How It Works - West Marine VHF155 Guide D'utilisation

Your radio has three main operation modes: normal,
scan, and weather.
Mode What it does
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
Checks the last-used weather
Weather Alert
channel for hazard alerts
Watch
every 7 seconds.
Checks channel 16 for
Dual Watch
activity every 2 seconds.
Checks channels 16 and 9
Triple Watch
for activity every 2 seconds.
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West Marine VHF155 Radio Owner's Manual

How It Works

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.
What it does
To turn it
on/off
(default
mode)
Press
Scan-Dual .
Press WX-
Alert .
To turn it on/off
Press and hold WX-Alert
for 2 seconds.
Press and hold Scan-
Dual for 2 seconds.
Press and hold 16/9-Tri
for 2 seconds.