Adjusting Display Contrast; Setting Dual Or Triwatch - West Marine VHF 150 Owner's Manual

Adjusting Display Contrast

You can adjust the contrast setting of the
LCD for various viewing conditions.
1. Press ▲ or ▼ from the RADIO
MENU screen to highlight Con-
trast Adjust. Press ENTER.
2. Press ▲ or ▼ to increase or decrease the level which
is indicated by the number displayed (01 to 10)
and the thermometer bar. You see the screen contrast
change as you change the setting from 01 to 10.
3.
Press ENTER to save your selection. The display re-
turns to the RADIO MENU screen.

Setting Dual or TriWatch

There are two specialty channels, 16, and
9. Channel 16 is the primary distress/
Coast Guard/Hailing channel while Chan-
nel 9 is typically the backup hailing/calling
channel for areas where there is higher
level of marine traffi c. Depending on your location, you can
choose to monitor both distress channel 16, the extra hailing
channel 9 as well as the radio channel you are otherwise us-
ing (TRIWATCH), or you can choose to only monitor channel
16 and your regular channel (DUALWATCH) which lets the ra-
dio check each channel more frequently.
1. From the RADIO MENU screen,
use ▲ or ▼ to reach the Dual/Tri-
Watch option. Press ENTER.
2. Press either ▲ or ▼ to reach ei-
ther 16/9 TriWatch (default) or 16 DualWatch. Press
ENTER to select it. A double beep sounds and the ra-
dio returns to the RADIO MENU screen.
3. Press MENU again to return to the marine mode.
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