Using Your Radio - Uniden UM380 Owner's Manual

You cannot transmit while in weather mode.
Using the radio in weather mode
To enter weather mode, press
x
Weather mode can filter out alerts that do not affect your location if the location code
x
(FIPS code) of the alert is entered in your radio (see page 19). If you have no FIPS codes
x
programmed into your radio, the radio will notify you of all alerts in any area.
To turn off the radio's alert tone, press any button.
To cancel weather mode and return to the previous marine channel, press the WX-MEM
x
button again.
x
Because weather mode already monitors the weather channels, you don't need Weather
Weather mode with Weather Alert Watch
Alert Watch to check the weather channel every seven seconds. If you activate Weather Alert
Watch while operating in weather mode, it operates as a type of "sleep mode": the radio stays
on the weather channel and mutes the speaker. If an alert is detected for your area, the radio
sounds an alert tone and turns the speaker back on. This mode is very useful when you are
anchoring for the night but want to stay informed of any hazards in your area.
To turn Weather Alert Watch on or off, press and hold
Select Setup and then WX Alert Mode. Use
Mode setting ON or Off.
If you activate Triple Watch while operating
Weather mode with Triple and Dual Watch
in weather mode, the radio checks channels 16
and 9 every two seconds; with Dual Watch
turned on, the radio only checks channel 16.
Press and hold
seconds to turn Triple/Dual Watch on or off.
16/9-TRI
(To change between Triple or Dual Watch, see
page 18.)
To display the radio call menu, press

using YOur raDiO

hold . The menu has the following options:
CALL-MENU
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WX-MEM
CHANNEL UP
on the radio for two
CALL-MENU
while the radio is idle.
and
CALL-MENU
CHANNEL DOWN
Monitoring Weather Channel WX08
09 16 09 16
Triple Watch:
Every 2 seconds, the
radio checks channel 9, then channel 16.
. To display the radio normal menu, press and
to choose WX Alert
09 16