Setting The Key Beep; Adding Fips Codes - West Marine VHF 250 Owner's Manual

scroll to the Dual/TriWatch option. Press ENTER.
2. Press either ▲ or ▼ to reach either 16/9 TriWatch
(default) or 16 DualWatch. Press ENTER to select it.
A double beep sounds and the radio returns to the
root menu option screen.
3. Press MENU again to return to the marine mode.

Setting the Key Beep

[For All Bands]
Your VHF250 confi rms a key
press by sounding a short
single or double beep (default).
You can disable this sound.
1. From the band's menu
screen, press ▲ or ▼ to
highlight the KEY BEEP
option. Press ENTER to
select it.
2. Press ▲ or ▼ to select On or Off or Exit . Press
ENTER to save your selection. The display returns to
the band's menu screen.

Adding FIPS Codes

[For Marine/Weather Band Only]
To effectively use the Specifi c Area Message Encoding
feature (S.A.M.E.) entering the code specifi c to your
geographic location is required.
These codes that provide your radio with certain geographic
data, are known as FIPS or Federal Information
Processing Standards codes (FIPS codes). They are a
standardized set of numeric codes issued by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to ensure
uniform identifi cation of geographic entities through all
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