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
- Control Head Front Foldout
- Inside Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Basic Operating Procedures
- General Radio Features
- Often-used Features
- Emergency Call and Alarm
- Scan Operation
- Turn On Scan
- Turn Scan On While Disregarding the Squelch Code (Conventional Modes Only)
- View a Scan List
- Transmit While Scan Is On
- Temporarily Delete a Nuisance Mode With Scan On (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Restore a Nuisance Mode (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Change Mode Priorities While Scan Is On (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Restore Mode Priorities in a Scan List (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Program a Scan List
- Hang Up Box (HUB)
- Optional External Alarms (Horn and Lights)
- Time-Out Timer
- Push-To-Talk Identification (PTT-ID)
- Conventional Radio Features
- Trunking Operation
- Features Used on Trunking Systems
- Telephone Interconnect List
- Unlimited Telephone Interconnect (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Enhanced Private Conversation (Digital Modes Only)
- Call Alert Page (Digital Modes Only)
- Failsoft
- Dynamic Regrouping (Digital Modes Only)
- SmartZone® (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Out-of-Range Indication
- Trunked Announcement
- Secure Operation
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
- Control Head Back Foldout
- W7 Quick Reference Card
- W9 Quick Reference Card
- Back Cover
Answer a Phone Call in Trunked Modes
Make a Call (Trunked Modes Only)
Alarm and Call
Send a Status Transmission
Send a Direct-Entry Keyboard Status
Transmission
Initiate an Enhanced Private Conversation Call
Initiate a Private Conversation II
Initiate a Call Alert Page
Answer a Call Alert Page
Answer a Private Conversation Call
When a call is received, ringing tones are heard from
the speaker, and the display shows
PHONE.
1 Press PHON and begin your conversation.
2 Press Home to hang up.
A tone sounds and the display alternates between
EMERGENCY and the zone/channel.
1 Press the PTT button and talk.
2 After completing the call, press and hold the
emergency actuator until a tone sounds to return to
normal operation.
After the display shows ACK RCVD, your radio has
priority voice-channel access.
1 Press the PTT button and talk.
2 After completing the call, press and hold the
emergency actuator until a tone sounds to return to
normal operation.
1 Press Sts. The display shows the last acknowledged
status or first status name.
2 Press the Mode rocker button or use the keypad to
select other statuses.
3 Press Sel or the PTT button to send the
transmission. The display flashes the
PLEASE WAIT
until the dispatcher acknowledges, at which time alert
tones sound and the display shows
ACK RCVD. The
radio then returns to normal operation.
Press the appropriate Sts # button that you wish to
send. The associated indicator blinks until an
acknowledgment is received, then it lights steadily.
1 Press Sel or the PTT button. A single tone sounds
and the display changes to
PLEASE WAIT, followed
by telephone-type ringing if the receiving unit is in
service.
2 If the receiving unit answers, press the PTT button to
identify yourself and proceed with your call.
OR
If the called unit does not respond, press
Sel or the
PTT button again to leave a Call Alert page message
and your ID.
A single tone followed by four tones sounds if the
called unit acknowledges the page.
1 Press the PTT button to initiate a Private
Conversation I or II call.
2 Pause for a second, then begin the conversation.
3 Press Home or Call to hang up.
1 Press the Page button.
2 Follow the instructions for initiating an Enhanced
Private Conversation to select a unit ID.
3 Press Sel or the PTT button to send a Call Alert page
to the ID in the display,
OR
To send a Call Alert page following an Enhanced
Private Conversation attempt, follow the instructions
for sending an Enhanced Private Conversation call.
Four tones sound and PAGE RCV flashes on the
display.
1 Press either the microphone PTT button or the Call
button to clear the Call Alert state.
Two tones sound and CALL RCV flashes on the
display.
1 Press the Call button.
2 Press the microphone PTT button, and speak into
the microphone.
3 Press Home or Call to hang up.