Luthor TL 88 Instruction Manual

TL 88

TRANSCEIVER PMR 446

PMR 446 Mhz

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TL 88

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

We want to appreciate the conﬁdence shown by purchasing this LUTHOR TECNOLOGIES

model TL-88. This transceiver oﬀers an innovative design in terms of technology and

multi-functionality. Its high quality and extensive features make it one of the best

equipments in its ﬁeld, we trust in your total satisfaction with your expectations and

communication needs.

In the design of the TL-88 it has put on the best eﬀorts, illusion and professionalism,

to ﬁnally reach the obtained result, a PROFESSIONAL transceiver for FREE USE

(PMR-446 without need of any license) with VERY EASY MANAGING and RELIABILITY

only at the level of the best manufacturers worldwide.

Its development has beneﬁted from the involvement of a large group of professionals

of the sector, but perhaps the most novel was to have the collaboration of diﬀerent

user proﬁles to catch the needs of diﬀerent groups: Professionals of the installation,

industry, Security Forces, entertainment, etc ... The major concern besides the QUALITY

and the RELIABILITY of the transceiver, was to get an equipment that could be used

both by professionals with experience in such devices and by users without any type

of experience , for which brilliantly stands out the FACILITY OF MANAGING of TL-88.

Contents Index:

Cautions and practical advices 5 - 7

General Transceiver Functions 8

Unpacking of the equipment and Content 9

Transceiver Scheme :

General Front View 10

General Side View 11

Display Icons Description 12, 13

Working Modes 14 -18

Scheme / index menu 19

Setting function using MENU 20 - 44

Special Functions 45 - 50

Battery Charge 51 - 53

Advanced Options Index (Soware) 54 - 64

Appendices index :

Table 56 memorized channels 66 - 69

factory parameters. 70

Technological parameters, conversion table number / frequency of

analogical sub tones CTCSS and DIGITAL DCS "N" and "I". 71 - 73

Use of the transceiver as a PMR-446 basic handheld. 74 - 81

Problems Solution Guide. 82 - 84

Optional Accessories. 85

Technical Speciﬁcations. 86

Environment Protection Note. 87

Declaration of Conformity. 88

Cautions and practical advices

Please read carefully the following manual before using the transceiver in order to

guarantee the maximum performances. This manual has important using and safety

instructions, therefore, we recommend you to keep it for future consulting.

Any repair must be realized only by qualiﬁed personnel.

Do not use this transceiver nor recharge it anywhere susceptible ﬂammable

environment (gas presence, smoke ...).

Turn oﬀ the equipment when being in a gas station.

Do not manipulate or attempt to modify the transceiver or the battery.

If you want to store the equipment during a long period of time, you have

to extract the battery.

When the equipment is in functioning, avoid that the antenna is close or

touching your face or eyes.

The equipment will give its maximum performance if the antenna is in vertical

position with the microphone at a distance of 5-10 cm from your mouth.

Ear Damages! If the receipt is done with headphones... the volume should be

low. Prolonged use at high volume may damage the ear. If aer using the

equipment, you hear a constant sound of a buzzing, reduce the volume or

abandon the use of headphones.

DO NOT turn on the equipment with a voltage other than indicated: risk

of damages.

DO NOT use the PTT button if is not necessary.

DO NOT use the transceiver if you are driving a vehicle. To prevent accidents,

focus only on driving.

Avoid exposing the transceiver to the sun for long periods or in Extreme

temperatures below 0 º or above 55 degrees.

The excessive overheating can provoke the explosion of the battery.

Be careful with the equipment and the battery, a blow might damage them

or even in the worst case, it can do that the battery exploits.

Under no concept short-circuit or cross the battery terminals, it could

irreversibly damage the battery and in the worst case could lead to an

explosion that could lead to potential physical harm to the user. It is

recommended:

- Transport the equipment of suitable form in order that the terminals

could not cross unintentionally.

- No carry it in your pocket with metallic objects like keys, coins, etc.

