Ritron “ 6 “ SERIES OUTPOST Owner's Manual - page 8
OUTPOST Wireless Callbox
Field Programming
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1. Loosen the (4) captive screws in the front corners of the case. These screws are captive to the housing; to
prevent damaging them, DO NOT remove the screws from the housing.
2. Separate the case front from the case back, leaving the battery connected to the radio. Make sure the unit
has batteries installed. NOTE: The voltage of the batteries must be greater than 6 VDC to program properly.
3. Press and release the ON/PTT button on the front of the Callbox to turn the radio on.
4. Press and release the Program button (See FIG-1 on page 4 for location). The radio will begin to display a
series of four digits; with each digit separated by a hyphen.
5. Write down the four digits.The first two digits indicate the frequency code and the last two digits the tone
code; see
Table 1
and
Table 2
on pages 10 and 11. In this example an RQX-456 is programmed to operate
on the “Brown Dot” frequency of 464.500 MHz (Frequency code “04”) with 100.0 Hz tone (Tone code “12”).
FREQUENCY CODE
TONE CODE
6. If a 5
th
digit is displayed, the channel has been programmed for DQC and the last three digits indicate the
DQC code; see
Table 3
on page 11. In this example an RQX-456 was programmed to operate on the
“Brown Dot” frequency of 464.500 MHz (Frequency code “04”) with a DQC code of “723”.
FREQUENCY CODE
DQC CODE
7. If more than 5 digits are displayed, the radio has been programmed for 2-Tone Paging Decode. The fre-
quency and tone codes will be displayed, followed by a “C”, then the radio will display the 2-Tone paging
code; see
Table 4
on page 11. In this example an RQX-456 was programmed to operate on the “Brown Dot”
frequency of 464.500 MHz (Frequency code “04”) with 100.0 Hz tone (Tone code “12”) and 2-tone paging
decode frequencies of 330.5 Hz and 569.1 Hz (2-Tone code “91”)
FREQUENCY CODE
TONE CODE
PAGING CODE
8. If the channel is PC programmed with any frequency or tone not listed in
Table 1, Table 2
or
Table 3
on
pages 10 and 11, the radio will sound the error tone on contents read out and display an "E". The PC pro-
grammer will be required to readout the radios frequency and tone programming.
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. Normal radio operation resumes after the programming information has been displayed.
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