How It Works - Uniden MHS126 Owner's Manual

Your radio has three main operation modes: Normal,
Scan, and Weather.
Mode
Monitors a single marine
Normal channel and lets you
talk on that channel.
Monitors all the
Scan channels you save into
memory.
Monitors the selected
Weather
NOAA weather channel.
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
underway. Water-going vessels should have either Triple
Watch or Dual Watch on at all times.
E-10

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.
Uniden MHS126 Radio Owner's Manual
Use it when you
want to...
Monitor a channel or
talk to another radio.
Check a small group
of regularly-used
channels 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.
To turn it
on/off
(default
mode)
Press
SCAN/
DUAL .
Press WX/
ALERT .