User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- ASTRO® XTL™ 5000 Mobile Radio with W4, W5, W7, and W9 Control Heads User's Guide
- Front Cover
- W4 Quick Reference Card
- W5 Quick Reference Card
- W4 and W5 Control Heads Foldout Page
- Inside Title Page
- Product Safety and RF Exposure Compliance
- Computer Software Copyrights
- Documentation Copyrights
- Disclaimer
- Notations Used in this Manual
- Contents
- Introduction
- Basic Operating Procedures
- General Radio Features
- Often-used Features
- Emergency Call and Alarm
- Scan Operation
- Turning On Scan
- Turning Scan On While Disregarding the Squelch Code (Conventional Modes Only)
- Viewing a Scan List
- Transmitting While Scan Is On
- Temporarily Deleting a Nuisance Mode With Scan On (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Restoring a Nuisance Mode (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Changing Mode Priorities While Scan Is On (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Restoring Mode Priorities in a Scan List (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Programming a Scan List
- Hang Up Box (HUB)
- Optional External Alarms (Horn and Lights)
- Time-Out Timer
- Push-To-Talk Identification (PTT-ID)
- Telephone Interconnect List (Conventional and Trunking)
- Unlimited Telephone Interconnect (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Call Alert Page (Conventional and Trunking— Digital Modes Only)
- Conventional Radio Features
- Trunking Operation
- Secure Operation
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
- W7 and W9 Control Heads Foldout Page
- W7 Quick Reference Card
- W9 Quick Reference Card
- Back Cover
ASTRO XTL 5000 Digital Mobile Radio with W4, W5, W7, and W9 97
Secure Operation
Selecting an Encryption Key (Conventional
Only)
The Select Key feature allows you to manually select any one of the
16 encryption keys.
If the current mode is programmed with key selection being strapped
to force the current mode to use a predetermined key, the Select Key
menu will not appear as a Secure menu item.
1 Press and hold down until a tone sounds, which
indicates entry into the Advanced Secure menu.
2 Turn the Mode knob (W4) or press the Mode rocker switch
(W5, W7, W9) to locate the
KEY SEL option.
3 Press to enter the Key Selection menu.
The display changes to show the last user-selected key.
4 Do one of the following:
• Turn the Mode knob (W4) or press the Mode rocker switch
(W5, W7, W9) to review the encryption keys,
OR
• Use direct keypad entry to access the encryption keys.
5 Choose one of the following:
• To save a key, press .
The radio returns to the home display.
• To select the default encryption keys on a radio-wide basis,
press while the radio displays
PRESET.
Selecting preset causes the radio to return to its
preprogrammed keys on a per-zone/-mode basis.
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