West Marine VHF200 manual Battery Level Display, Medium Power Display

Fig. 9b: Medium Power Display

Fig. 9c: Low Power Display

Blinking

Fig. 10: Low Battery Warning Display

Status Display will show XMIT HI for three seconds. (Fig. 9a)

•When Medium Power is selected, the Radio Status Display will show XMIT MED for three seconds and the M indicator will show. (Fig. 9b)

•When Low Power is selected, the Radio Status Display will show XMIT LOW for three seconds and the L indicator will show. (Fig. 9c)

Certain channels are limited by law to 1 watt transmit power: USA Mode Channel 13, 17, 67, 77; INT Mode Channel 15, 17; CAN Mode Channel 13, 15, 17, 20, 66,

77.Therefore, the radio will automatically select 1 watt power when operating on these channels, and efforts to change the transmit power will result in the error tone.

•You cannot change the transmit power setting on channels which are receive-only channels: all weather channels; USA Mode Channel 15, 70; INT Mode Channel 70; CAN Mode Channel 70.

•Pressing the H/L key while scanning or while in the Weather Mode will result in the error tone and transmit power will not change.

10. Battery Level Display

The battery level is checked periodically and is shown using the Battery Level Indicator (1–3 bars). More bars indicate more battery capacity is left.

•When the battery capacity is very low, the low battery warning alarm will sound every 10 seconds, the low battery message LOW BATT will be shown on the Radio Status Display, and the battery indicator will blink. (Fig. 10)

•When the low battery warning mes- sage is displayed, the radio allows one final transmission but it will not allow further transmissions.

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