radio will monitor Channel 9 until the signal stops while checking Channel 16 every two seconds. (Fig. 14a)
•If there is traffic on Channel 16, the radio will monitor Channel 16 until the signal stops. (Fig. 14b)
•Pressing the ▲ or ▼ keys in Triple Watch will increment or decrement the monitored channel.
15. Scanning Channels
Scanning allows you to monitor the traffic or conversations on several channels in quick succession. This can be helpful if you’re trying to listing to fishing traffic on several channels, or need to monitor Race Committee traffic on Channels 68, 69, and 71.
As the radio detects traffic on any channel in its scan list, it will pause until three seconds after the last transmission, then continue scanning.
Before you can scan channels, you need to store two or more channels into the radio’s scan memory.
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