- Do not place the equipment with terminals making contact in a metal

surface.

Avoid contact of the equipment and battery to water or conductive liquids.

As the transceiver as the elements that comes with it aren’t toys, keep

them always out of reach of children and animals.

General Transceiver Functions:

· PMR-446 Transceiver for free use without license.

· Output Power 500mW.

· 128 memory channels

· Analogical CTCSS and Digital DCS Subtones.

· Channel Encryption (Scrambler)

· Saving System of Battery consumption

· Transmission Time Timer (TOT function).

· Busy channel automatic lock.

· Handsfree Function (VOX control).

· End transmission conﬁrmation warning (Roger Beep)

· Channel Search / Channels and Subtones Scanner

· Commercial Radio FM Function 88-108 Mhz

· Programmable by soware

· High Capacity Lithium Battery

Unpacking of the equipment and content

Transceiver TL-88

Desktop charger TLC – 435

Battery pack Li-Ion TLB-405

User manual

Belt clip TLP-411 Charger TLC-435/1

MIC

Unpack carefully the content of the box of your transceiver. We recommend you to verify the elements listed in the following table before discarding the packing. If some element is missing or it had been damaged due to the shipping, please contact your dealer as soon as possible.

Supplied accessories

Transceiver Scheme

MIC

Upper Channel Controller

ON-OFF/VOLUME Controller

TX transmission indicator LED (Red Colour), RX reception (Green Colour) and charge.

Speaker

LCD Display

Lower channel/functions key

UHF Antenna

Microphone

Upper channel/functions key

Menu Key

General Side View

Side transmission PTT

key (press for transmit

TX, release to receive

RX)

MONITOR Side Key

External accessories connection: programming cable, earphone, speaker…

Battery extract Key (Move it up)

Battery

Display Icons Description

You can see diﬀerent icons on the screen when the radio is turned on. The following table will help you to identify the meaning of the icons on the screen.

DW SCR VOX PRI

DCS

888

S N

5 9

Key lock on.

Sub tones Numbering / Menus Numbering.

Key tone “beep” on.

Battery save system on

Digital DCS Sub tone on “N” type

Analogical CTCSS Sub tone on

Digital DCS sub tone on, valid icon for type “N” and “I”

Depending working mode, displays the channel number or the frequency number.

888

S N

DCS

TX/RX Transceiver Priority in FM Radio Mode ON.

5 9

75, 5, 25

In frequency mode, displays the complete frequency.

Indicate that the transceiver is inside the MENU.

VOX

SCR

Voice encryption on.

Handsfree Function (VOX Control) Turned on.

PRI

Scanning beginning from priority active channel.

RX Reception and TX Transmission signal Indicator.

Battery charge Indicator..

Working Modes

The TL-88 is able to work in three ways: A-Channel Mode, B-Frequency Mode, and C-Radio

FM Mode.

A-Channel Mode

It is the most common working mode of the transceivers for FREE USE PMR-446. The

display shows the channel number and the top le the CTCSS tone.

Selecting and using appropriate channel whether it needs the combination of sub

tones, the TL-88 is compatible and able to communicate with any equipment PMR-446

of free use of the market, in any segment: professional, semi-professional or

economics of the consumer market (we recommend to read attentively the appendix

USE OF THE WALKIE AS PMR-446 BASIC that you will ﬁnd in the page 74), even this way

the TL-88 is supplied from factory with 56 channels (memories) preprogrammed, these

56 channels / memories are directly compatible with the majority of equipments for

004

ch -- 01

DW SCR

free use PMR-446 FREE PROFESSIONALS of the market (see appendix: TABLE 56

MEMORIZED CHANNELS, page 66).

Even if from origin the TL-88 is supplied with 56 channels/memories preprogrammed,

the transceiver is capable of memorizing by means of its easy and free programming

soware up to 128 channels (attention: these 128 channels/memories will be always

combining the 8 authorized frequencies for free use with the sub tones that dispose

the equipment, in this case 38 analogical sub tones (CTCSS) and 208 digital (DCS) ones,

giving a total of more than 1900 diﬀerent combinations to use or store in its 128

memories. See section advanced options index (soware), page 54).

