How It Works - West Marine VHF255 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 four 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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West Marine VHF255 Radio Owner's Manual

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.
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 -
MEM for 2 seconds.
Press and hold BAND -
16/9-TRI for 2 seconds.
To turn it
on/off
(default
mode)
Press SCAN
- MEM .
Press WX-
ALERT .