Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product VX-2200 Vertex Standard
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VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL VERTEX STANDARD CO., LTD. 4-8-8 Nakameguro, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo 153-8644, Japan VERTEX STANDARD US Headquarters 10900 Walker Street, Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. YAESU EUROPE B.V. P.O. Box 75525, 1118 ZN Schiphol, The Netherlands YAESU UK LTD.
Unsafe Radiation Distance Congratulations! Y ou now have at your fingertips a valuable communications tool: a VER TEX ST AN- DARD two-way radio! Rugged, reliable and easy to use, your VER TEX ST ANDARD radio will keep you in constant touch with your colleagues for years to come, with negligible maintenance downtime.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 1 I NTRODUCTION The VX-2200 Series are full-featured FM transceivers designed for flexible mobile and base station business communications in the VHF or UHF Land Mobile bands.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 2 C ONTROLS & C ONNECT ORS Fr ont Panel Important! - All buttons located on the Front Panel are Programmable Function (PF) Buttons, configured according to your network requirements and programmed by your VER TEX ST ANDARD dealer .
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 3 LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) The display includes a 8-character alpha-numeric section showing Channel name tags/identity information and error messages, and an upper icon row displaying feature status (see below).
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 4 Rear Panel C ONTROLS & C ONNECT ORS 13.6V DC Cable Pigtail with Connector The supplied DC power cable must be connected to this 2-pin connector . Use only the supplied fused cable, extended if necessary , for power connection.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 5 B ASIC O PERA TION OF THE T RANSCEIVER Important! - Before turning on the radio the first time, confirm that the power con- nections have been made correctly and that a proper antenna is connected to the antenna jack.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 6 Automatic T ime-Out Timer If the selected channel has been programmed for automatic time-out, you must limit the length of each transmission.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 7 A DV ANCED O PERA TION Pr ogrammable Function (PF) Buttons The VX-2200 Series includes seven Programmable Function ( PF ) Buttons. The PF button functions can be customized, via programming by your VER TEX ST AN- DARD dealer , to meet your communications/network requirements.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 8 Description of Operating Functions M ONITOR ( MONI ) Press the assigned programmable key to cancel CTCSS- and DCS-controlled squelch; the TX/BUSY indicator will glow green. Press and hold in this button for 1.5 sec- onds to hear background noise (unmute the audio); the TX/BUSY indicator will blink green.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 9 A DV ANCED O PERA TION programmable key for one second to delete the Current Memory channel from the Scanning. When you delete a Group or channel, “ - SCAN Skip - ” will appear on the LCD for one second after pressing the assigned programmable key .
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 10 D UAL W A TCH ( DW ) The Dual W atch feature is similar to the SCAN feature, except that only two channels are monitored: The current operating channel; and The Priority channel. T o activate Dual W atch: Press (or press and hold) the assigned programmable key .
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 11 During “Follow-Me” scanning (after you have pressed the key), you can set up the “Dual W atch” feature by pressing (or press and holding) the Channel Up/Down key to another channel.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 12 CALL/RESET This feature, if enabled, allows the user to change the 3-digit Page Call code, used to call other similarly-equipped stations. Press (or press and hold) the assigned pro- grammable key , followed by the three digits representing the Page Call code of the station you wish to call.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 13 P UBLIC A DDRESS Press (or press and hold) the assigned programmable key to use the transceiver as a P A amplifier . When you enable this function, a tone sounds and “ PA ” will appear on the display . The public address can be used even while scanning and receiving a call.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 14 HA (H ORN A LER T ) When the Horn Alert feature is enabled, a tone will sound from the speaker if you receive a call (with appropriate DTMF signaling) from the base station. Press (or press and hold) the assigned programmable key to disable the Horn feature.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 15 U SER S ET M ODE The VX-2200 Series includes a “User Set” (Menu) Mode which allows the user to define or configure various settings, such as Squelch, Display contrast, etc. T o acti- vate the “User Set” (Menu) Mode: Press the programmable key assigned to the “ SET ” function.
VX-2200 S ERIES O PERA TING M ANUAL 16 O PTIONAL A CCESSORIES MH-67 A8J Standard Microphone MH-25 A8J Standard Microphone MH-64 A8J 16 Keypad Microphone MD-1 1 A8J Desktop Microphone MLS-100 External Speaker (12 W Peak Power) MLS-200 External Speaker (15 W Peak Power) FP-1023A External Power Supply (13.
Part 15.21: Changes or modifications to this device not expressly ap- proved by V ertex S tandard could void the user’s authorization to oper- ate this device.
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