User manual COBRA MRF55

[. . . ] Introduction Intro Our Thanks To You Operation Customer Assistance Warranty Thank you for purchasing a CobraMarineTM VHF radio. Properly used, this Cobra® product will give you many years of reliable service. Installation How Your CobraMarineTM VHF Radio Works Assistance Customer Owner's Manual This radio is a VHF transceiver for fixed mounting on your boat. It gives you 2-way Secondary Icons vessel-to-vessel and vessel-to-shore station communications, primarily for safety and secondarily for navigation and operational purposes. With it, you can call for help, get information from other boaters, talk to lock or bridge tenders, and make radiotelephone calls to anywhere in Caution the world through a marine operator. [. . . ] The radio will return to Standby mode each time the button is released. Time Offset All VHF, DSC, and GPS activities use a 24-hour clock and Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) which was formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Time Offset uses your connected GPS to gather time inputs. For time inputs to be converted to local time, you need to enter the hour offset of your local time zone from Greenwich. (See world city time zone chart on page 24. ) Main Icons Time Offset Intro Set Time Secondary Icons To Change The Time Offset: 1. Enter the Settings menu and scroll to TIME OFFST (time offset) with the Up/Down buttons. Press the Call/Set button and observe the current setting. Warranty Operation Customer Assistance 3. Use the Up/Down buttons to change to the setting for your local time zone. Press the Call/Set button to select the setting. Use Assistance the Up/Down buttons to scroll to EXIT. Press the Call/Set button to return to the Settings menu. NOTE If you leave the time offset at zero, the LCD will show Caution Warning the time as UTC. If you enter the hour offset for your time zone, the LCD will show the local time. In either event, DSC messages will always be based on UTC. Notice 40 English Nothing comes close to a Cobra® 41 Operating Your Radio Intro Operation Voice Transmission Customer Assistance Warranty Operating Your Radio Intro Operation Voice Transmission Customer Warranty Voice Transmission · Assistance Transmit Power Output Transmit mode gives you the ability to communicate with safety services, other vessels, and shore stations. When you use this capability, be sure to follow the Customer Installation procedures and to observe the courtesies that govern its use so everyone benefits. Assistance (The tables on pages 14 through 23 will help you select the proper channels. ) Secondary Icons Before pressing the Talk button to transmit a message, you should select the appropriate channel and transmit power output. Your radio can Transmit selectively at one (1) or 25 watts of power. Cobra® suggests you maintain the low power setting for short-range communications Customer and to avoid overpowering nearby stations with your signal. Use the high power Installation Assistance setting for long-range communications or when you do not receive a response Secondary Icons sent at one (1) watt. to a signal High/Low Power Button Channels Caution Notice You can transmit voice messages onWarning VHF Channels. Refer to the VHF marine most channel assignments on pages 14 through 23 to select a channel according to the type of message you are going to send. Notice High/Low Power Up/Down Buttons Channel 16/9 Buttons To Change The Channel You Can Choose From One (1) Of The Following: a. This will take you to the next higher or lower VHF channel. [. . . ] You may be asked to send your radio to the Cobra® factory. It will be necessary to furnish the following to have the product serviced and returned: Caution Warning Notice 1. For warranty repair include some form of proof-of-purchase, such as a mechanical reproduction or carbon of a sales receipt. If you send the original receipt, it cannot be returned. [. . . ]