Radio Shack 21-1850 Owner's Manual

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OWNER'S MANUAL

FRS RADIO

21-1850

INTRODUCTION

Your Radio Shack remote control FRS Radio is a mobile type radio. Magnet –mounted antenna

RF base can be mounted on the top of the car. It provides the best antenna efficiency than any

hand-held type FRS transceiver. The remote control unit is linked with a cable and provides an

easy to use in a comfortable environment.

You can start using your FRS radio immediately without any license required! Your radio comes

with 14 FRS channels and you can talk with another person who has a FRS radio and is on the

same channel and privacy code that you are using.

Your remote unit offers a multifunctional liquid crystal display with backlight, auto-squelch which

eliminates noise between transmission, built-in modulation limiter circuit which automatically

adjust the radio for a wide variety of voice levels to ensure a clear transmission, memory

retention and keypad lock.

The remote unit comes with a multifunctional backlight display. By pressing any button except the

CALL and PTT, the backlight will illuminate for 7 seconds. The liquid crystal display has been

enlarged to show all of the operating modes.

1. Shows the selected channel number.

2. Shows the selected quiet code number.

3. "QUIET": Displayed when the QUIET privacy mode is enabled.

4. "

" : Displays when your radio is transmitting or the CALL button is pressed.

5. "BUSY": Displays when a call is being received.

6. "

": Displays when the keypad lock has been activated.

Table of Contents

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Page 1 21-1850 INTRODUCTION Your Radio Shack remote control FRS Radio is a mobile type radio. Magnet –mounted antenna RF base can be mounted on the top of the car. It provides the best antenna efficiency than any hand-held type FRS transceiver. The remote control unit is linked with a cable and provides an easy to use in a comfortable environment.
Page 2 7. “SCAN”: Displays when the transceiver scans through all the channels. B. FUNCTION AND LOCATION OF THE CONTROLS 1. “ON/OFF” Volume Control In “OFF” position, your transceiver is off. Rotate this control clockwise to turn on your radio and adjust the volume, until you get a comfortable listening level. 2.
Page 3 original channel. 4. CH ∇ ∇ ∇ ∇ Button Press CH∇ ∇ ∇ ∇ to move one channel down. Release when you reach the desired channel. 5. QUIET Button Press QUIET button to enable or disable the QUIET privacy mode operation. To determine QUIET privacy code setting, press and hold QUIET button for 2 seconds until QUIET icon is displayed and the quiet code indicator flashes.
Page 4 3. Select the desired channel and/or QUIET privacy code. 4. Press Push-To-Talk button to transmit or CALL button to cause a page. 5. To receive, simply release Push-To-Talk button. Note : You can only communicate with another radio that is using the same channel and/or the same QUIET privacy code as your radio.