Sonifex COURIER, User Handbook Manual

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Chapter 2 - Introduction
Courier User Handbook 2-1
2. Introduction
2.1. What’s supplied with your Courier ?
Each Courier is shipped with the following equipment. Please check your
packaging to ensure that you have all of the items below. If anything is missing,
please contact the supplier of your equipment immediately.
Where an item is found to have transit damage, notify the carrier immediately with
all the relevant details of the shipment. Packing materials should be kept for
inspection.
Quantity Item
1 Courier portable recorder
1 Carry case
1 Carry strap
1 Universal power supply with 4 different plug adapters
1 1200mAh NiCd battery
1 Serial communication cable (RS-232 to RS-232)
1 3.5” disk containing Courier Configuration Manager software
1 Handbook and warranty card
The first thing to do is to complete your warranty card and to send this back to
Sonifex Ltd in the United Kingdom. This way, you can be sure to receive any
information on software updates for the Courier.
2.2. Summary of features
Courier is a compact, battery powered digital audio recorder designed for in-the-
field applications and digital news gathering.
Courier uses industry standard PCMCIA hard disks and flash-cards (PC cards) to
store high quality digital audio. The PC cards can be changed very quickly and are
capable of storing between 11 minutes and 289 hours of audio. (See Section 12.1.7
for detailed information of recording durations).