FCC ID: K6610354740 VX-4200 SERIES OPERATING MANUAL P1 P2 A P3 P4 VERTEX STANDARD CO., LTD. 4-8-8 Nakameguro, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo 153-8644, Japan VERTEX STANDARD US Headquarters 10900 Walker Street, Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. International Division 8350 N.W. 52nd Terrace, Suite 201, Miami, FL 33166, U.S.A. YAESU EUROPE B.V. P.O. Box 75525, 1118 ZN Schiphol, The Netherlands YAESU UK LTD. Unit 12, Sun Valley Business Park, Winnall Close Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 0LB, U.K. VERTEX STANDARD HK LTD.
FCC ID: K6610354740 Congratulations! You now have at your fingertips a valuable communications tool: a VERTEX STANDARD two-way radio! Rugged, reliable and easy to use, your VERTEX STANDARD radio will keep you in constant touch with your colleagues for years to come, with negligible maintenance downtime. Please take a few minutes to read this manual carefully. The information presented here will allow you to derive maximum performance from your radio, in case questions arise later on.
FCC ID: K6610354740 INTRODUCTION P1 P2 A P3 P4 The VX-4200 Series are full-featured FM transceiver designed for flexible mobile and base station business communications in the VHF or UHF Land Mobile bands. These transceiver are designed for reliable business communications in a wide variety of applications with a wide range of operating capability provided by their leading-edge design. The 501-channel memories can each be programmed with a 12-character channel name.
FCC ID: K6610354740 CONTROLS & CONNECTORS Front Panel Important! - All buttons located on the Front Panel are Programmable Function (PF) Buttons, configured according to your network requirements and programmed by your VERTEX STANDARD dealer. The instructions below describe a typicallyconfigured radio. • ‰ P1 ‚ ƒ P2 ˆ ‡ A P3 P4 „ … † • VOL Knob Turn this control clockwise to increase the volume. ‚ Microphone Jack Connect the microphone plug to this jack.
FCC ID: K6610354740 CONTROLS & CONNECTORS † (POWER) Button Press and hold in this button for 2 seconds to toggle the transceiver’s power “on” and “off.” ‡ BUSY/TX Indicator Indicates transceiver’s Transmit/Receive Status Steady Red: Transmitting in progress Steady Green: Signaling Off Blinking Green: Busy Channel/Squelch Off ˆ [q]/[p] Buttons (Programmable Function Buttons) Pressing either button changes the current channel (and displayed channel number or name).
FCC ID: K6610354740 CONTROLS & CONNECTORS Rear Panel • ‚ ƒ „ • 13.6V DC Cable Pigtail with Connector The supplied DC power cable must be connected to this 2-pin connector. Use only the supplied fused cable, extended if necessary, for power connection. ‚ Antenna Socket The 50-Ohm coaxial feedline to the antenna must be connected here, using a type-M (PL-259) plug.
FCC ID: K6610354740 BASIC OPERATION OF THE TRANSCEIVER Important! - Before turning on the radio the first time, confirm that the power connections have been made correctly and that a proper antenna is connected to the antenna jack. Switching Power ON/OFF (POWER) button for 2 seconds to turn the radio on. r Press and hold in the The display will become illuminated. r Press the [q ]/[p ] button to choose the desired operating channel. A channel name will appear on the display.
