General Information; Introduction - Standard Horizon HX210 Owner's Manual

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Congratulations on your purchase of the HX210! Whether this is your
first portable marine VHF transceiver, or if you have other STANDARD
HORIZON equipment, the STANDARD HORIZON organization is commit-
ted to ensuring your enjoyment of this high-performance transceiver, which
should provide you with many years of satisfying communications even in
the harshest of environments. STANDARD HORIZON technical support
personnel stand behind every product sold, and we invite you to contact us
should you require technical advice or assistance by calling (800)767-2450
Monday through Friday 8AM to 5PM Pacific time.
The HX210 is a Submersible Floating 6-Watt portable two-way marine trans-
ceiver. The transceiver has all allocated USA, International, or Canadian
channels. It has emergency channel 16 which can be immediately selected
from any channel by pressing the [16/S] key.
The HX210 includes the following features: Memory Scanning, Priority
Scanning, Dual and Triple watch, NOAA Weather Alert, easy-to-read large
LCD display, Battery Life display on the LCD, and a transmit Time-Out Timer
(TOT).
The HX210 transmitter provides a full 6 Watts of transmit power which is
also to selectable to 1 Watt to assist the user in ensuring maximum battery
life.
We appreciate your purchase of the HX210, and encourage you to read this
manual thoroughly, so as to learn and fully understand the capabilities of the
HX210.
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