Standard Horizon HX370S - Manual (Page 7)

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1. GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The HX370S is a submersible, miniature 5-Watt portable two-way VHF ma-
rine transceiver. The transceiver has all allocated USA, international, or
Canadian channels. It has an emergency channel 16 which can be immedi-
ately selected from any channel by pressing the 16/9 key. NOAA weather
channels can also be accessed immediately by pressing the WX key.
Besides VHF marine transceiver operation, the HX370S provides LMR (Land
Mobile Radio) transceiver operation.
The transceiver includes the following features: Memory Scanning, Program-
mable Priority Scanning, NOAA Weather Alert, Battery Saver, easy-to-read
large LCD display, EEPROM memory back-up, Battery Life displayed on
LCD, and a transmit Time-Out Timer (TOT).
The transmitter provides a maximum of 5 Watts output, and has the selection
of 2.5 Watts and 1 Watt to assist the user in ensuring maximum battery life.
The optional FVP-31 Voice Scrambler can be installed to permit secure voice
communications with other STANDARD HORIZON radios with the FVP-31
scramblers installed.