B - Frequency Mode

The frequency mode is not so common in this type of equipments, but the TL-88 can

operate in it showing the complete number of working frequency (which is what

corresponds to a memorized channel) within the authorized 8 (remember: that

combining the sub tones you also have in this mode over 1900 diﬀerent combinations).

To operate with the frequency mode, with the receiver oﬀ, keep pressed the (MENU)

key and switch it on by the upper control ON/OFF. Keep pressed the (MENU) key until

the equipment display shows the frequency.

In this case the display changes the conﬁguration, where the numbers of sub tones

were appearing in CHANNELS MODE, now displays the memory numbers/channel

corresponding the frequency showed on the display.

C-Radio FM Mode

In FM Radio mode the transceiver becomes a receiving radio of issuers between 88 and

108 MHz, the traditional commercial FM radio issuers, where the user can listen to

music, news, talk-shows or programs of varied content.

0 0 1

4 4 6.0 0 6

DW SCR

0 0 1

4 4 6.0 0 6

DW SCR

To accede to the FM Radio mode, press the key (MENU), then press the lateral key

MONITOR and the transceiver will show the number that corresponds to the frequency

of the FM issuer.

Through the upper control button of channels you could change the frequency of the

issuers or realize a search or scan using the keys¬¬____ and _____ -. To search just

hold about 3 seconds the key for the direction you want that the radio realizes the

issuers' scanning of FM, then the display shows:

In the moment that the radio locates a sign, will stop in the frequency.

If your choice was to realize

the search in ascending sense

If your choice was to realize

the search in descending sense.

9 9.4 0

5 9

DW SCR

S C N. U P

DW SCR

S C N. D N

DW SCR

Inside the FM Radio mode the user has two options:

1 – To listen unique and exclusively commercial FM radio.

2 – To listen FM commercial radio but if it receives a transmission or signal in the last

channel of PMR-446 that was when entered on the FM Radio mode, the transceiver will

immediately leave the FM radio mode to go to the display mode Channels / Frequencies

and be able to listen to the transmission, enclosed to speak if you wish it.

In this case spent a few seconds aer the signal received or transmitted cuts the

transceiver returns to the FM radio mode automatically.

You will obtain more information about this practical function by referring to the MENU

14 (DW function) “Priority Transceiver while using the Radio FM function”, page 41.

To leave the FM radio function and return to the PMR-446 transceiver mode, you must

realize the same steps to enter: press the key (MENU), then press the lateral MONITOR

key and the transceiver will pass to the working mode as a transceiver that you

previously had selected : channels or frequencies.

Scheme / index Menu

Menu 01 – Analogical CTCSS / Digital DCS (TN) Sub tones

Menu 02 – Channel Encryption (SCR)

Menu 03 – Squelch level or noise ﬁlter selection (SQL)

Menu 04 – Battery Save System (SAV)

Menu 05 – Transmission Time Timer (TOT)

Menu 06 – Busy channel automatic lock (BCL)

Menu 07 – Key sound “beep” (BP)

Menu 08 – Display Light (LMP)

Menu 09 – Hands free Function (VOX)

Menu 10 – Roger Beep (EOT)

Menu 11 – Automatic Key Lock (ALK)

Menu 12 – Channel and Sub tones Scanner/Search (SCN)

Menú 13 – Selection of priority channel scanning (PRI)

Menú 14 – Priority Transceiver while using the FM Radio Function (DW)

Menú 15 – RESET / Reinitialize (RESET)

Menu 01 – Analogical CTCSS / Digital DCS (TN) Sub tones

Setting function using MENU

Press , using and , select the menu number 01.

Using the up control for the channel selection you can choose analogical (CTCSS) or

digital (DCS) sub tones.

