Operation Manual

Important Note

Your Albrecht AE 4200 R corresponds to the latest European CB standards. As a

unique feature, it has a software country switching which allows selecting the

operation mode according to the country, where You intend to use the radio. Please

make sure that You use only the country switching which is allowed in Your country

and according to Your CB licence! You may risk a penalty if authority members

will find that You are operating in not allowed modes!

During first use of this radio, Your radio will start in this factory preselected 40

FM / 40 AM mode:

40/40 40 channels FM / 4 Watt, 40 channels AM / 1 Watt. Latest

European Standard EN 300 433-2, but not yet applied in all

countries. In Belgium, Italy, Spain and Switzerland /Liechtenstein

You need a licence to operate the radio, while it is already free of

charges and licence in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia,

Finland , France , Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and

Romania. For Spain and Poland, we have special versions

which allows 4 Watts AM, but this versions are only allowed to

be used in Spain (You also need a licence from the local

telecommunications authority for using the Spanish version) or

Poland. For Austria we supply a CEPT version without

country switch (on request).

80/40 80 channels FM / 4 Watt, 40 channels AM / 1 Watt for Germany,

also for CZ (only FM) and SK (only FM 1-40 & 70-80) allowed to

use. You need no more any licence to operate the radio in this

mode, but in certain German border regions transmitting from

base stations on channels 41 to 80 in FM is not allowed (or only

with a special license).

40 FM 40 channels FM / 4 Watt (former “CEPT” settings with 40

Channels FM according to EN 300 135-2). This mode can be

used in all European countries (some countries still request an

individual licence, even for 40 FM mode! See our latest issue of

the “Radio Passport”).

Please note that radios with country switches are generally not allowed to be

used in Austria. The new EU member states have now implemented the

European regulations. Please refer to official information of the local

authorities before using the radio in other countries outside EU.