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E-8 West Marine VHF460 Radio Owner’s Manual
In addition to the three operation modes, your radio provides three different watch modes
which you can activate during any operation mode. In the watch modes, the radio briey
checks for activity on a specic channel, then returns to its previous operation.
Watch mode What it does To turn it on/off
Weather Alert
Watch
Checks the last-used weather channel for
hazard alerts every few seconds.
Select
on or off
from the
Normal/WX Alert
menu.
Dual Watch
Checks emergency channel 16 for activity
every few seconds.
Select dual watch from the
Normal/Dual/
TriWatch
menu and press and hold 16/9-Tri
for 2 seconds.
Triple Watch
Checks emergency channels 16 and 9 for
activity every few seconds.
Select triple watch from the
Normal/Dual/
TriWatch
menu and press and hold 16/9-Tri
for 2 seconds.
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Normal
x To transmit, remove the radio from the charger, then press and hold Push to Talk.
Release the button when you are nished talking.
x For the best sound quality, hold the microphone about two inches from your mouth
while you’re talking.
x Press Channel Up to move up one channel at a time. Press and hold the button to
scroll quickly up through the channels.
x Press Channel Down to move down one channel at a time. Press and hold the button
to scroll quickly down through the channels.
x To change the transmit power, press and hold GPS/ENT H/M/L. The transmit power
cycles through LOW (1W), MID (2.5W), and HI (6W), then back to LOW again. Press
BOOST on the left side of the radio to boost the transmit power to 6W (Lithium Ion
battery) or to 1.5W (NiMH batteries).
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Normal Mode with Weather Alert Watch
If you activate Weather Alert Watch while
operating in Normal mode, the radio checks the most
recently used weather channel every seven
seconds. If it detects a weather or other hazard alert,
it will switch to that weather channel. (If you are actively
transmitting, the radio waits until you nish your transmission
before checking the weather channel.)
Normal Mode with Triple Watch or Dual Watch
If you activate Triple Watch while operating in Normal mode, the radio checks channels 16
and 9 every few seconds; with Dual Watch turned on, the radio only checks channel 16.
The radio will not check channels 16 or 9 while you are actively transmitting; it waits until
your transmission is nished and then checks the channels.
wx
Every 7 seconds,
the radio checks
the last-used
weather channel.
WX Alert
Watch on
Monitoring Channel 25