Operating Your Radio; Getting Started - Cobra MR F55 Owner's Manual

Getting Started

Operating Your Radio

Intro Operation Customer
Assistance
Getting Started
Refer to the foldout on the front cover of this manual to identify the various
controls and indicators on your radio.
Customer
Installation
Throughout this manual you will be instructed to press or to press and hold
Assistance
buttons on the transceiver or on the microphone. Press means a momentary
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press, then release; press and hold means to hold the button.
Tones And Alarms
When your CobraMarine ™ VHF radio is On, you can expect to hear the following
Notice Caution
tones and alarms. The volume of these sounds is controlled by the circuitry in the
radio and is not affected by the volume set with the On-Off Power/Volume knob.
Confirmation Tone
Single high-pitched beep confirms all button presses except the Talk button.
It can be turned On or Off. See set-up routines on page 40.
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Error Tone
Single low-pitched beep indicates an invalid button press.
DSC Distress Alarm
Intro Operation Customer Warranty
Loud, continuous, low-pitched series of closely spaced, three (3)
Assistance
beep groups. Press any button to turn it Off. This alarm sounds for:
Distress call send, receive, and acknowledgement
Customer
Distress relay call received
Installation
Assistance
All ships call received
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NOTE
This alarm sounds only for DSC distress calls on Channel 70.
Notice Caution Warning
It does not sound for voice calls on Channel 16 — you still
must listen for those.
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Warranty
Warning
Operating Your Radio
Intro Operation
DSC Geographical Alarm
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Loud, continuous, medium-pitched, high-low tones (warble) —
sounds when a geographical call is received. Press any button to turn it Off.
DSC Position Request Alarm
Installation
Medium-loud, continuous, low-pitched series of closely spaced, four (4) beeps
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[three (3) short – one (1) long] groups — sounds when a position request call
is received. Press any button to turn it Off.
DSC Individual Alarm
Medium-loud, continuous, medium-pitched, two (2) beep groups — Notice
sounds when an individual call is received. Press any button to turn it Off.
Weather Alarm
Medium-loud, continuous, medium-pitched series of one-half (
spaced one-half (
and NOAA sends a 1050 Hz weather alert tone on the selected weather channel.
Press any button to turn it Off.
Power On-Off
Transceiver power can be turned On or Off by the On-Off Power/Volume
knob on the transceiver.
On-Off Power/
Volume Knob
Getting Started
Customer Warranty
Assistance
Customer
Assistance
Caution Warning
1 ⁄ ) second apart — sounds when weather alert is turned On
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To Turn Your Radio On Or Off:
1. Turn the On-Off Power/Volume knob on the
transceiver until you hear and feel a click.
When the radio is powered On, the confirmation tone
will sound.
The radio will return to the settings in effect when it was
last powered Off, the LCD will show the corresponding
information, and all controls will be operative. The radio
will then be in Standby mode.
Nothing comes close to a Cobra
1 ⁄ ) second beeps
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