Uniden ATLANTIS 270 English Owner's Manual - Page 11

Icon What it means Displays when Squelch mode is turned on. How It Works Your radio has three main operation modes: normal, scan, and weather. Mode Normal What it does Use it when you To turn it on/ want to... off Monitors a single marine channel and lets you talk on that channel. Monitor a channel or talk to another radio. (default mode) Scan Monitors all the channels you save into memory. Check a small group of regularly-used channels for traffic. Press SCAN/ DUAL Weather Monitors the selected NOAA weather channel. Hear the current or Press WX forecasted weather. ALERT. In addition to the three operation modes, your radio provides four different watch modes which you can activate during any operation mode. In the watch modes, the radio briefly checks for activity on a specific 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 7 seconds. Press and hold WX ALERT for 2 seconds. Dual Watch Checks channel 16 for activity Press and hold SCAN/ every 2 seconds. DUAL for 2 seconds. Triple Watch Checks channels 16 and 9 for Press and hold 16/9-Tri activity every 2 seconds. for 2 seconds. ## Note: Private boats must monitor channel 16 whenever they are underway. Water-going vessels should have either Triple Uniden Atlantis 270 Radio Owner's Manual E-7