Operating Manual

March 2008 5100 ES Models II/III Portable Radio Operating Manual 6-11
SMARTNET / SmartZone / P25 Trunked Features
2 To change the current status, press the Up/Down switch until the desired status is
displayed. Then to send the status, press the <F2> (Select) switch or momentarily press
the PTT switch. One of the following events then occurs:
- If five beeps sound and “Ack Rcvd” is displayed, the status was received and
acknowledged by the system.
- If after five tries the message is not acknowledged, a tone sounds and “No Ack” is
displayed.
Note Only the status number assigned to the alias is sent – not the actual text of the status
condition alias itself.
6.9 Emergency Alarm and Call
Emergency Alarms and Calls are separate functions that can be individually enabled or
disabled on each SMARTNET/SmartZone and P25 Trunked system. The Emergency
option switch (or menu parameter) is required for these functions. Other emergency
features are as follows:
• Emergency Alarms are transmitted on the selected talk group if emergency calls are
disabled, and on the emergency talk group if emergency calls are enabled.
• Emergency Call talk group selection priority is as follows. For example, if a global
emergency channel is not programmed, the emergency talk group of the selected
channel is used and so on.
a Global (radio wide) emergency channel
b Emergency group of the selected channel
c Talk group of the selected channel
d Announcement group of the selected channel
6.9.1 Emergency Alarms
An emergency alarm is a special transmission that alerts a dispatcher of an emergency
situation. It is sent automatically by simply pressing Emergency option switch or selecting
the Emergency menu parameter. The system to which the emergency channel is linked
must have Emergency Alarms enabled. If not, Emergency Alarms are disabled. The alarm
is sent on the control channel.
Proceed as follows to send an emergency alarm: