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Page 4: ...ut your radios within the air bag expand coverage Do not expose the radio to direct sunlight over a long time nor place it close to the heating equipment Do not place the radio in any excessively dusty humid or wet place nor an unstable surface When the portable radio is transmitting please hold the radio in a vertical position and speak to the Microphone 1 SAFETY INFORMATION WARNING If you wear a...

Page 5: ...r or retailer for information about options available Install the antenna as shown in the figure below and turn it clockwise until it stops Note When installing the antenna don t rotate it by its top holding it by its base and turn If you use an external antenna make sure the SWR is about 1 5 1 or less to avoid damage to the transceiver s final transistors Do not hold the antenna with your hand or...

Page 6: ...ters and then remove the battery from the radio s body 6 BATTERY CHARGING Use only the charger specified by the manufacturer The charger s LED indicates the charging progress Please use the supplied charger to charge up the battery pack And refer to the operation way as below 1 Put the adapter s DC plug into charger s DC jack which located at rear of charger 2 Put the adapter into AC power s socke...

Page 7: ...io during charging will affect the battery pack to be charged normally 3 During charging do not plug in pull out the power supply or the battery frequently it would affect battery charging 4 Do not charge when the battery or radio is wet Please dry it with a soft cloth before charging 5 The battery life is over when the operating time is obviously shorter than normal even if it s fully and correct...

Page 8: ... alarm function at this moment the green light red light and hand lamp flashes shin at the same time Press this button again to release the alarm PTT Press and hold PTT button then talk to the microphone Release PTT to receive SK SIDE KEY1 F Press the F button to activate the FM Radio on Press it again to deactivate the FM Radio SK SIDE KEY2 MONI Press the MONI button to turn on the flashlight Pre...

Page 9: ...M radio inactivated press MONI to make noise then press PTT can temporarily switch High Low power of selected channel selected by selector Meanwhile report the state of Dual Band Dual Watch Mode TDR mode If it is on report TDR ON it is off report TDR OFF Voice prompt Transmitting Power 1 is low power transmitting Transmitting Power 5 is high power transmitting 9 5 MONI CHANNEL With dual band state...

Page 10: ...trol center with decoding succeed or re programmed via software 10 3 1750Hz TONE This function is used to awake the sleeping repeater station Press the programmed 1750Hz Tone key to activate the 1750Hz Tone press this key again to exit it When 1750Hz Tone is activated press PTT key to transmit 1750Hz Tone first then transmit normal signals The receiver whom receives the 1750Hz Tone will sound Beep...

Page 11: ... same time Priority Channel Scan Sometimes you may need to keep an eye on a prefer channel while you are scanning other channels You can set up any channels as the priority channel which means the radio will scan this priority channel and other normal channels alternately Press the programmed Priority Channel Scan key to activate this function and press this key again to exit For example there are...

Page 12: ... the alert tone and turn back to receiving mode QT DQT If QT DQT and BCL are set on the current channel press the PTT key to transmit on a channel which is in use once the radio decodes failed it will sound alert tone and stop transmitting Please release PTT key to stop the alert tone and turn back to receiving mode OFF You still can transmit on a channel which is in use 11 4 SELECT WIDE NARROW BA...

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