Scan Mode - West Marine VHF580 Owner's Manual

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Press and hold
Watch on or off. (To change between Triple or Dual Watch, see page 18.)
16/9-TRI
You can activate Weather Alert Watch and
Normal mode with both Weather Alert and Triple/Dual Watch
Triple/ Dual Watch at the same time. The
radio performs both checks at their
scheduled time.
You can save channels into memory and

scan mode

then use scan mode to monitor those
channels. When the radio detects a signal on a channel, it pauses on that channel as long as
the signal is received; when the transmission stops, the radio will continue scanning.
When it detects a signal, the radio stays on the
channel until you press the
signal stops.
08
10
The radio scans about
5 channels in 1 second.
In scan mode, you can get the
following information
from the display (some
indicators will not always
be displayed).
(on the radio or the microphone) for two seconds to turn Triple/Dual
Monitoring Channel 25
09 16
Triple Watch:
the radio checks channels 9 & 16.
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12
13
Transmit power
last used
All scanned
channels must
be in memory
Normal scan
mode or Triple/
Dual-watch on
09 16
09 16
Every 2 seconds,
Monitoring Channel 25
09 16
Triple Watch:
Every 2 seconds,
the radio checks channels 9 & 16.
button or the
CHANNEL UP
1 Watt
USA
Memory
Scanning Channels
01A,05A,06,07A,08
09 16
09 16
wx
WX Alert :
Every 7 seconds,
the radio checks the most
recently-used weather channel.
Resume scan
17
20
15
Channel mode
(USA, CANadian,
or INTernational)
07
Status
A
icons
Current channel
being scanned
Scan list (if the
text is too long,
the line scrolls)
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