USER MANUAL
SAFETY INFORMATION FOR USER CRT transceiver is excellently designed with advanced technology. Please observe the following precautions to perform your obligation, prevent personal injury and ensure the safety of transceiver usage. 1. Keep the transceiver and accessories away from children. 2. Please do not try to open or modify the transceiver without permission, non-professionals process may also cause damage. 3. Please use assorted battery and charger to avoid damage. 4.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PURCHASE! Features include 199 memory channels, memory banks, UV-VV-UU modes, dual PTT(programmable), 51 groups CTCSS encode/decode, 1 group user-defined CTCSS encode/decode, 1024 groups DCS encode/ decode, plus 2Tone, 5Tone and DTMF encode/decode. Unique features include the ability to adjust squelch level on-the-ly, display both channel mode and frequency mode at the same time, skip interfering channels while scanning and choose single or dual PTT buttons.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENS .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 01 Contents ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 01 STANDARD ACCESSORIES/ADDITIONAL ACCESSORIES ..................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS Delete channel ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 Programming scan ................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 SHORTCUT OPERATIONS ..........................................................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS Programming software starting (Takes Windows XP system for example) ........................................................... 34 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 35 ATTACHED CHART .................................................................................................................................................................
STANDARD ACCESSORIES/ADDITIONAL ACCESSORIES Standard Accessories Antenna Li-ion Battery Battery Charger AC Adaptor Belt Clip Additional Accessories USB Programming Cable Earphone Battery Pack for Car Charger Handheld Microphone 04 Car Charger Clone cable
OPERATION MODE 1. How to choose a operation Mode: A. By programming software:In PC software's "General Setting" menu to choose "Display Mode", channel mode works as Professional transceiver, other two modes as Amateur transceiver. B. By manual setup:Please refer to "Display Mode" . 2. Amateur Mode: Under this mode, press key can switch between Channel mode and VFO mode. A.
BATTERY INFORMATION How to Charge 1. Plug the AC adaptor into the AC outlet, then plug the cable of AC adaptor into the DC jack, the indicator lights orange for 1s and turns into GREEN---waits to charge. 2. Slide the battery or transceiver with battery into the Ac Input charger; make sure the battery terminals are in contact with the charging terminals. LED turns into twinkling RED---pre-charging begins. 3. Pre-charging for about 5 minutes, LED twinkles stop then charging begins. 4. It takes about 5.
BATTERY INFORMATION 6. LED Indicator: STATUS LED Charge Full self-examine Trouble (No battery) Pre-charging normally Charged when power on Orange Red light twinkles Red twinkles Green Red Green (for 1 second) for 5 minutes for a long time NOTE: Trouble means battery heating, battery short-circuit or charger short-circuit. Charging Prompt 1. Self- examination: When charging, ORANGE light twinkles for 1 second and goes out.
GETTING ACQUAINTED LCD Display On LCD display screen, you will see various icons which stand for the selected functions and sometimes you may forget the meaning of them. Here you will find the following table extremely useful.
GETTING ACQUAINTED 1 Antenna 2 Selector Knob 3 Power/Volume switch 1 4 Emergency Aarm 5 TX/RX indicator 6 LCD display 7 Keypad 2 3 5 4 8 PTT key 9 PF1 key 8 SP 9 MIC 6 10 13 BAND MSK DCIN 12 11 10 PF2 key 11 J 12 Car charging port 13 Single-band Switching 7 14 14 Memory Bank 09
BASIC OPERATIONS Switch between Main band and Sub band Under standby state, press key to switch between Main band and Sub band. Arrow indicates the Main band. Switch between Channel mode and VFO mode Under standby state, press mode (VFO). key to set main band as Channel mode or frequency Channel Adjusting With transceiver in Channel mode or FM radio channel mode, rotate channel switch to adjust channel. Rotate channel switch clockwise to increase channel number, anticlockwise to decrease channel number.
