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
ASTRO XTL 5000 Digital Mobile Radio with W4, W5, W7, and W9 7
Introduction
Sound similar
to a telephone
busy signal
System Busy Indicates, when you press the
microphone push-to-talk (PTT) button,
that you cannot transmit because all
system radio channels are in use.
Release the PTT button and wait for call
back.
A series of
three short,
high-pitched
tones
Automatic Call
Back
Indicate that a channel is now available
for your previously requested
transmission.
A series of
three short,
high-pitched
tones (same
as automatic
call back)
Talk Permit
(optional)
Indicate, when you press the
microphone PTT button, that the system
is accepting your transmission.
Continuous,
low-pitched
tone
Talk-Prohibit/
Out-of-Range
Indicates, when you press the
microphone PTT button, that either you
are out of the range of the trunked radio
system, or the system is out of service,
or the channel is busy with the Smart
PTT feature enabled.
Single, high-
pitched tone
every ten
seconds
Failsoft In an unmuted receive condition,
indicates a trunked system central
controller failure. The radio reverts from
trunked operation to a system similar to
conventional radio repeater operation.
Other system users can be heard
sharing the channel.
Tone Type Name Description