User Manual

Efficient Use

For optimum performance, please make sure that there is no metal

surrounding your Scanning Companion.

Driving

RF energy may affect some electronic systems in motor vehicles,

such as car stereo, safety equipment, etc. Check with your vehicle

manufacturer to be sure that Scanning Companion will not affect the

vehicle’s electronics.

Aircraft

• Turn off Scanning Companion before boarding any aircraft.

• To prevent interference with communications systems, you must

not use Scanning Companion while the plane is in the air.

• Do not use it on the ground without permission from the crew.

Radio Frequency Exposure

Scanning Companion contains a radio transmitter and receiver.

When in operation, it communicates with the Cordless Hand Scanner

or Cordless Ring Scanner by receiving and transmitting radio

frequency (RF) magnetic fields in the frequency range 2400 to 2500

MHz. The maximum output power of the radio transmitter is 16 dBm.

Scanning Companion is designed to be in compliance with the RF

exposure limits set by national authorities and international health

agencies

when installed or used separately from other antennas or

radio transmitters.

Examples of RF exposure standards and guidelines:

ICNIRP, “Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and

electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz)”, International Commission on Non-

Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), Health Physics, vol. 74, pp 494-533, April

1998.

99/519/EC, EU Council Recommendation on the limitation of exposure to the

general public to electromagnetic fields 0 Hz – 300 GHz, Official Journal of the

European Communities, July 12, 1999.

ANSI/IEEE C95.1-1992, “Safety levels with respect to human exposure to radio

frequency electromagnetic fields, 3 kHz to 300 GHz”, The Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York, 1991.

FCC Report and Order, ET Docket 93-62, FCC 96-326, Federal Communications

Commission (FCC), August 1996.

Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation Human Exposure) Standard 1999,

Australian Communications Authority (ACA), May 1999.