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 W7
Control Head
Quick Reference Card
BASIC OPERATION
Turning the Radio On and Off
Setting the Volume and Squelch
Changing Modes
Transmitting
Transmitting (Conventional Modes)
Activating Scan
Programming a Scan List
POWER
ON/OFF
2
2Pge
or
SITE
LOCK
MESSAGE
REPROGRAM
DIRECT
O
#
Del Rcl
Mode
Vol
Mic
Phon
Call Sel
PWR
Scan
XMIT
BUSY
DIM
HOME
1Ste 2
3
Lck
4Sts
5Rpg
6Msg
7
H/L
8
Mon
9
Dir
MAEPF 23213 A
MODE
EMERGENCY
or
SECURE
Emer
PHONE
SCAN
CALL
SELECT
PAGE
VOLUME
DIRECT
INDICATOR
DELETE
RECALL
MONITOR
STATUS
HORN/LIGHTS
HOME
PRIORITY/
NON-PRIORITY
INDICATORS
Press the PWR button once.
1 Hold the Vol rocker switch down to increase or
decrease volume as desired, then release.
The display shows volume levels from
0 to 15.
2 On conventional modes with Private-Line or Digital
Private-Line, press
Mon or remove the microphone
from the hang-up clip to defeat the coded squelch.
3 Press Mon again, or replace the microphone on the
hang-up clip to return to coded-squelch operation.
4 To adjust squelch level, hold Mon until a tone sounds.
5 Press the Mode rocker switch to select squelch level.
6 Press HOME.
Press the Mode rocker switch to select the desired
mode
OR
Press HOME to access the preprogrammed Home
mode.
1 Press and hold the microphone PTT button.
2 When the transmit light comes on solid and no alert
tones sound (or a talk-permit tone or ID sidetone
sounds), speak into the microphone in a normal voice.
3 State your FCC call sign at the beginning of each
transmission.
1 Press Dir (Direct). The Dir indicator lights.
2 Press Dir again to return to repeater operation.
1 Press Scan to start a scan. If no activity exists, the
display shows your selected mode. When a scanned
channel or talkgroup becomes active, the display
shows the active mode name. The
PRI and NPRI
indicators show priority.
2 Press Scan again to stop scanning.
1 Hold Scan until a tone sounds and the scan indicator
blinks.
2 Press the Mode rocker switch to select the mode you
want to program.
OR
Press the Rcl button to scroll through the modes
currently in the scan list.
3 Press the Sel button as indicated in the table below to
add or remove the displayed mode from the scan list.
4 Repeat the previous steps to continue editing the list.
5 Press HOME or Scan to exit.
Press Sel Mode Indicator
One time Non-Priority
NPRI lit
Two times Second Priority
PRI lit
Three times First Priority
PRI blinks
Four times Delete from List No indicator