Operation

Mode Functions

 

Mode/Lock Button

The current sensitivity level is displayed

 

with letters “LE” and a Number 01

 

through 05, with Number 05 being the

 

most sensitive level and Number 01

 

being the least sensitive level.

 

 

 

 

Introduction

Operation

Customer Assistance

Warranty

6. Choose one of the following:

a. Press the Channel Up or Channel Down button to select

a CTCSS privacy code (01 through 38) for the channel.

b. Press the Enter/Hi•Low button to switch from CTCSS to

DCS. The DCS icon and privacy code numbers will flash on

VOXSensitivity Level

Channel Buttons

2.Press the Channel Up or Channel Down button to change the setting.

3.Choose one of the following:

a.Press the Mode/Lock button to enter the selected setting and proceed to other functions.

b.Press the Enter/Hi•Low button to enter the selected setting and return to Standby mode.

the display. The Channel Up or Channel Down button can

then be used to select a DCS privacy code (01 through 83)

for the channel.

If “OFF” flashes in place of the privacy code numbers, a privacy code is already set in the opposite (CTCSS or DCS) system. Press the Channel Up or Channel Down button to cancel the opposite code and select a privacy code from the active system for the selected channel.

7. Choose one of the following:

10 Memory Locations

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Your microTALK radio has 10 Memory Locations for storing your most frequently used channels and channel/privacy code combinations. These Memory Locations can be selected individually or can be scanned. (See page 18 for memory location scan.)

a. Press the Enter/Hi•Low button to enter the channel/privacy

code in the selected memory location. Radio then proceeds

to next memory location, which will blink.

b. Press the Mode/Lock button to enter the channel/privacy

code in the selected memory location and proceed to other

Mode/Lock Button

Memory Icon

To program a memory location:

1.Press the Mode/Lock button until the Memory icon and the Memory Location flash on the display.

2.Press the Channel Up or Channel Down button to select the memory location (0 through 9).

functions on the channel/privacy code displayed before you

entered mode functions.

c. Press the Talk button to enter the channel/privacy code

in the selected memory location and exit mode functions.

Upon release of the Talk button, the radio will enter

Standby mode on the channel/privacy code just entered.

Channel Buttons

Enter/Hi-Low Button

If a location has been programmed before, its associated channel/privacy code will be shown on the display.

3.Press the Enter/Hi•Low button to enter

a new memory location or edit an already programmed memory location. The channel numbers will flash on the display.

4.Press the Channel Up or Channel Down button to select a channel (1 through 22).

5.Press the Enter/Hi•Low button. The CTCSS icon and privacy code numbers will flash on the display.

Mode/Lock Button

Memory Icon

To recall a stored memory channel location:

1.Press the Mode/Lock button until the Memory icon and the memory location number flash on the display.

2.Press the Channel Up or Channel Down button to select a memory location

(0 through 9).

If a location has been programmed before, its associated channel/privacy code will be shown on the display.

 

 

 

 

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Cobra Electronics CXT450 Memory Locations, To program a memory location, To recall a stored memory channel location
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CXT450 specifications

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