BASIC OPERATIONS NOTE: Channel step:2.5K, 5K, 6.25K, 10K, 12.5K, 20K, 25K, 30K and 50KHz in total 9 for optional. FM radio step frequency is 50K. Frequency Input by Keypad Under frequency mode or FM radio frequency mode, you can directly enter frequency through keypad. 1. When your transceiver is under Channel mode, press key to switch into VFO. NOTE: When the transceiver is under Channel mode, it shows current channel number on the right of main frequency. 2. Enter the desired frequency by keypad.
BASIC OPERATIONS 1. Squelch off: Press [PF2] key, squelch circuit is not mute, back-ground noise can be heard. Press [PF2] key again, squelch circuit is mute. 2. Squelch off Momentary: Press and hold [PF2] key, squelch circuit is not mute, back-ground noise can be heard. Release [PF2] key, squelch circuit is mute. NOTE: The above functions are only available after [PF2] key setup in programming software. When in channel mode, opening squelch will show the frequency of the channel.
BASIC OPERATIONS Emergency Alarm Under standby state, press and hold [PF1] key (when programmed for ALARM function) or press the Emer -gency Alarm keyuntil LCD displays "ALARM", Emergency alarm function is started. This transceiver has 4 Alarm modes that can be setup in programming software. Power off transceiver to exit Alarm. Side Key [PF1] function instruction [PF1] key can be setup in for below functions: 1.
BASIC OPERATIONS Side key [PF2] function instruction 1. Squelch off: Press [PF2] key, squelch circuit is not mute, back-ground noise can be heard. Press [PF2] key again, squelch circuit is mute. 2. Squelch off Momentary: Press and hold [PF2] key, squelch circuit is not mute, back-ground noise can be heard. Release [PF2] key, squelch circuit is mute. 3. Transmit DTMF/5TONE/2TONE signaling: Press and hold [PTT] key, then press [PF2] key to transmit selected DTMF/5TONE/2TONE signaling. 4.
BASIC OPERATIONS 2. Rotate channel switch to select desired deleting channel number. 3. Press key, the top left corner of LCD displays " " icon, press and hold key until transceiver emits "DUDU" beep and clear up frequency information of current channel, deletion is successful. NOTE: This process can be applied for deleting FM radio channels. Programming scan Setup the frequency of L1 channel, U1 channel, L2 channel and U2 channel will realize VFO frequency scanning border limited.
SHORTCUT OPERATIONS Turn On/ Off FM Radio This radio has FM/AM/SW/LW total 4 FM radio bands. Press key then press key to turn on FM radio, later press key then press key to switch between FM/AM/SW/LW band, press key will mute /un-mute FM radio. FM: 64~108MHz(RX) (100 memory channels CH00~CH99 AM: 118~136MHz(RX) (100 memory channels CH00~CH99 SW: 2.3~29.99MHz(RX) LW: 0.52~1.71MHz(RX) Note:AM/SW/LW require special antenna. When AM is on, the downside RX channel is occupied.
SHORTCUT OPERATIONS CTCSS/DCS Scan Press key, the top left corner of LCD displays " " icon, press key to enter into CTCSS/DCS scan. Under this state, rotate channel switch to change scan direction. When scan the matching CTCSS/DCS signaling, it will stay 5seconds and then go on scanning. Press any other keys except , , MSK key to exit. NOTE: This function is invalid when transceiver works in professional mode or the arrow directed channel no setting CTCSS/DCS signaling.
SHORTCUT OPERATIONS Frequency/Channel Scan Under corresponding mode, press key, the top left corner of LCD displays " " icon, then press key to start frequency scan or channel scan. 1. Frequency Scan Under VFO mode, frequency scan is available. This function is used for monitoring signal of various communication frequency by transceiver ‘step’ setup, press numeric key or key to exit. 2. Channel Scan Under channel mode, this function is used for monitoring signal of each channel in this mode.
SHORTCUT OPERATIONS Frequency Reverse Under standby state, press key, the top left corner of LCD displays " " icon, then press key to set arrow directed channel as frequency reverse, repeat above operation to turn off frequency reverse. 1. When LCD displays "R" icon, it means current arrow directed channel open the frequency reverse function, the TX frequency and RX frequency is interchanged, if CTCSS/DCS signaling is set, it will also interchange. 2.
