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West Marine VHF460 Radio Owner’s Manual

After your radio is submerged in water, the sound might be distorted. This 

is because there is still water remaining in and around the speaker and 

microphone. Just shake the radio to clear excess water, and the sound should 

return to normal.
If your radio is exposured to salt water, clean it thoroughly with fresh water 

and dry it before turning it on.
The charger is not waterproof. 

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Memory Scan mode. Lets you save channels to memory and monitor them in quick 

succession. 

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Transmitter power level select. Lets you boost the transmitter power from 1W to 2.5 

or 6W for added transmission distance.

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Battery level display and low battery alert.

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Dual and Triple Watch operation. These different watch modes let you monitor up to 

two Coast Guard Distress/Hailing channels and one weather channel along with one 

regular marine channel.

 x All marine VHF channels for the U.S., Canada, and international waters

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Emergency 16/09 Channel monitoring. Set unit to scan one or both of these 

emergency channels regularly within normal scanning cycles.

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Class D second receiver is dedicated to monitoring the DSC watch channel 70 to 

ensure that no incoming messages are missed.

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watch. Sounds a warning tone when a hazard alert is issued.

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SOS Strobe/Flashlight. A high intensity strobe LED can be set to blink an SOS 

pattern or to be steady on.

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Key Lock. Locks keys to prevent accidentally changing channels or entering data.

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Selectable Backlight Timer. Lets you select the length of time the backlight will be 

on.

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Reversable LCD. You can change the display from light characters on dark 

background to dark characters on light background.

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DSC. Lets you call other stations or groups using their unique identification code. This 

radio complies with International Class D DSC standards for Handheld GPS/VHF 

marine transceivers.

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GPS (Favorite Position mode). Lets you to save your current position as well as 

manually enter other positions.You can save positions into a directory to return to them 

as desired.

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NMEA input/output. Lets you connect to a chartplotter and send current GPS position 

and incoming DSC position information (Distress calls, other boat’s position, etc) to the 

chart plotter screen.

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9 weather channels available for monitoring.

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Boost. Allows you to instantly transmit at a full 6 Watts. 

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MOB (Man Overboard). Lets you lock onto the current position when a Man 

Overboard situation occurs.