Display-Series Two-Way Base Station Owner's Manual RuGGED, Professional Two-way BASE Radios Always there...Always ready...
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TABLE OF CONTENT DESCRIPTION PAGE DESCRIPTION PAGE NOAA WEATHER RADIO FEATURE ACCESSORIES How to Select Your Local NOAA Weather Frequency .................................. 7 DESCRIPTION PAGE SPECIAL APPLICATION FIG-5: Selecting Your Local NOAA Weather Frequency............................... 8 How To Field Program 2-Tone Encode Codes for GateGuard Applications, go to www.ritron.com/gg_04.pdf ............................................15 FIG-6: NOAA Frequencies..................................
INTRODUCTION THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING RITRON Congratulations on your purchase of the "Display Series" base station. Your new radio is the result of Ritron's more than 30 years history of designing, manufacturing, and supplying reliable, professional wireless communication products. Ritron wireless products will improve the operation, safety, and profitability of any organization by providing instant voice communications between employees throughout the workplace.
CONTROL & OPERATION 1 CHANNEL DISPLAY The channel display will indicate the current operating channel. When the Scan Channel is selected the display will rapidly flash the channels being scanned, and will stop when a channel is received. The channel display also indicates the volume level between 0-9 whenever a volume control is pressed. 2 CHANNEL SELECTOR Press the Channel Selector button and the radio will advance the channel.
OPERATION As long as the Volume Up button is held down the volume will increase and the display will indicate the volume level as a number between 0 and 9. When the Volume Down button is held down the volume will decrease and the display will indicate the volume level as a number between 9 and 0. FIG-2: VOLUME LEVEL INDICATOR ON-OFF / VOLUME ADJUST To turn on the radio - press the On/Volume Up button. The radio will sound the Channel Beep.
OPERATION 3. If the base station emits a triple beep, then you are in 2-tone Decode. You will only hear broadcasts that first send your two unique paging tones. If you are unable to set the base station, you have selected a channel that is not programmed for 2-tone Decode. If you are unable to activate Carrier squelch - the base station has been programmed for Monitor Lockout. See your Ritron dealer or contact Ritron directly to disable this option.
OPERATION CHANNEL SCAN OPERATION Last Channel Scanned Alert Tone With Priority Scan enabled: Channel scanning allows you to listen to broadcasts on your radio channels. The JBS/PBS "Display-Series" base station will scan all channels programmed into the radio except the NOAA Weather Channel. When changing channels with the Channel Selector button, an alert tone will sound to indicate the last channel that received a message when the radio was scanning.
OPERATION When the base station decodes an incoming 2-Tone signal it will emit a "ring" tone similar to a telephone and the display will show a "C" to indicate that a call has been received. You can now proceed with normal twoway communication until the 2-tone Decode feature has been reset. The "ring" tone will sound every time a 2-tone signal is decoded. The display will show a "C" to indicate that a 2-tone call has been received.
OPERATION DTMF ANI ON TRANSMIT This feature must be PC Programmed by your Ritron dealer. Pressing the "Z" button causes the radio to transmit a unique DTMF ANI string that can be programmed seperately for each channel. The DTMF string will be heard on the speaker, and if you continue to hold the "Z" button down, the transmitter will remain active and voice communications will be possible after the DTMF ANI string has been sent.
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FEATURE NOAA WEATHER FEATURE 1. PRESS & HOLD UNTIL THE "RADIO OFF" TONES ARE HEARD, THEN RELEASE. 3. PRESS & RELEASE -THE RADIO WILL START BEEPING. After you have selected a NOAA weather frequency on your VHF model base station, an extra channel is automatically created exclusively for listening to National Weather Service broadcasts. Repeatedly pressing the Channel button advances through your base station talk channels.