MIC

Upper control

of channels

0 1

TN CT

0 1

TN DCS

Selected the sub tone type press for access to the selection of the number

of sub tone that you want to use or turn it oﬀ. To do it press again , you can

check that the numbers or the word OFF are blinking, using and or the

upper channel control, select the wanted subtone number or the word OFF. Once

selected your desired option you must conﬁrm it pressing or the PTT button.

You can continue operating inside the MENU to select other parameters using----------

and or you can leave the MENU to go directly to the operative channel display

pressing a few seconds, or the PTT button twice.

Note: See, Technological parameters, conversion table number / frequency of

analogical sub tones CTCSS and digitals DCS "N" and "I", on pages: 71, 72 and 73.

Menu 02 – Channel Encryption (SCR)

The TL-88 has an exceptional feature called ENCRYPTION. This advanced option is only

reserved for the best and more professional equipments of Market.

The encryption is a measure of safety and privacy in the conversations, once activated

this option the conversations will be totally unintelligible for any user who has not

another transceiver provided with the same feature. Another user who was in the

same channel, even with the same sub tone and did not have encryption or the same

one that your TL-88, would hear a voice so distorted that it would be totally

incomprehensible for him.

This feature makes the TL-88 LUTHOR an exceptional device, specially indicated for its

use by groups where for security reasons want to keep the maximum of possible

privacy.

Press , using and , locate the menu number 02. Press to

conﬁrm that you want conﬁgure this option.

0 2

s c r oFF

0 2

s c r on

You can see that the option to select is blinking on the display. Using the upper channel

control or pressing and you can choose if you turn on the channel

encryption (ON) or turn it oﬀ (OFF).

To conﬁrm your option press or PTT button.

You can continune operating inside the MENU to select other parameters

using--------------and or you can leave the MENU to go directly to the operative

channel display pressing a few seconds, or the PTT button.

Selecting the option ON (encryption enabled) the display shows the icon “SCR”.

0 2 1

CH - 1

DW SCR

Menu 03 – Squelch level or noise ﬁlter selection (SQL)

Press , using and , locate the menu number 03. Press “ ”

to conﬁrm that you want to conﬁgure this option.

You’ll see a blinking number between 0 and 9 on the display. Using the upper channel

control or and you can choose between 0 (Squelch Oﬀ) and 9 (Maximum

level of Squelch) the SQUELCH level (noise ﬁlter). The default level is 5.

To conﬁrm your option press or PTT button.

You can continue operating inside the MENU to select other parameters using------------

and or you can leave the MENU to go directly to the operative channel display

pressing a few seconds, or the PTT button.

0 3

SQL 5

IMPORTANT:

"0" is opened squelch and from 1 to 9 you will obtain the diﬀerent levels of noise

reduction, being "9" the highest level of reduction. If you set the too high level, the

signal that you will receive will be very clean of noise, but it will go to detriment of the

communication, that is, in this case will lose reception distance. On the contrary if the

selection is a too low level or deactivate the squelch will count with an increased

distance but the radio will be object to receive noise or signal of worse quality. The

most recommended level is the intermediate “5”.

Menu 04 – Battery Save System (SAV)

Press , using and , locate the menu number 04. Press to

conﬁrm that you want conﬁgure this option.

0 4

SAV on

Remember: This icon indicates that the saving system is activated.

You’ll see one of the two options blinking on the display. Using the upper channel

controller or and you can choose if you turn on (ON) or turn oﬀ (OFF) the

battery save system. The advice is keep it active (on).

To conﬁrm your option press or PTT button.

You can continue operating inside the MENU to select other parameters using------------

and or you can leave the MENU to go directly to the operative channel display

pressing a few seconds, or the PTT button.

Menu 05 – Transmission Time Timer (TOT)

This useful option allows you to border the maximum transmission time. Very advisable

when working as a group, with this option you can limit the transmission time of

transmitters and avoid the monopoly transmission of one user.

This option allows you to select between 15, 30, 45… (intervals of 15 s.) up to 300

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