Boosting The Transmission Power; Choosing Triple Watch Or Dual Watch - PRESIDENT MC-8050 DSC Owner's Manual

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Boosting the transmission power

In most situations, the 1 Watt transmission power is all you need. If you find yourself far away

from other stations and have trouble getting a response, you may need to boost the transmis-

sion power from 1 Watt to 25 Watts:

1. Select the channel you want to transmit on.

2. Push and hold ent-1W/25W for two seconds. The display shows "25 Watts" in the up-

per left hand corner.

3. The transmit power remains at 25 Watts until you change the setting back. Push and

hold ent-1W/25W for two seconds. The display shows "1 Watt".

note: Don't forget to change the transmission setting back to 1 Watt when you

move closer to other stations.

note: By default, when you change to channel 16, the radio automatically

boosts the power to 25 Watts. Be sure to change the power back to 1 Watt if

you are not making an emergency transmission.

Some channels (for example, channels 13 and 67) limit the power of transmission to 1 Watt

so that there is less interference between boaters attempting to use the channel at the same

time. If you switch to one of these channels, the radio changes back to 1 Watt automatically.

See the channel lists beginning on page 40 for a list of power-restricted channels.

In Triple Watch mode, the radio briefly checks channels 16 and 9 every two seconds. In Dual

Watch mode, the radio checks channel 16 only. Generally, Triple Watch is used in areas

where channel 9 is used as a hailing frequency while Dual Watch is used in areas where

channel 16 is used for distress and hailing. Your radio comes set to use Triple Watch; if you

want to use Dual Watch instead, you will have to select it in the setup:

Press and hold -

1. Press and hold CALL MenU to display the normal menu.

2. Select Setup and then Dual/Tri Watch.

3. Choose Dual Watch and press ent-1W/25W. The radio activates the new setting and

returns to the Setup menu.

4. To reactive Triple Watch, repeat the procedure described above, but choose Triple

Watch in step 3.

Setup

Dual/TriWatch

Dual Watch

Triple Watch

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