This product has now been cancelled and is no longer available.
The ATEX VX-824 is a 'compact radio' boasting full band capability, programmable channel spacing and rated to ATEX II 2G Ex ib IIC T4. It is approved for Category 2 (Zone 1), Equipment Group II, Gas Group C Temperature Class T4.
Available in both 1W full band VHF and 1W full band UHF models which are programmable for 12.5, 20 and 25KHz Ch spacing. The radio is submersible 1 meter in water for 30 minutes.
Hardware features:
- 16 position rotary with stop (32 Group settings allow 512 channels)
- 2 side buttons (programmable)
- 4 front panel buttons A, B, C and D (programmable)
- Top side orange Emergency button (programmable)
- Accessory connector
- Full band
- Large 12 character display
- MIL 810 CDEF
- IP 57
Operator friendly controls and features include:
- Large rotary channel selector
- Rotary On/Off and volume control
- Tri colour LED
- Large textured PTT
- Rugged die-cast chassis
- Option board capable
- Dynamic Tx power adjustment
- Audio Companding
- CTCSS / DCS and 5 Tone Encode / Decode
- Emergency
- Stun/Revive/Kill
- Lone worker
- Programmable channel spacing 12.5/20/25KHz
- Scan
- ARTS (Automatic Range Transpond System)