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 W9
Control Head
Quick Reference Card
BASIC OPERATION
Turning the Radio On and Off
Setting the Volume and Squelch
Changing Modes
Transmitting
Transmitting (Conventional Modes)
TELEPHONE OPERATION
Making a Phone Call
Dialling the Number in the Display
Dialling a Number from the Pre-Stored List
Dialling or Direct Dialling a New Number
XMIT BUSY
123
456
789
0
DIM
Pri
Non
Pri
Emer Dir
Scan
Call
Mode Vol Sel
Home
Page
Rpgm
Site
Phon H/L Lock
Rcl Sql
Del
MODE SELECT
HOME
PHONE
DELETE
Sts Msg
Srch
RECALL
SQUELCHNON-PRIORITY
INDICATOR
PRIORITY
INDICATOR
CALLSCAN
Slide the power switch on the bottom of the control
unit to the left.
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
Sql or remove the microphone
from the hang-up clip to defeat the coded squelch.
3 Press Sql again to return to coded-squelch operation.
4 To adjust squelch level, hold Sql until a tone sounds.
5 Press the Mode rocker switch to select squelch level.
6 Press Home.
Press the Mode rocker switch to scroll to 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.
Press Phon to select the phone function. The display
shows the last phone number dialed or a series of
dashes.
1 Press Sel or the PTT button, and wait for dial tone.
2 Press Sel or the PTT button again to dial the number
in the display.
1 Press the Mode rocker switch to scroll to the number
or name you want to call.
2 Press Sel or the PTT button, and wait for dial tone.
3 Press Sel or the PTT button again to dial the number
in the display.
1 Using the keypad, enter the telephone number.
2 Press Sel or the PTT button, and wait for dial tone.
3 Press Sel or the PTT button again to dial the number
in the display.