Bendix King

Use: used to communicate with surrounding agencies on mutual aid incidents, most commonly wildland incidents.

Specifications

VHF radio
Has its own USER programmable COMMAND GROUP
Frequencies broken into:
- 25 groups
- 20 channels
- Total of 500 available channels.
12 Character 2 line display
20-24 oz
Operating temperature -30 deg to 60 deg C
BK shall be placed in the unit charger and shall be removed once the battery is fully charged.
Every Saturday or after heavy use the spare battery shall be fully charged and removed from the charger.
Monthly maintenance
- 1st of the All hand held batteries shall be cycled through the battery Tri-Analyzer and marked with a colored dot indicating the date and the M.A.H. (milli-amp hours) at the completion of the test. Batteries failing the test or that are in need of replacement will be sent through channels with the Form 210-6 to the Comm Tech in training.
- Minimum A.H. standard is labeled on Tri- Analyzer

Operations

Talk with a normal voice, radio 2-3 inches from face

Change group
- Turn on
- Press #

Press desired group number (1-25)
Press ENT

Change channel
- Turn knob until you reach the desired channel
  - Beep at 1 or 20
- Repeater tones
  - 16 California Sate wide tones, but 32 pre-set in radio
  - Definition: a sub-audible tone that is broadcasted as soon as you press the push to talk button, it unlocks the repeater for use.
  - Most FD use the same transmit and receive frequencies but different tones in order to access more than one
  - Press button of what number you need
  - If you hear a beep another tone has already been
  - Tone is visible in display under channel name
- Scan
  - ADD channel
    - SCAN toward the front
    - Channel selector knob to the channel you want to scan
    - Press ENT
      - SCN will appear in the display window above the frequency
    - Move toggle toward back of radio and SCN will flash in display window
  - DELETE channel
    - SCAN toward front
    - Channel selector knob to the channel you want to scan
    - Press CLR button
      - SCN will disappear from display window
    - Command group
      - Can set up to 20 channels from throughout radio as COMMAND GROUP
      - Enter channel into command group
        
        Go to desired channel
        
        Press *
        
        Display will read CMND CHAN
      - Delete channel from command group
        
        Go to desired channel
        
        Hold * and press #
      - Delete entire Command Group
        
        Press and hold * until display reads CMND EMPTY
        
        High pitched beeps will be omitted until its all deleted, then it will be low pitched
        
        Get to Command Group
        
        Press # twice
        
        Display says group number and GRP CMND
        
        Press ENT
        
        Lock Keypad