GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The VX-177is a compact, high-performance submersible FM hand-held providing up to five watts of RF power and wealth of convenient features for the 430 MHz amateur band.
New and exciting features of the VX-177are the Emergency Automatic ID (EAI) function, that will automatically cause your VX-177to transmit your callsign and engage your rig’s microphone, even if you are disabled and unable to press the PTT switch; Enhanced Pag- ing and Code Squelch (EPCS), that allows you to page a particular station and only receive calls from that station, if desired; and a security Password feature, that will allow you to turn on and operate your transceiver only after you enter your Password.
Additional features include a convenient access key for Vertex Standard’s WIRES™ (Wide- coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System), a transmit Time-Out Timer (TOT), Automatic Power-Off (APO), Automatic Repeater Shift (ARS), Vertex Standard’s exclu- sive ARTS™ (Auto-Range Transponder System) which “beeps” the user when you move out of communications range with another ARTS™ equipped station, plus provision for reduction of the TX deviation in areas of high channel congestion. And an RF squelch circuit allows the owner to set the squelch to open at a programmable setting of the S- Meter, thus reducing guesswork in setting the squelch threshold.
We appreciate your purchase of the VX-177, and encourage you to read this manual thor- oughly, so as to learn about the many exciting features of your exciting new Vertex Stan- dard hand-held transceiver!
: IPX-7 Specification for submersibility: 3 ft. for 30 minutes