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West Marine VHF50 Radio Owner’s Manual 9
13. Scanning Channels
Scanning allows you to monitor the traffic
or conversations on several channels in
quick succession. This can be helpful if
you’re trying to listen to fishing traffic on
several channels, or need to monitor Race
Committee traffic on Channels 68, 69,
and 71.
As the radio detects traffic on any channel
in its scan list, it will pause until three
seconds after the last transmission, then
continue scanning.
Before you can scan channels, you need
to place two or more channels into the
radio’s scan memory.
Adding and removing chan-
nels from memory
To enter the displayed channel into Scan
Memory, press and hold the SCAN/MEM
key for two seconds. To remove the dis-
played channel from Scan Memory, press
and hold the SCAN/MEM key for two
seconds. If the displayed channel is in
scan memory, the MEM indicator will be
shown (Fig. 12a, 12b).
• Pressing the SCAN/MEM key in WX
Mode doesn’t store the Weather
Channel in memory and will result in
the error tone.
• Pressing the SCAN/MEM key while
scanning will stop scanning.
Scan Mode
Scan Mode scans the memorized chan-
nels in ascending (or descending) order.
Press andrelease the SCAN key. If
Channels 6, 12,68, 69 and 72 have been
entered intomemory, the scan sequence
will go from Channel 6 to 12 to 68 to 69
to 72 to 6 to 12 and so on. The
SCAN
indicator will be shown (Fig 12c).
Notes on Scanning
Fig. 12a: Channel in Scan Memory
Fig. 12b: Channel not in Scan Memory
Fig. 11c: Dual Watch/Weather Mode Display
Fig. 12c: Normal Scan Display