FCC ID: K6610354740 BASIC OPERATION OF THE TRANSCEIVER Automatic Time-Out Timer If the selected channel has been programmed for automatic time-out, you must limit the length of each transmission. While transmitting, a beep will sound 10 seconds before time-out. Another beep will sound just before the deadline; the red “TX” indicator will disappear and transmission will cease soon thereafter.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION Programmable Function (PF) Buttons The VX-4200 Series includes seven Programmable Function (PF) Buttons. The PF button functions can be customized, via programming by your VERTEX STANDARD dealer, to meet your communications/network requirements. Some features may require the purchase and installation of optional internal accessories. The possible PF button programming features are illustrated below, and these functions are explained on the pages to follow.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION Description of Operating Functions MONITOR (MONI) Press the assigned programmable key to cancel CTCSS- and DCS-controlled squelch; the BUSY/TX indicator will glow green. Press and hold in this button for 1.5 seconds to hear background noise (unmute the audio); the BUSY/TX indicator will blink green. SQUELCH (SQL) You can manually adjust the squelch level using this function: r Press the assigned programmable key.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION CHANNEL SCAN (SCAN) The Scanning feature is used to monitor multiple channels programmed into the transceiver. While scanning, the transceiver will check each channel for the presence of a signal, and will stop on a channel if a signal is present. To activate scanning: r Press the assigned programmable key to activate scanning.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION FOLLOW-ME SCAN “Follow-Me” Scan feature checks a User-assigned Priority Channel regularly as you scan the other channels. Thus, if only Channels 1, 3, and 5 (of the 8 available channels) are designated for “Scanning,” the user may nonetheless assign Channel 2 as the “User-assigned” Priority Channel via the “Follow-Me” feature.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION TALK AROUND (TA) Press the assigned programmable key to activate the Talk Around feature when you are operating on duplex channel systems (separate receive and transmit frequencies, utilizing a “repeater” station). The Talk Around feature allows you to bypass the repeater station and talk directly to a station that is nearby. This feature has no effect when you are operating on “simplex” channels, where the receive and transmit frequencies are already the same.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION CODE UP/DOWN Press the assigned programmable key to select a 5-Tone encode code from pre-defined encode list. CODE SET Press the assigned programmable key to change the 5-Tone encodeing digit. To change the tones, select the desired digit using the [P1]/[P2] keys, then change the number using the [q]/[p] keys. STATUS UP/DOWN Press the assigned programmable key to select a 5-Tone status code from the predefined status list.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION HORN ALERT Press the assigned programmable key to turn the Horn Alert function “ON” or “OFF.” If you receive a call from the base station with 2-Tone, 5-Tone or DTMF signaling, horn alert will be activated and your vehicles horn will sound. When you turn the Horn Alert “ON,” a tone will sound and the “ will appear on the display. ” icon appears PUBLIC ADDRESS Press the assigned programmable key to use the transceiver as a PA amplifier.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION AF MIN VR Press the assigned programmable key to reduce the audio output to the (lower) level programmed by your Dealer. SET Press the assigned programmable key to activate the “User Set” (Menu) Mode. 14 VX-4200 SERIES OPERATING MANUAL Vertex Standard Co., Ltd.
FCC ID: K6610354740 ADVANCED OPERATION Sub-Band Receive (Option) This function is only available on radios where the optional Sub-Band Receive Unit has been installed. When this optional module is installed, the radio will have the ability to receive on a different band than the radio normally operates on (for example, on a VHF radio this module enables reception on UHF, and vice-versa).
FCC ID: K6610354740 USER SET MODE The VX-4200 Series includes a “User Set” (Menu) Mode which allows the user to define or configure various settings, such as Squelch, Display contrast, etc. To activate the “User Set” (Menu) Mode: r Press the programmable key assigned to the “SET” function. r Select the User Set Mode item you wish to change using the [P1]/[P2] keys, then use the [q]/[p] keys to adjust the setting of the selected item. r Press the [P1] or [P2] key to store the new configuration.
FCC ID: K6610354740 OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES FVP-25 Encryption/DTMF Pager Unit FVP-35 Encryption Unit DVS-5 Voice Storage Unit VTP-50 VX-Trunk Unit FP-1023A External Power Supply MLS-100 Mobile Loudspeaker (12 W Peak Power) LF-1 Line Filter MH-700D DTMF Back-lit Microphone MH-25A8J Microphone DM-11A8J Desktop Microphone VPL-1 Programming Kit Sub-Band Receive Unit Availability of accessories may vary; some accessories are supplied standard per local requirements, others may be unavailable in some regions.
FCC ID: K6610354740 Copyright 2003 VERTEX STANDARD CO., LTD. All rights reserved. No portion of this manual may be reproduced without the permission of VERTEX STANDARD CO., LTD. Printed in Japan 0305m-0E E C 0 3 5 N 1 1 0 Vertex Standard Co., Ltd.