Manually Selecting Coast Guard/Distress/Hailing Channels; Storing A Channel In Memory - West Marine VHF 150 Owner's Manual

Manually Selecting Coast Guard/Distress/
Hailing Channels
In addition to using Triple or Dual Watch to monitor the Coast
Guard/Distress/Hailing channels, you can manually select
them at any time.
To select your Coast Guard/Distress/Hailing channel,
repeatedly press 16/9/TRI. At the fi rst
press, the radio switches to channel 16,
the primary Coast Guard/Distress/Hailing
channel. 16 appears on the screen. Press
the button again to switch to channel 9, the
backup calling channel. 9 appears and NON COMMERCIAL
appears at the bottom. Press again to return to the standard
marine channels.
If you are listening to a weather (WX) channel and you press
16/9/TRI, the radio drops out of weather mode and switch-
es to channel 16 and displays 16. If you are also set to Tri-
Watch, the radio begin to check 9, then 16 then the marine
channel in use prior to selecting the weather mode.

Storing a Channel in Memory

Once you have stored channels in mem-
ory, you can set the radio to scan those
channels for activity. To select and store
a channel follow these steps.
1. Use ▲ or ▼ until you reach a channel you want to
store.
2. Press and hold SCAN/MEM to store the channel in
memory. A double beep sounds to confi rm your ac-
tion.
3. CHANNEL STORED appears at the bottom of the dis-
play.
4. If you take no further action, the screen returns to the
standard marine screen in 3-seconds.
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