SHORTCUT OPERATIONS DTMF code Transmit and Enquiry 1. Press key, the LCD key, the LCD displays " " icon, then press displays DTMF data and group number (total 16groups) of current group. 2. Rotate channel switch to choose desired group and DTMF data, press PTT key to transmit selected DTMF signaling. If current group not edit DTMF data, LCD displays "EMPTY". 3.
SHORTCUT OPERATIONS Single-band Switching To reduce interference from the sub-band when only the main-band is needed. You can use the single-band switching function to turn off the sub-band quickly. will cycle LCD display to show Main + Sub-Band / Sub-Band Only / Main-Band Continuous pressing of Only. CTCSS/DCS encode and decode 1. Press key then press [PF2] to enter into setup. 2. Press [PF2] key to choose CTCSS, DCS or OFF, when choose DCS, press or negative code. 3.
FUNCTION MENU SETUP Menu 1-17 of this transceiver are channel operations. Channel operations temporarily changed the functions of current channel. When power off or channel has been changed, the relevant setup will be erased. Only under VFO mode, the channel operations will be saved until next change. Menu 18-50 are background operations (menu 20-29 are memory bank setup), it is valid for all channels, the relevant setup will be saved until next change.
FUNCTION MENU SETUP Menu LCD Display Function No. 1 T-CDC CTCSS/DCS Encode 2 R-CDC CTCSS/DCS Decode 3 RT-CDC CTCSS/DCS Encode/Decode Synchronous 4 2T-ENC 5 5T-ENC 6 2T-DEC 7 MSKENC 8 TONDEC 2 TO N E E n c o d e list 5 TO N E E n c o d e list 2 TO N E D e c o d e list MSK Encode list Optional signaling setup Options Description OFF 62.5HZ-254.1Hz+Self defined 000N-777I OFF 62.5HZ-254.1Hz+Self defined 000N-777I OFF 62.5HZ-254.
FUNCTION MENU SETUP Menu LCD Display Function No. 9 SIGNAL Squelch mode setup Options Description SQ When current channel received matching RF signals, transceiver can hear the talking from the other party. CTCSS/DCS When current channel received matching RF signals and matching CTCSS/DCS signaling, transceiver can hear the talking from the other party. TONE When current channel received matching RF signals and matching optional signaling, transceiver can hear the talking from the other party.
FUNCTION MENU SETUP Menu LCD Display Function No. 13 Options Description Turn on Talk Around function, current channel will transmit at RX frequency, if CTCSS/DCS signaling is set, it will interchange decoding CTCSS/DCS as encoding. Close Talk Around function. Note: It is available to setup in Programming software. RX:UHF, TX:VHF or RX:VHF, TX:UHF In channel name display mode, will display the edited channel name. Carrier wave lock, transmitting is prohibited when received matching carrier wave.
FUNCTION MENU SETUP Menu No.
FUNCTION MENU SETUP Menu LCD Display Function No. Voice Operated 35 VOX Transmission (VOX) Setup 36 VDELAY VOX Delay Setup 37 APO 38 DTMF 39 SQL 40 41 SCAN SPEED Automatic Power Off Setup DTMF Transmitting Time Squelch level Setup Scan Dwell Time Setup Scan Speed Setup Options Description OFF Turn off VOX function 1--10 Total 10 VOX levels for optional 0.5S-3S Total 27 levels for optional, each interval is 0.
FUNCTION MENU SETUP Menu LCD Display Function No. 43 Options Description ON/OFF Always on/off AUTO Backlight will automatic closed after a period LIGHT LCD Backlight 44 COLOR LCD Backlight Color BLUE/ORG/PUR Blue/Orange/Purple 45 ID Self ID inquiry 001/12345 LCD displays radio self ID, DTMF ID is 3 digits, 5TONE ID is 5 digits.
