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
Send an Emergency Alarm or Call
Send a Status Transmission
Send a Direct-Entry Keyboard Status
Transmission
Send a Direct-Entry Enhanced Private
Conversation Call
Initiate a Call Alert Page
Answer a Call Alert Page
Press the emergency actuator (Emer button,
footswitch, hidden pushbutton) to begin an emergency
transmission.
For conventional modes, a silent or non-silent
emergency alarm data transmission is sent.
For trunked modes, emergency call (priority access to
a voice channel), silent or non-silent emergency
alarm, or emergency alarm and call is entered.
Depending on your radio’s programming, one of the
emergency sequences described in the table below
occur.
Alarm Type Indications/Actions
Non-Silent A tone sounds and the display flashes
EMERGNCY. When acknowledged, four
more tones sound and the display
shows
ACK RCVD, then the radio
returns to normal operation.
Silent The audio is muted and no display
changes take place during the alarm.
Press the PTT button, or press and
hold the emergency button to stop the
emergency condition and unmute the
radio.
Call (Trunked
Modes only)
A tone sounds and the display flashes
EMERGNCY.
Press the PTT button and talk.
After completing the call, press and
hold the emergency actuator until a
tone sounds to return to normal
operation.
Alarm and Call After the display shows ACK RCVD (see
Non-Silent Alarm above), the radio has
priority voice-channel access.
Press the PTT button and talk.
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 the first status name.
2 Press the Mode rocker button to select other
statuses.
3 Press Sel to send the transmission. The display
flashes the selected status name 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
PLS WAIT, followed by
telephone-type ringing if the receiving unit is in
service.
Alarm Type Indications/Actions
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 Page button.
2 Follow the instructions for initiating a Private
Conversation to select a unit ID.
3 Press Sel or the PTT button to send a Call Alert page
to the displayed ID,
OR
To send a Call Alert page following an Enhanced
Private Conversation attempt, follow the instructions
for sending a direct-entry Enhanced Private
Conversation call.
Four tones sound and PAGE RCV flashes on the
display. The tone and display repeat every five
seconds.
1 Press the PTT button,
OR
Initiate an Enhanced Private Conversation call to the
caller.