MIDLAND Base Camp446 User Manual

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To set the

VOX level, press the MENU button, until the display shows “VO”.

After that, turning the

TUNING knob, you can choose “1”,”2”,”3” or “4”.

To confirm, press the

PTT button or wait for 5 seconds.

To disable the

VOX function, by turning the TUNING knob, select “oF” and then push the PTT

key.

CALL ALERT SELECTION

MIDLAND BASE CAMP allows to send a CALL alert signal to all the users of the same channel;

on the display it appear the “

TX” icon and the tone of confirmation can be heard by your own spe-

aker.

MIDLAND BASE CAMP has 5 selectable CALL alerts (oF, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5).

CALL, press the LOCK/CALL button.

To select, press the

MENU button until a “CA” icon with the current CALL ALERT setting is di-

splayed.
Turn the

TUNING knob to make the CALL alert selections; the radio will emit a corresponding tone

for each selection. To confirm, press the

PTT button or wait for 5 seconds.

The pressure of the

CALL/LOCK button for 5 seconds in AM/FM mode, allows the user to store

a desired radio station.

ROGER BEEP (end of transmission tone)

When the

PTT button is released, the radio will beep to confirm to other users that you’ve finished

your transmission and that they can begin to speak.
To turn the

ROGER BEEP on, press the MENU button till the display shows “rb of”; than by the

TUNING knob, select “rb on”. The display will show the icon “RGB”.

To confirm, push the

PTT button or wait for 5 seconds.

To disable this function, repeat the procedure selecting the “

rb of” and on the display will disappear

the icon “

RGB”.

BEEP TONE

This function permit you to produce a beep tone every time you press a button.
If you want to enable this function, press the

MENU button until the display shows “bp on”, then

select by the

TUNING knob “bp of”.

To confirm, press the

PTT button or wait for 5 seconds.

The icon will desapper.
In this way, all “beeps” and “tones” are disabled.
To re-able this function, repeat the procedure selecting the “

bp on” by turning the TUNING knob

and confirm by pressing the

PTT button or wait for 5 seconds.

DUAL WATCH

The

DUAL WATCH function enables users to MONITOR, only in reception, 2 selected channels

for any activity.
To turn on the

DUAL WATCH function, press the MENU button until the display shows “DW of”.

Select the second channel by turning the

TUNING knob. To select one of the 38 CTCSS/DCS

Privacy Codes for the second channel press again the

MENU button and select the privacy code

turning the

TUNING knob.

To confirm press the

PTT button or wait for 5 seconds.

The display will show “

DW” alternatively the channel in use and the second one selected.

To turn off the

DUAL WATCH function, you can just press the SCAN button or the MENU one.

When the radio will receive a signal on one of the two channels selected, the “

DUAL WATCH”

function will temporarily stop, allowing the transmission and the reception of the active signal on
the channel in use.
MIDLAND BASE CAMP will stay in the active channel as long as the signal is present and will

resume scanning 5 seconds after the signal is no longer present.

MARINE BAND

Select the

MARINE BAND using the BAND switch, the display will show the least selected channel

and the

MARINE icon. MARINE BAND can not transmit, but only receive signals.

When you are in

MARINE mode, the display will show the number of the channel (for ex. 1 d).

To select the desired channel, turn clockwise or counter-clockwise the

TUNING knob.

MARINE BAND, you can activate also the SCAN, MONITOR and LOCK functions.

AM/FM RECEIVER MODE

BASE CAMP can receive AM/FM frequencies, by selecting through the BAND switch the desired

mode. The display will show the selected

AM/FM BAND and the active frequency.

Selecting the frequency on AM/FM BAND

To select the

AM/FM frequency, turn clockwise and counter-clockwise the TUNING knob. Holding

the knob for 2 seconds, the radio will

SCAN for the frequencies until it receives a strong and clear

signal; if you keep holding the knob clockwise or counter-clockwise for 5 seconds, the

SCAN

function is continuous, until you stop it just turning slightly the

TUNING knob or pushing the PTT

button.

Memorizing the frequency

BASE CAMP can store 2 selected frequencies in AM and 2 in FM BAND. To memorize the first

frequency, press for 5 seconds the

LOCK/CALL button while for the second one keep pressing

the

SCAN button.