Microphone Jack Antenna Connector S-Meter PA Jack EXT Jack Power 13.8V DC LCD Display Microphone Menu Setting Mode How to Operate the Transceiver Band Selection Trouble Shooting CE Declaration Safety Requirement E Mark Declaration Specification Restrictions on the use Freequency Table...
The transceiver should normally be mounted horizontally, but may be mounted vertically. The bracket supplied can be fitted above or below the case allowing the TCB-880 to be cradled by the bracket or suspended from it.
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Consider that this location of the transceiver should not interfere with the driver and passengers. Choose a spot where the microphone and all controls are easily accessible. 1) Put the mounting bracket on the proper location where you are going to install. 2) Drill holes and fix mounting bracket on the location.
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Installing An Antenna It is very important to select a good quality high efficiency 27MHz antenna. A poor quality antenna or one not designed for the 27MHz band will give very poor performance and could cause damage to the transceiver. 1) Place the antenna as high as possible.
4. Transceiver Controls and Functions 9 10 17 18 19 20 21 1) Channel Selector Turn right or left, and this allows you to select the channel one by one that you like to use. 2) Dual Watch Press momentarily this button, and this allows you to monitor two channels that you pre-selected and memorized.
To set the dual watch for the first time, press this button momentarily while you are on the current (primary) channel. The DW icon will be blinking. Select another channel that you like to use as sub-channel (se- condary channel) during the icon’s blinking using the channel selector or quick up/quick down selector.
4) Emergency Button Pressing this button will lead you to the emergency channel, "CH 9" and the EMG icon will be displayed. The channel selector, quick up/quick down selector and any memory channel selectors will not work. To return to the previous operation mode, momentarily press the emergency button again.
7) AM/FM and LCR Button When the transceiver is used in UK, UE, or EC freequency band modes this button activates or deactivates Last Channel Recall function. In all other modes (where national regulations permit this), this button allows user to switch between AM and FM modes by momentarily pressing this button.
11) Volume and Power On/Off Knob To switch on the transceiver turn this knob clockwise. After clicking sound the transceiver is switched on. The more you turn this knob clockwise, the bigger the audio sound grows. 12) Quick Up/Quick Down Selector Turn this selector clockwise to increase channel numbers by 10 steps.
18) S-Meter Connect an external S-Meter (This is not supplied.) to this port. 19) PA Jack Connect a loud speaker to use this transceiver as an audio amplifier. 20) EXT Jack Connecting a loud speaker to this port makes the built-in speaker turned off.
6. Microphone Up Button : Use this button to change the channels upward. Down Button : Use this button to change the channels downward. Lock Button : This locks the up button and down button of the microphone. Also, this lock works same as the lock button on the transceiver front panel.
Note : 1. Use Channel Selector to selecte the main menu features such as Beep Tone, Time-out Timer, Scan Receive Timer, Scan Delay Timer, Backlight Dimmer and Backlight Timer. 2. Use AM/FM button to enter value setting level. 3. Use Channel Selector to select or change any value that you like to have while the values are blinking.
9. Band Selection Pressing AM/FM button and Scan button at the same time, turn on the transceiver. Using the channel selector, select the band that you are going to select. The LCD display offers you the band information. The band chart for each area is as follows. Press AM/FM button while the band information is blinking or wait for 5 seconds to complete the selection and go to the transmit and receive mode.
10. Trouble Shooting If you experience problems with your TCB-880 transceiver, first check the power supply source. Poor connection of the power supply source can cause problems such as no transmission, no reception or poor reception, and weak or no sound. Ensure that the microphone and antenna are also well connected.
14. Specification Channel 40 (See the frequency band chart) Frequency Range 26.965 MHz ~ 27.405 MHz Operating mode F3E (FM), A3E (AM) Frequency Control PLL Synthersizer Frequency Tolerance 0.002% Operating Temperature Range -10 to + 55 C Microphone Plug-in Type Input Voltage 13.8V DC ±...
15. Restrictions on the use COUNTRY Settings Use restrictions and other comments BELGIUM 40 Ch - 4W FM - Individual licence is required EU F SWITSERLAND 40 Ch - 1W AM - Individual licence is required DENMARK,NORWAY 40 Ch - 4W FM - Free use LUXEMBOURG FINLAND,PORTUGAL 40 Ch - 4W FM - Free use...