User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Product Safety and RF Exposure Compliance
- Computer Software Copyrights
- Documentation Copyrights
- Disclaimer
- Contents
- Safety
- General Radio Operation
- Notations Used in This Manual
- XTS 2500 Model III Radio
- Physical Features of the XTS 2500 Model III Radio
- Programmable Features
- Display
- Backlight
- Status Symbols
- Menu Entry (Softkey)
- Menu Select Buttons
- Home Button (h)
- App Button (@)
- 4-Way Navigation Button (o)
- Keypad
- LED Indicators
- Alert Tones
- Standard Accessories
- Universal Connector Cover
- Remote Speaker Microphone Adapter
- Radio On and Off
- Zones and Channels
- Receive / Transmit
- Common Radio Features
- Selectable Power Level
- Radio Lock
- Mute or Unmute Keypad Tones
- Conventional Squelch Options
- PL Defeat
- Time-out Timer
- Emergency
- Lists
- Edit a Call, Page, or Phone List Number
- Edit a Call, Page, or Phone List Name
- Scan
- Telephone Calls (Trunking Only)
- Private Calls (Trunking Only)
- Call Alert Paging
- Conventional Talkgroup Calls (Conventional Operation Only)
- Repeater or Direct Operation
- Special Radio Features
- Helpful Tips
- Accessories
- Glossary
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Special Radio Features
Trunking System Controls
Failsoft
The failsoft system ensures continuous radio communications during
a trunked system failure. If a trunking system fails completely, the
radio goes into failsoft operation and automatically switches to its
failsoft channel.
During failsoft operation:
When the trunking system returns to normal operation, your radio
automatically leaves failsoft operation and returns to trunked
operation.
Out-of-Range
If you go out of the range of the system, and can no longer lock onto a
control channel:
Your radio transmits and
receives in conventional
operation on a
predetermined frequency.
You hear a medium-pitched
tone every 10 seconds.
•Medium-pitched tone
The display shows OUT OF
RANGE and the currently selected
zone/channel combination, and/
or you hear a low-pitched tone.
AND/OR
• Low-pitched tone
Your radio remains in this out-of-
range condition until it locks onto
a control channel, or it locks
onto a failsoft channel, or it is
turned off.
• Locks onto a control channel,
or
• Locks onto a failsoft channel,
or
•Turned off.
FAILSOFT
OUT OF RANGE