Oricom UHF182X User manual

Keep this user guide for future reference. Always retain your proof of purchase in case warranty
service is required.
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Operating Instructions
UHF182X 80 Channel UHF Citizen Band Radio
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This unit complies with all relevant Australian
and New Zealand approval requirements
AS/NZS 4365:2011
When a new narrowband radio receives a transmission from an older wideband radio the speech may sound loud
and distorted – simply adjust your radio volume for the best listening performance. When an older wideband radio
receives a signal from a new narrowband radio the speech may sound quieter - simply adjust your radio volume for
best listening performance. When operating a narrowband radio or Channel 41 - 80 interference is possible from
wideband radios transmitting on high power or on adjacent frequency.
The issues described above are not a fault of the radio but a consequence of mixed use of wideband and narrowband
radios.
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Table of contents ..........................................................................3
Controls and Indicators .................................................................4
Important information ...................................................................7
Installation of your Oricom Radio...................................................8
Operations..................................................................................11
UHF CB channels and frequencies ..............................................28
Express Warranty (Australia) .......................................................32
Need Help?
If you need assistance setting up or using your Oricom product now or in
the future, call Oricom Support.
Australia [phone]
www.oricom.com.au
Mon-Fri 8am – 6pm AEST
New Zealand 0800 67 42 66
Mon-Fri 10am – 8pm NZST
Table of contents
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Controls and Indicators
Controls and Indicators
Front View of Controller Speaker Microphone
CH
M1
M4
M3
M2
MR/ MW
PRI/MO
SC/RM
TW/MENU
/AUTO
M5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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1. Push to Talk (PTT)
2. LCD display
3. On/off, Mode (Volume/
channel/SQ)
4. Speaker
5. Antenna selector to ANT1 and
ANT2/Auto Antenna selector/
Memory CH 1
6. Scan/Remove memory/Key
lock (Press hold and power
on)/Memory CH 2
7. Priority channel recall/
Monitor On/Off/Memory CH 3
8. Memory recall/memory write
/Memory CH 4
9. Triple watch/Menu/Memory
CH 5
10. Microphone
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Controls and Indicators
Rear View of Radio
2
34 1
1. Antenna Jack 1
2. Antenna Jack 2
3. Power supply connection
4. 3.5mm external jack for optional 8 ohm speaker
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Controls and Indicators
LCD Icons & Indicators
1 2 43 5 6
9 1087
17161514131211
1. Signal strength & TX meter of
ANT1
2. Monitor
3. Status display
4. Duplex on
5. Scrambler on
6. Roger Beep on
7. Key Beep on
8. Priority channel
9. Triple watch on
10. Signal strength & TX meter of
ANT2
11. Antenna 1 on
12. CTCSS or DCS channel
display
13. CTCSS on
14. DCS on
15. Memory channel
16. Channel display
17. Antenna 2 on
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Important information
Please read before installing or operating your
Oricom radio
The operation of your UHF radio in Australia and New Zealand is subject
to conditions in the following licenses:
In Australia, the ACMA Radio communications (Citizen Band Radio
Stations) and in New Zealand by MED the General User Radio License
for Citizen Band Radio.
Safety Information and Warnings
WARNING
Potentially Explosive Atmosphere
Turn your radio OFF when in any area with a potentially
explosive atmosphere. Sparks in such areas could cause an
explosion or re resulting in injury or even death.
NOTE: Areas with potentially explosive atmospheres are often,
but not always clearly marked. They include fuelling areas such
as below deck on boats; fuel or chemical transfer or storage
facilities; areas where the air contains chemicals or particles,
such as grain, dust, or metal powders; and any other area where
you would normally be advised to turn off your vehicle engine.
Blasting Caps and Areas
To avoid possible interference with blasting operations, turn
your radio OFF near electrical blasting caps or in a “blasting
area” or in areas posted: “Turn off two way radios.” Obey all
signs and instructions.
Electromagnetic Interference/Compatibility
Nearlyeveryelectronicdeviceissusceptibletoelectromagnetic
interference (EMI). To avoid the possibility of electromagnetic
interference and/or compatibility conicts, turn off your radio
in any location where posted notices instruct you to do so
such as health care facilities.
