Standard Horizon HX400, Owner'S Manual

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1. GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on your purchase of the HX400 ! Whether this is your first
portable marine VHF transceiver, or if you have other STANDARD HORIZON
equipment, the STANDARD HORIZON organization is committed to ensuring
your enjoyment of this high performance transceiver, which should provide
you with many years of satisfying communications even in the harshest of
environments. STANDARD HORIZON technical support personnel stands
behind every product sold, and we invite you to contact us should you require
technical advice or assistance.
The HX400 is a JIS-8 / IPX8 (1.5 m (about 5Ft) for 30 minutes) Submersible 5-
Watt portable two way marine transceiver with the capability to be programmed
with 40 LMR (Land Mobile Radio) channels with CTCSS or DCS signalling by
a dealer. The transceiver has all allocated USA, Canadian, or International
channels. It has emergency channel 16 which can be immediately selected
from any channel by pressing the
key.
The HX400 includes the following features: 10 programmable Preset Chan-
nels, Memory, Priority, Dual Watch and TRI-Watch scanning, Battery Saver,
easy-to-read large LCD display, EEPROM memory back-up, Battery Life dis-
played on the LCD, and a transmit Time-Out Timer (TOT), Noise Canceling
Microphone and Voice Scrambler.
The HX400 transmitter provides a full 5 Watt of transmit power and also is
selectable to 1 Watt to assist the user in ensuring maximum battery life.
We appreciate your purchase of the HX400 , and encourage you to read this
manual thoroughly, so as to learn and fully understand the capabilities of the
HX400 .
1.2 RF EXPOSURE SAFETY STATEMENT
Your wireless handheld portable transceiver contains a low power transmitter.
When the Push-To-Talk (
PTT :
) button is pushed, the transceiver sends out
radio frequency (RF) signals.
This device is authorized to operate at a duty factor not to exceed 50% (this
corresponds to 50% transmission time and 50% reception time).
This transmitter and its antenna must maintain a separation distance of at
least 1 inch (2.5 cm) from your face. Speak in a normal voice, with the antenna
pointed up and away from the face at the required separation distance.
Use only the supplied antenna. Unauthorized antennas, modifications, or at-
tachments could damage the transmitter.