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RF ENERGY EXPOSURE AND PRODUCT SAFETY GUIDE FOR
PORTABLE TWO-WAY RADIOS
Before using this radio, read this guide which contains
important operating instructions for safe usage and RF
energy awareness and control for compliance with
applicable standards and regulations.
This two-way radio uses electromagnetic energy in the radio
frequency (RF) spectrum to provide communications between
two or more users over a distance. RF energy, which when used
improperly, can cause biological damage.
All Retevis two-way radios are designed, manufactured, and tested
to ensure they meet government-established RF exposure levels.
In addition, manufacturers also recommend specific operating
instructions to users of two-way radios. These instructions are
important because they inform users about RF energy exposure
and provide simple procedures on how to control it.
Please refer to the following websites for more information on what
RF energy exposure is and how to control your exposure to assure
compliance with established RF exposure limits:
http://www.who.int/en/
Local Government Regulations
When two-way radios are used as a consequence of employment, the
Local Government Regulations requires users to be fully aware of
and able to control their exposure to meet occupational requirements.
Exposure awareness can be facilitated by the use of a product label
directing users to specific user awareness information. Your Retevis
two-way radio has a RF Exposure Product Label. Also, your Retevis
user manual, or separate safety booklet includes information and
operating instructions required to control your RF exposure and to
satisfy compliance requirements.
Radio License
Governments keep the radios in classification, business two-way
radios operate on radio frequencies that are regulated by the local
radio management departments (FCC).To transmit on these
frequencies, you are required to have a license issued by them.
The detailed classification and the use of your two radios, please
contact the local government radio management departments.
Use of this radio outside the country where it was intended to be
distributed is subject to government regulations and may be prohibited.
Unauthorized modification and adjustment
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party
responsible for compliance may void the user's authority granted
by the local government radio management departments to operate
this radio and should not be made. To comply with the corresponding
requirements, transmitter adjustments should be made only by or
under the supervision of a person certified as technically qualified
to perform transmitter maintenance and repairs in the private land
mobile and fixed services as certified by an organization representative
of the user of those services.
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