RADIO PROGRAMMING HOW TO READOUT FIELD PROGRAMMABLE FREQUENCY & TONE CODES IMPORTANT In our example channel 3 of a UHF radio is programmed to operate on the "Brown Dot" frequency of 464.500 MHz (Frequency code "04") with 100.0 Hz tone (Tone code "12"). To talk to other users in your group, all radios must be set to the same frequency and Interference Eliminator codes. 3. PRESS & RELEASE -THE RADIO WILL START BEEPING RAPIDLY. 2. Release the Push-to-talk button after the beeping has stopped.
RADIO PROGRAMMING To match other radios, the owner can select Frequency and Tone Codes from Tables 1, 2, and 3 on pages 11 and 12. 04 1. Refer to Table 1 on page 11 to determine the two digit frequency code and write it down. 12 2. Refer to Table 2 on page 12 to determine the two digit tone code for 100.0 Hz and write it down. RADIO IDENTIFICATION 3. Place the radio into Program/ Readout Mode by following the instructions in FIG-7 on page 9.
RADIO PROGRAMMING VHF MURS ** Code MHz No. 01 02 19 20 21 22 23 00 154.6000 Green Dot 154.5700 Blue Dot 151.8200 MURS 151.8800 MURS 151.9400 MURS 154.6000 MURS/Green 154.5700 MURS/Blue DELETE Code* VHF Business Band Code MHz No. 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 24 25 26 00 Color Dot Color Dot 151.6250 Red Dot 151.9550 Purple Dot 151.9250 154.5400 154.5150 154.6550 151.6850 151.7150 151.7750 151.8050 151.8350 151.8950 154.4900 151.6550 151.7450 151.
RADIO PROGRAMMING Table 2: INTERFERENCE ELIMINATOR PROGRAMMABLE QC TONE Codes Code No. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 00 Hz 67.0 71.9 74.4 77.0 79.7 82.5 85.4 88.5 91.5 94.8 97.4 100.0 103.5 107.2 110.9 114.8 118.8 Delete Code No. Hz Code No. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 123.0 127.3 131.8 136.5 141.3 146.2 151.4 156.7 162.2 167.9 173.8 179.9 186.2 192.8 203.5 210.7 218.1 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 Hz 225.7 233.6 241.8 250.3 69.
PROGRAMMING Courtesy Beep sounds a short tone at the end of each received transmission to indicate that the channel is clear and you may transmit. Transmit Clear To Talk Beep Any channel can be set to sound a short tone after the PTT has been pressed to indicate that the base station is ready for you to begin talking. Disable Field Programming to allow only PC programming.
TROUBLESHOOTING CHART notes 1. • Reception can often be improved if you relocate by a short distance. This effect is more noticeable inside buildings. • The range of the "Display Series" base radio is approximately two miles, line-of-sight. 2. If your radio does not detect calls from other radios on the channel, turn off Quiet Call by pressing and holding both volume buttons at the same time—a double beep indicates Quiet Call is off. 3.
SPECIAL APPLICATION HOW TO Field Program 2-TONE ENCODE CODES For special applications, it is possible to use your Ritron portable radio or base station for remote control applications; such as opening or closing a gate remotely (see Ritron GateGuard at www.ritron.com/gg_04.pdf). This application requires you to program the radio(s) that will be sending the command for 2-Tone Encode operation. And radio(s) that will be receiving the command (e.g. Ritron Callbox) for 2-Tone Decode operation.
FCC & IC LICENSE REQUIRED FCC Regulations Licensing The FCC requires the owners of the radios to obtain a station license before using them. The station licensee is responsible for ensuring that transmitter power, frequency and deviation are within the limits specified by the station license. The station licensee is also responsible for proper operation and maintenance of the radio equipment. This includes checking the transmitter frequency and deviation periodically, using appropriate methods.
RITRON, INC. LIMITED WARRANTY What This Warranty Covers RITRON, INC. ("RITRON") provides the following warranty against defects in materials and/or workmanship in RITRON Radios and Accessories under normal use and service during the applicable warranty period (as stated below). "Accessories" means antennas, holsters, chargers, earphones, speaker/microphones and items contained in the programming and programming/service kits.