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Installation of your Oricom Radio
Fitting the Controller Speaker Microphone
The controller speaker microphone uses a 6-pin telephone style plug
and socket:
1. Position the microphone plug so the plastic ap faces upward, and
insert the plug into the socket until it ‘clicks’.
2. Gently press the rubber boot into the hole surrounding the socket
so that the slot around the boot ts neatly inside the rim of the entry
hole.
Disconnecting the Controller Speaker Microphone
It is recommended that the Controller Speaker Microphone be left
permanently connected to the radio, but if it must be disconnected,
proceed as follows:
1. Lift the rubber boot and the lip of the raised area on the front panel.
2. Ease the rubber boot out of the cable entry hole and slide it along the
cable away from the front panel.
3. Identify the plug locking lever, and move the lever towards the plug
body. At the same time gently pull the plug from the socket.
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Installation of your Oricom Radio
CAUTION
This radio is designed for operation on a 12 Volt battery
system. It should not be connected directly to a 24 Volt
system.
When installing your radio in your vehicle, check that
during installation you do not damage any wiring or vehicle
components that may be hidden around the mounting
position.
Ensure the installation does not interfere with the operation of
the vehicle and meets all regulatory and safety retirements for
accessories tted to your vehicle.
For optimum performance, your radio needs to be installed
correctly. If you are unsure about how to install your radio, we
suggest you have your radio professionally installed by a UHF
specialist or Auto electrician. When installing the radio, avoid
mounting it close to heaters or air conditioners. Never press
the PTT button before connecting the antenna to the radio.
Wiring Methods
There are two possible wiring congurations for connecting to the
vehicles power supply.
A. Radio stays ON when the ignition is switched OFF
Connect the radio’s negative (black) lead to the vehicle chassis, or
directly to the battery’s negative terminal.
Connect the radio’s positive (red) lead via the 3 Amp fuse to the
battery’s positive terminal. Alternatively, the positive lead could be
connected at the fuse box at a point that has DC Power continuously
available (preferably the battery side of the ignition switch) via the 3
Amp fuse.
B. Radio turns OFF with the ignition switch
Connect the radio’s negative (black) lead to the vehicle’s chassis, or
directly to the battery’s negative terminal.
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Installation of your Oricom Radio
The radios positive (red) lead should connect to an accessory point in
the vehicle’s fuse box via the 3 Amp fuse.
Antenna information
The antenna (not supplied) is of critical importance to maximise
your output power and receiver sensitivity.
A poorly installed, inferior quality antenna, or one not designed
for the correct frequency band, will give poor performance. You
should only purchase an antenna designed for the 477MHz
frequency band.
Antenna installation
To obtain maximum performance from the radio, select a high quality
antenna and mount it in a good location.
Never press the PTT before connecting an antenna to the radio.
Optional accessories
If required, you may install an external (8 ohm, Minimum 5W power)
speaker tted with a 3.5mm plug (not supplied).
Depending on the installation, it may be necessary to use an external
speaker (not supplied) to give improved volume and clarity. This can be
plugged into the external speaker (SP) socket on the rear of the unit.
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Operations
Operations
Turning on the Power
Press and hold the Channel selector.
At power on, the current applied DC voltage is displayed numerically as
shown below.
Special over and under voltage detection circuitry protects the radio and
warns of excessive voltage condition by the LCD ashing the 3 backlight
colours.
CH
M1
M4
M3
M2
MR/ MW
PRI/MO
SC/RM
TW/MENU
/AUTO
Press and hold
Setting the Volume
Turn the channel selector clockwise to adjust the sound level for
comfortable reception.
CH
M1
M4
M3
M2
MR/ MW
PRI/MO
SC/RM
TW/MENU
/AUTO
Selecting a channel
Press channel selector once. "CH" will appear on the LCD.
Select the channel by rotating the channel knob.
