Operating Manual Part 15

October 2008 5300 ES Series Mobile Radio Operating Manual 6-11
SMARTNET / SmartZone / P25 Trunked Features
6.8 Sending Status Conditions
The status feature allows you to send your current status to your dispatcher. Up to eight
status conditions can be preprogrammed, and they are identified by an alias. If the Status
option switch is programmed, status conditions are sent as follows:
1 Momentarily press the Status option switch. The alias of the current status condition is
displayed.
2 To change the current status, rotate the Select switch until the desired status is
displayed. Then press the Select switch to accept that status. A single beep sounds
when the switch is pressed (if that option is selected). One of the following conditions
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 selection) is used 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 (tactical)
d Announcement group of the selected channel
• The emergency programming of the system to which that emergency talk group is
linked controls the emergency operation.