Uniden UM435 Owner s Manual - Page 13

HOW IT WORKS Your radio has three basic modes of operation: Mode What It Does Use It When To Turn it on/ off... Monitors a single Normal marine radio channel and lets you talk on You want to talk to another station on a specific channel. (default mode) that channel. Scan Monitors all the channels you save into memory. You have a small group of channels you use most often and want to check them for traffic. Press and hold the CLR-SCAN button. Monitors the selected Weather NOAA weather channel. You want to hear the current and forecasted weather in your area. Press the WX-MEM button. In addition to the three basic operation modes, your radio also provides three different "watch" modes which you can activate during any of the three basic modes. In these watch modes, the radio briefly checks for activity on a specific channel then returns to its previous mode. Watch Mode Weather Alert What It Does Use It When Checks for alerts on the last weather channel you used every seven seconds. You want to be made aware of severe weather conditions in your area. To Turn it on./off... Select WX-ALERT Mode in Setup submenu, and then choose ON or OFF. Triple Checks for activity on channels 16 and 9 every two seconds. You want to monitor a channel yet maintain a watch on channels 16 and 9. Dual Checks for activity on You want to monitor a channel 16 every two channel yet maintain a seconds. watch on channel 16. Press and hold 16/9-TRI for two seconds. Change Triple Watch to Dual Watch in the Setup menu, then press and hold 16/9-TRI for two seconds. ## NOTE: You are required to monitor channel 16 whenever your boat is underway. You should have either Triple Watch or Dual Watch on at all times. NORMAL MODE OPERATION Normal mode monitors whatever channel you select, and you can transmit on that channel also. While using normal mode, the display lets you see the following information (not all indicators will display at the same time): 5