CH
M1
M4
M3
M2
MR/ MW
PRI/MO
SC/RM
TW/MENU
/AUTO
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Setting the Squelch Level
1. Press channel selector 2 times. The current squelch level is displayed.
2. Select the squelch level by rotating the channel knob.
The radio has 16 preset (off to 15) squelch levels, off-Squelch open.
1-Max. sensitivity (Min. squelch)
15-Min. sensitivity (Max/Tight squelch)
CH
M1
M4
M3
M2
MR/ MW
PRI/MO
SC/RM
TW/MENU
/AUTO
Note :
*If a button is not pressed within 5 seconds, the radio will
automatically exit the sub display of "VOL" "CH" and "SQ".
PTT (Push-To-Talk) button
Before transmitting always listen on the channel to make sure it is not
being used by another operator.
Pressing the PTT allows audio to be transmitted, by speaking across the
front on the controller speaker microphone. TX is indicated by the level
bars on the LCD display.
To receive, release the PTT button.
When transmitting, hold the MIC 5cm from your mouth and speaker
clearly in normal voice across the front of the mic.
Antenna Selector
Manual Antenna Select
The default setting is antenna terminal 1.
This button is used to manually select the antenna
terminal 1 or terminal 2.
/AUTO
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Press ANT/AUTO button to change the antenna connection
to terminal 2.
The connected antenna appears on the LCD as below.
To reactivate manual antenna select, press ANT/AUTO.
Ant 1 iconAnt 2 icon
Auto Antenna Select
When Auto Antenna Select is active the antenna with the best signal will
be selected, this antenna will also be used to transmit.
To activate auto antenna push and hold the
antenna button for 2 seconds.
To deactivate Automatic antenna, press and hold
antenna selector button.
Ant1 or Ant2 icon will blink.
If an antenna is not connected and the PTT is pressed the display will
ash in multi-colour to indicate there is a problem.
Also "Ant No" will appear on the LCD.
/AUTO
Press and hold
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Operations
Key Lock
To prevent accidental entries, you can lock the keypad.
To enable or disable the "Key lock" function:
Turn radio off, while holding SC/RM button turn the Radio on.
When the key lock is active, a warning beep will be heard if you attempt
to press keys.
Note: The PTT, volume/squelch dial/Antenna selector do not lock,
Warning beep is only active if beep function is turned on.
• To disable the Key lock function:
• The radio off
• Press hold "SC/RM" and power on, "Key of" will then appear.
Press hold and power on
Scanning
The Scan feature allows you to search for active channels automatically.
There are three scanning modes: Open Scan, Priority Scan, Memory
Scan.
These three scan modes can be selected from the menu.
Open scan
Press SC/RM button to start open scan. The OS sub menu display
appears on the LCD.
The scan direction can be changed at any time by rotating the channel
selector left or right.
To stop Scan, press SC/RM Button or PTT button.
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Operations
When a signal is found, scanning will stop at the channel to allow the
signal to be heard, then resume scanning when the channel is clear
again.
CH 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 ….. 77-78-79-80
Priority scan
With Priority Scan, The radio scans for activity, but in addition, it also
inserts your Priority Channel into the scan sequence.
This means that your Priority Channel will be monitored regularly while
scanning to ensure that no calls are missed.
Any signal received on your Priority Channel
will take precedence over any signals received
on the other channels.
CH 1-2-3-4-5- PRI CH - 6-7-8-9-10- PRI CH …. 76-77-78-79-80
Memory scan
The memory channel Scan feature allows the radio to automatically
scan through 5 memory channels.
The radio scans automatically the 5 memory channels and stops where
radio trafc is detected.
Note: Please program 5 channels of your choice as memory channels.
See instructions on page 18 to write memory.
The default channels are shown below.
Memory Memory 1 Memory 2 Memory 3 Memory 4 Memory 5
Location ANT/AUTO SC/RM PRI/MO TW/MENU MR/MW
channels 1 20 30 40 80
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CH 1-20-30-40-80
RM (Remove Memory in Scanning)
Your Radio has been pre-programmed with
all the UHF CB channels into the Open Scan channel memory.
However, you can change or customize the channels by this function.
• Select the desired channel with rotary knob.
