Operating instructions

Page 1VX-1700 OPERATING MANUAL
GENERAL
The Vertex Standard VX-1700 is a low-cost, integrated
HF communications transceiver designed for the world-
wide Marine, Land Mobile, and Government markets.
The Vertex Standard VX-1700 provides continuous re-
ceiver coverage from 30 kHz to 29.99999 MHz, and trans-
mitter coverage as appropriate for the user’s application.
Operating modes provided include J2B (USB or LSB),
J3E (USB or LSB), A1A, A3E, and H3E (only on 2182
kHz in the Marine version), making the VX-1700 ideal
for a wide variety of voice, telegraphy, and many data com-
munication applications.
Advanced features of the Vertex Standard VX-1700 in-
clude 200 memory channels (arranged in five banks), key-
board frequency entry with frequency resolution to 10 Hz
(100 Hz in Memory mode), and Alpha-Numeric labeling
of Memory channels. Ease in programming fleet systems
is provided. And the Selcall feature allows paging of a
single transceiver or groups of transceivers by a dispatch
center.
Available options include the FP-1030A AC Power Sup-
ply, FC-30 Automatic External Antenna Tuner (for 50
Ohm unbalanced antenna feedlines), FC-40 Automatic
External Antenna Tuner (for an end-fed random-length wire
or long whip antenna), YA-30 Broadband Dipole Antenna,
YA-007FG Mobile Antenna, MD-100A8X & MD-12A8J
Desktop Microphone, MLS-100 External Speaker, and the
ALE-1 Automatic Link Establishment Unit which automati-
cally selects the channel with the best LQA (Link Quality
Analysis) score from the programmed channels.
This manual includes installation, configuration, interfac-
ing, and operating instructions for the Vertex Standard VX-
1700. We encourage you to read this manual thoroughly
before installing or operating this transceiver.