Motorola Solutions Inc. 92FT5850 User Manual

transmitting. To receive calls, release the PTT button, or, for radios equipped 
with VOX, stop talking.  The red LED will extinguish when the radio stops 
transmitting. Transmitting 50% of the time, or less, is important because this 
radio generates measurable RF energy exposure only when transmitting (in 
terms of measuring for standards compliance).

• Transmit only when people outside the vehicle are at least the 

recommended minimum lateral distance away, as shown in Table 1, from 
the body of a vehicle with a properly installed antenna. This separation 
distance will ensure that there is sufficient distance from a properly installed 
(according to installation instructions) externally-mounted antenna to satisfy 
the RF exposure requirements in the standards listed above.

NOTE: Table 1 below lists the recommended lateral distance for people in an 

uncontrolled environment from the body of a vehicle with an approved, 
properly installed transmitting antenna (i.e., monopoles over a ground 
plane, or dipoles) at several different ranges of rated radio power for 
mobile radios installed in a vehicle.

• When a mobile radio is used in conjunction with another co-located transmitter 

such as a Vehicular Repeater, it is the vehicle operator’s responsibility to take 
appropriate steps to keep bystanders at the required separation distance from the 
vehicle to ensure compliance with the FCC's RF energy exposure limits for the 
general population. See the co-located transmitter’s user manual for more details.

Table 1.  Rated Power of Vehicle-Installed Mobile Two-Way Radio and 

Recommended Minimum Lateral Distance from Vehicle Body

Less than 7 watts

8 inches (20 centimeters)

7 to 15 watts

1 foot (30 centimeters)

16 to 39 watts

2 feet (60 centimeters)

40 to 110 watts

3 feet (90 centimeters)