Uniden ATLANTIS 155 English Owners Manual - Page 18

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 MEM. Weather Monitors the selected NOAA weather channel. Hear the current or forecasted weather. Press WX ALERT. In addition to the three operation modes, your radio provides two 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 Weather Alert Watch Checks the last-used weather channel for hazard alerts every 7 seconds. Triple Watch Checks channels 16 and 9 for activity every 2 seconds. To turn it on/off Press and hold WX ALERT for 2 seconds. Press and hold 16/9 TRI for 2 seconds. ## Note: Private boats must monitor channel 16 whenever they are underway. Water-going vessels should have Triple Watch on at all times. NORMAL MODE OPERATION xx To transmit, remove the radio from the charger, then press and hold the PTT key. Release the key when you are finished talking. xx For the best sound quality, hold the microphone about two inches from your mouth while you're talking. E-18 Uniden Atlantis 155 Owner's Manual