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West Marine VHF150 Radio Owner’s Manual
Note:
If you enable TripleWatch or DualWatch from a Weather
Channel, the same watch cycle occurs. When the radio
checks the selected weather channel, the screen displays
Weather Band
in the upper left corner. When the radio
checks Channel 9, Channel 16, or both, the screen brie
fl
y
displays
Marine Band
at the upper left.
If you momentarily press
SCAN/MEM
, the TripleWatch or
DualWatch functions as described above. Channels stored
in memory are also scanned. If you want to change the
channels being scanned, momentarily press
SCAN/MEM
again, or press
WX
or
PTT,
to exit scanning (TripleWatch
or DualWatch continues). Then use
▲
or
▼
to manually
select another marine channel and store it. Momentarily
press
SCAN/MEM
to resume scanning.
In scan mode, the radio pauses on an active channel and
resumes scanning 2 seconds after the channel activity
ceases.
Using Scan with Triple Watch,
Dual Watch, or Weather Alert
Triple Watch and Dual Watch Only
To activate normal channel SCAN mode, momentarily press
SCAN/MEM
. The radio scans all the channels stored in
memory from lowest to highest. The display shows
CHAN-
NEL SCAN
at the bottom.
To initialize TripleWatch scanning, press and hold
16/9/TRI.
Now
TRIWATCH
appears at the bottom while the scanning
changes to the following sequence: The memory channels
are scanned then the radio checks chan-
nel 9 then channel 16 every 2-seconds. If
you have set Dual Watch as your default
mode, using the RADIO MENU, channel 9
is not checked and
DUALWATCH SCAN
appears on the display.
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