Owner`s manual

West Marine VHF100 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
Press the MEM key to enter the displayed
channel into scan memory or, if the chan-
nel is currently in scan memory, remove it
from scan memory. (Figs. 13a and 13b) If
the displayed channel is in scan memory,
the MEM indicator will be shown.
• Pressing MEM in WX Mode doesn’t
store the Weather Channel in memory
and will result in the error tone.
• Pressing the MEM key while scan-
ning will result in the error tone.
Normal Scan
Normal Scan scans the memorized chan-
nels in ascending (or descending) order.
To enter Normal Scan Mode, press and
release the SCAN key. (Fig. 13c) If
Channels 6, 12, 68, 69, and 72 have been
entered into memory, 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. 13a: Memory Function On Display
Fig. 13b: Memory Function Off Display
Fig. 13c:
Normal Scan Display