For Your Safety - Tait TM9300 User Manual

For your safety

Radio frequency exposure information
8 For your safety
Before using your radio, please read the following
important safety and compliance information.
For your own safety and to ensure you comply with the
radio frequency (RF) exposure guidelines of the United
States Federal Communication Commission's (FCC),
Industry Canada, and those from other administrations,
please read the following information before using this
radio.
Using this radio
You should use this radio only for work-related purposes
(it is not authorized for any other use) and if you are fully
aware of, and can exercise control over, your exposure to
RF energy. To prevent exceeding FCC RF exposure
limits, you must control the amount and duration of RF
that you and other people are exposed to.
It is also important that you:
Do not remove the RF Exposure label from the radio.
■
Ensure this RF exposure information accompanies
■
the radio when it is transferred to other users.
Do not use the radio if you do not adhere to the guide-
■
lines on controlling your exposure to RF.
Controlling your exposure to RF energy
Warning RF exposure hazard!
To comply with FCC and Industry Canada RF exposure
limits, mount the antenna at a location such that no person
or persons can come closer than 35 inches (0.9 m) to the
antenna:
For radios with a transmit power >25 W:
VHF radios must be installed using an antenna mounted
centrally on the vehicle roof, with a gain of 2.15 dBi or
5.15 dBi.
UHF and 800 MHz radios must be installed using an