• Press and hold SC/RM button.
• The memory icon "M" disappears.
Press and hold
Note: To enable a removed channel, select the channel, then press and
hold SC/RM until SKPoF appears.
Priority Channel Recall
You can store a priority channel through the menu in the "P" setting.
To recall the priority channel press the PRI/MO button.
"P" will appear along with priority channel number.
This priority channel will also be automatically monitored during Priority
scan.
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Monitor Function
The monitor button is used for temporarily opening the squelch,
in order to listen to signals that are too weak to keep the squelch
permanently opened.
For brief listening, press and hold Monitor to turn Squelch off, press
and hold again to turn Squelch back on.
Press and hold
MR (Memory recall channels)
To access memorized channels simply press the "MR/MW" button then
one of the M1 to M5 buttons.
Memory Memory 1 Memory 2 Memory 3 Memory 4 Memory 5
Location ANT/AUTO SC/RM PRI/MO TW/MENU MR/MW
channels 1 20 30 40 80
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MW (Memory write channels)
The memory write button is used to store a channel in the memory
location M1 to M5.
To store channels:
• Select the desired channel with rotary knob.
• Press and hold MR/MW button.
• Select the location you would like to store the
channel by pressing M1, M2, M3, M4 or M5.
TW (Triple Watch Function)
Pressing the TW/MENU button activates the Triple watch function.
The Triple Watch feature allows for monitoring of 2 or 3 channels.
The currently displayed channel and 2 more channels saved in TRI1 and
TRI2.
To store the channels in TRI1 or TRI2, select the channels and features
CTCSS/DCS/Duplex on the display then enter menu mode and save the
channel in TRI1 or TRI2.
If only one additional channel is required, then select "Off" in TRI2.
Once Watch is activated, by pressing the TW/MENU button, the TRI1
and TRI2 channels are checked in the following sequence. Main channel
is checked for 0.7 of a second, the TRI1 for 0.15 seconds, TRI2 for 0.15
seconds and then back to the Main channel.
The sequence is repeated until a signal is detected or radio is switched
off.
If there is a signal present on TRI1 or TRI2, The radio will wait on that
channel for 5 seconds after the signal is no longer present, then revert
to Tri Watch operation.
Triple Watch can be disabled by pressing any key.
Press and hold
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Operations
Note: The default value of TRI1 and TRI2 is off, you must store a
channel to use this feature.
Menu Function
The menu provides a convenient method of customizing some of the
radios functions.
The following menu options are available. Note that some items are
only available on certain channels
To access the Menu functions:
1. Press and hold the TW/MENU button.
The rst menu function is displayed.
2. Briey press the menu button to cycle
through each available function.
3. Use the rotary selector to change the parameters of the selected
function.
4. To exit the menu, Press PTT button or press and hold the menu
button for 2 seconds.
The following feature can be selected by using the "MENU" button:
1) User selectable Off, 38 CTCSS and 104 DCS codes (CTCSS or DCS
cannot be enable on channel 5 and 35)
2) Scrambler setting (Off, 1 to 5 different frequencies)
3) LCD backlight colour (3 colours)
4) LCD backlight level (Bright and Dimmer)
5) Duplex (On/Off)
Press and hold
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6) Priority channel memory (1 to 80 Channel)
7) Scan mode (Open/Priority/Memory scan)
8) Scan resume time (P5,5,10,15)
9) Busy channel lockout (On or Off)
10) Key beep tone (On or Off)
11) Roger beep tone (Off, 1 to 5)
12) Melody call tone (Off, 1 to 5)
13) Triple watch sub channel 1 setting (Off, 1-80)
14) Triple watch sub channel 2 setting (Off, 1-80)
15) squelch tail (On or Off)
16) Auto power off (Off,1,2,4)
17) Software version display
Function Parameter Display Default
CTCSS and DCS
CTCSS38
Offto
DCS 104
Scrambler
Off
Off
1 to 5
Backlight LED
colour
rd
Greento
Ab
Bright of LCD
BRT
Brightto
DIM
Duplex
On
Onto
Off
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