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West Marine VHF250 Radio Owner’s Manual
federal government agencies. The entities covered include:
states and statistically equivalent entities, counties and
statistically equivalent entities, named populated and related
location entities (such as, places and county subdivisions),
and American Indian and Alaska Native areas.
Press
MENU
. From the
MARINE
MENU screen
,
use
▲
or
▼
to select the FIPS option. The screen
displays
FIPS Codes
and lets you select
Add or Exit
.
Note
: You can
fi
nd your area FIPS codes and other valuable
data from http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm. or by
telephone at 1-888-NWR-SAME [1-888-697-7263]
Once you locate the code for your county or area,
use
▲
or
▼
until the correct number appears on the
screen then press
ENTER
to select it. Repeat this for
all six digits.
Enter all the codes you wish, then move to
EXIT
and
ENTER
to select it. The radio returns to the
MARINE
MENU
screen.
Press
MENU
again to return to the marine mode.
Note
: You can add up to 20 FIPS codes to your radio.
1.
2.
3.
4.
F I P S C O D E S
E x i t
A d d
0 1 9 0 0 0
F I P S C O D E S
E x i t
A d d
0 1 9 0 0 0
0 2 _ _ _ _
P r e s s t h e U P o r D O W N
a r r o w k e y s t o s e l e c t
t h e c h a r a c t e r t h e n
P r e s s t h e e n t e r k e y
0 2 _ _ _ _
P r e s s t h e U P o r D O W N
a r r o w k e y s t o s e l e c t
t h e c h a r a c t e r t h e n
P r e s s t h e e n t e r k e y