West Marine Marine Radio 14078562 User Manual

Making a Distress

Call ............ (inside front cover)

Table of Contents

Introduction ............................ E-1

Features .................................. E-1
Getting Started ....................... E-4

What’s Included ....................... E-4

Parts of the VHF160 ................ E-5

Front view .......................... E-5

Back view ........................... E-5

Charger .............................. E-7

Reading the Display ................ E-7

Display icons and what

they mean ..................... E-8

How It Works .......................... E-9

Normal Mode Operation ........ E-10

Normal mode with

Weather Alert Watch ... E-10

Normal mode with Triple

Watch or Dual Watch .. E-11

Scan Mode Operation ............ E-11

Using the radio in Scan

mode .......................... E-12

Scan mode with Weather

Alert Watch ................. E-12

Scan mode with Triple

Watch or Dual Watch .. E-13

Both Weather Alert and

Triple/Dual Watch in

Scan mode ................. E-14

Weather Mode ....................... E-14

Using the radio in weather

mode........................... E-15

Weather mode with

Weather Alert Watch ... E-15

Weather mode with Triple

Watch or Dual Watch .. E-15

Setting Up the Hardware ..... E-16

Attaching the Antenna ........... E-16

Installing the Battery .............. E-16

Using the Alkaline Battery

Tray ................................... E-16

Mounting the Charger ............ E-18

Charging the Battery .............. E-18

Important notes on

charging the battery .... E-19

Attaching the Belt Clip ........... E-19
Using Your Radio ................. E-20

Turning It On ......................... E-20

Setting It Up ........................... E-20

Changing the volume ...... E-20

Setting the Squelch level . E-20

Reading volume and

squelch level

on battery icon ............ E-21

Setting the UIC channel

mode (USA/CAN/INT) E-22

Using the WX Mode ............... E-22

Making a Transmission .......... E-22

Selecting a channel .......... E-22

Making a transmission ..... E-22

Boosting the

transmission power..... E-23

Saving Channels to Memory . E-24

Special Features .................... E-24