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Uniden MHS550 Radio Owner’s Manual

How It Works

The MHS550 radio has three main operation modes, normal

mode, scan mode, and weather mode.

Mode What it does

Use it when you

want to...:

To turn it

on/off

Normal

mode

Monitors a single chan-

nel. In marine and FRS

bands, it allows you to

talk on that channel, too.

Monitor a channel or

talk to another radio.

(default

mode for

each radio

band)

Scan

mode

Monitors all the channels

you save into memory

Check a small group

of regularly-used

channels for trafc

Press SCAN-

MEM.

Weather

mode

Monitor the selected

NOAA weather channel.

You want to hear the

current or forecasted

weather in your area

Press WX-

ALERT.

In addition to the three operation modes, the MHS550

provides three different watch modes which you can activate

during any operation mode. In the watch modes, the radio

briey checks for activity on a specic 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

Triple Watch

Checks channels 16 and 9

for activity every 2 seconds

Press and hold 16/9-TRI for

two seconds

Dual Watch

Checks channel 16 for

activity every 2 seconds

Change Triple Watch to

Dual Watch in the menu,

then press and hold 16/9-

TRI for 2 seconds

Note: Private boats must monitor channel 16 when-

ever they are underway. Water-going vessels should

have either Triple Watch or Dual Watch on at all times.

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