How It Works - PRESIDENT PM-2050 SWF Owner's Manual

Your radio has three main operation modes: Normal, Scan, and Weather.
Mode
Normal Monitors a single
marine channel and
lets you talk on that
channel.
Scan Monitors all the chan-
nels you save into
memory.
Weather Monitors the selected
NOAA weather chan-
nel.
In addition to the three operation modes, your radio provides three different
watch modes which you can activate during any operation mode. In the watch
modes, the radio briefly checks for activity on a specific channel, then returns
to its previous operation.
Watch mode
Weather Alert
Watch
Dual Watch
Triple Watch
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Private boats must monitor channel 16 whenever they are un-
derway. Water-going vessels should have either Triple Watch or
Dual Watch on at all times.

How It Works

What it does
What it does
Checks the last-used weather
channel for hazard alerts
every 7 seconds.
Checks channel 16 for activity
every 2 seconds.
Checks channels 16 and 9 for
activity every 2 seconds.
Use it when you
want to...
Monitor a channel or
talk to another radio.
Check a small group of
regularly-used chan-
nels for traffic.
Hear the current or
forecasted weather.
To turn it on/off
Press and hold WX/
ALERT for 2 seconds.
Press and hold SCAN/
DUAL for 2 seconds.
Press and hold 16/9/TRI
for 2 seconds.
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To turn it
on/off
(default
mode)
Press
SCAN/
DUAL.
Press WX/
ALERT.