Uniden MHS450 owner manual Troubleshooting, Symptom Cause Remedy

Troubleshooting

If you missing parts or accesoories, call Parts & Service at 1-800- 554-3988.

In the event that the radio fails to perform, try the following remedies. If you have still problems, visit our customer support website at: www.uniden.com or call our customer care specialists at 1-800-586- 0409.

SYMPTOM	CAUSE	REMEDY
Won’t power On.	Low or Discharged	Recharge Lithium Ion battery.
	battery pack.	Replace battery.
		Use alkaline batteries
		temporarily.
When the PTT is	Bad microphone	Send in for repair.
pressed - Tx icon	element.
comes on and another
radio can hear a “click”
but no audio is heard.
While scanning, the	A source of noise is	Turn Squelch clockwise to
radio stops on a	nearby.	reduce noise so that scan
particular channel all of		function skips channel.
the time.
There is noise on the	An external noise is	Either turn off the offending
receiver that the	being generated by	device or contact that Mfg.
squelch will not	some device.	Regarding FCC part 15
eliminate.		“unintentional radiator”.
You have arranged to	You and the other	Make sure that you are both
communicate with	user are using	using the same Country
another VHF radio user	different Country	mode (USA, International, or
on a specific channel,	Modes.	Canadian). Several channels
and you can not hear		have the same numeric
them.		designation, but are either
		on different frequencies or
		the channels are used for
		different purpose. Channel
		16, the Distress, Safety, and
		Calling channel, is the same
		on all three bands.

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