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West Marine VHF160 Radio Owner’s Manual
Using the radio in Scan mode
To activate Scan mode, press SCAN/DUAL.
You must have at least two channels in memory to start
a scan. However, you cannot save marine channel 70 or
Weather channels.
You cannot transmit while in Scan mode.
To save a channel into memory, select the channel, then
press MEM/SOS. The MEM icon displays whenever you
tune to that channel.
To remove a channel from memory, set the radio to that
channel, then press MEM/SOS. The MEM icon no longer
displays.
When the radio stays on a channel, press Channel Up to
leave that channel and resume scanning.
To end the scan, press the SCAN/DUAL button again; the
radio remains on the last scanned channel.
Scan mode with Weather Alert Watch
If you activate Weather Alert Watch while in Scan mode, the
radio checks the most recently/used weather channel every
seven seconds, then continues scanning the next channel in
memory:
Every 7 seconds, the radio
checks the last-used
weather channel, then
scans the next channel.
wx
WX Alert
Watch on
Memory Channel Scan
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