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West Marine VHF150 Radio Owner’s Manual
Adjusting Display Contrast
You can adjust the contrast setting of the
LCD for various viewing conditions.
Press
▲
or
▼
from the RADIO
MENU
screen to highlight
Con-
trast Adjust
. Press
ENTER
.
Press
▲
or
▼
to increase or decrease the level which
is indicated by the number displayed (01 to 10)
and the thermometer bar. You see the screen contrast
change as you change the setting from 01 to 10.
Press
ENTER
to save your selection. The display re-
turns to the
RADIO MENU
screen.
Setting Dual or TriWatch
There are two specialty channels, 16, and
9. Channel 16 is the primary distress/
Coast Guard/Hailing channel while Chan-
nel 9 is typically the backup hailing/calling
channel for areas where there is higher
level of marine traf
fi
c. Depending on your location, you can
choose to monitor both distress channel 16, the extra hailing
channel 9 as well as the radio channel you are otherwise us-
ing (TRIWATCH), or you can choose to only monitor channel
16 and your regular channel (DUALWATCH) which lets the ra-
dio check each channel more frequently.
From the
RADIO
MENU
screen,
use
▲
or
▼
to reach the
Dual/Tri-
Watch
option. Press
ENTER
.
Press either
▲
or
▼
to reach ei-
ther
16/9 TriWatch
(default) or
16 DualWatch
. Press
ENTER
to select it. A double beep sounds and the ra-
dio returns to the
RADIO MENU
screen.
Press
MENU
again to return to the marine mode.
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