SENIOR FUNCTION OPERATIONS Display Mode Setup There are three kinds of display modes for optional. 1. Press [PF2] key to turn on radio, hold [PF2] key until transceiver emits beep. 2. Press / key to choose No.01 function item, it shows "DSP" on LCD. 3. Rotate channel switch to choose desired setup. FREQ: Frequency+Channel mode, transceiver displays current channel name + frequency, press key to switch into VFO mode.
SENIOR FUNCTION OPERATIONS OFF: No operations. FACT: Resume all items to factory default, including channel and background settings. INIT: Resume background settings to factory default, channel operations are keeping. 4. Press 5. Press key to exit current selection. key to confirm current selection. MSK Cloning Cable This feature will copy the programmed data and parameters from the master unit to slave units. It copies the parameters and memory program settings.
SENIOR FUNCTION OPERATIONS [Settings: Master side] 1. Press the [PF1] side key to Power on, the display shows "CLONE", the master unit enters into copy mode . 2. Press [PF1] key, the display appears "CLONE XX" XX stands for the data amount being cloned. 3. When the data transfer is completed, slave unit restarts, the master unit display appears "CLONE 04". 4. Master unit remain copy mode state to prepare for the next copy, if reboot the master means exit copy mode to return to normal mode.
MEMORY BANK 10 memory banks 0-9 are available, bank 0 includes all edited channels. Bank 1-9 can be assigned maximum 32 channels, a channel can be assigned to more groups by software or keypad. Assign channel to memory bank: 1. In Memory channel mode, choose a memory channel, press SMK key, bank number show in the channel number position as "-X" twinkling. 2. Turn Channel selector to choose desired memory bank, press SMK key, the memory channel will be assigned to the bank. 3.
MEMORY BANK Bank linking 1. In channel mode, press SMK key twice to enter into memory bank mode, press key to enter into function menu. / key to choose menu 19, LCD show " BALK". 2. Press ON: Turn on Bank linking. The following menus allow adding or deleting banks. Menu No.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION General VHF:144~146MHz UHF:430~440MHz FM:64~108MHz(RX) Frequency Range AM: 118~136M Hz(RX) SW: 2.3~29.99MHz(RX) LW: 0.52~1.71MHz(RX) Channel Capacity Channel Spacing Phase-locked Step Operation Voltage Battery Life Frequency Stability Operation Temperature Size Weight 199 channels 25KHz (wide band) 12.5KHz (narrow band) 0.1KHz 7.4V DC ±20% More than 12 Hours(2200mAh), by 5-5-90 working cycle ±2.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION Receiving Part Sensitivity (12dB SINAD) Adjacent Channel Selecitvity Intermodulation Spurious Rejection Hum & Noise Audio Distortion Audio Power Output Power Output Modulation Adjacent Channel Power Hum & Noise Spurious Emission Audio Distortion Wide band Narrow band ≤0.25μV ≤0.
ATTACHED CHART CTCSS Frequency Chart 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 62.5 67.0 69.3 71.9 74.4 77.0 79.7 82.5 85.4 88.5 91.5 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 94.8 97.4 100.0 103.5 107.2 110.9 114.8 118.8 123.0 127.3 131.8 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 136.5 141.3 146.2 151.4 156.7 159.8 162.2 165.5 167.9 171.3 173.8 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 37 177.3 179.9 183.5 186.2 189.9 192.8 196.6 199.5 203.5 206.5 210.7 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 218.1 225.7 229.1 233.6 241.8 250.3 254.
ATTACHED CHART 1024 groups DCS frequency chart 000 010 020 030 040 050 060 070 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 200 210 220 230 240 001 011 021 031 041 051 061 071 101 111 121 131 141 151 161 171 201 211 221 231 241 002 012 022 032 042 052 062 072 102 112 122 132 142 152 162 172 202 212 222 232 242 003 013 023 033 043 053 063 073 103 113 123 133 143 153 163 173 203 213 223 233 243 004 014 024 034 044 054 064 074 104 114 124 134 144 154 164 174 204 214 224 234 244 005 015 025 035 045 055 065 075 105 115
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