Boosting The Transmission Power; Choosing Triple Watch Or Dual Watch - Uniden UM415BK Owner's Manual

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

Boosting the transmission power

away from other stations and have trouble getting a response, you may need to boost the
transmission power from 1 Watt to 25 Watts:
1.
Select the channel you want to transmit on.
2.
Push and hold
hand corner.
3.
The transmit power remains at 25 Watts until you change the setting back. Push and
hold
ENT-1W/25W
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
Some channels (for example, channels 13 and 67) limit the power of transmission to 1 Watt
emergency transmission.
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

Choosing triple Watch or Dual Watch

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 -
Press and hold -
1.
Press and hold
2.
Select Setup and then Dual/Tri Watch.
3.
Choose Dual Watch and press
to the Setup menu.
4.
To reactive Triple Watch, repeat the procedure described above, but choose Triple
Watch in step 3.
1 English
for two seconds. The display shows 25 Watts in the upper left
ENT-1W/25W
for two seconds. The display shows 1 Watt.
Setup
Setup
to display the normal menu.
CALL MENU
ENT-1W/25W
Dual/TriWatch
Dual/TriWatch
Dual/TriWatch
Dual/TriWatch
Dual Watch
Dual Watch
Triple Watch
Triple Watch
[Exit]
[Exit]
Back[CLR]
Back[CLR]
. The radio activates the new setting and returns
88
88
A
A
Select[ENT]
Select[ENT]

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