User's Manual

Advanced Features
English
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Receiving and Making a Selective Call (ASTRO
Conventional Only)
This feature allows you to receive a call from or to call a specific
individual. It is intended to provide privacy and to eliminate the
annoyance of having to listen to conversations that are of no
interest to you.
Receiving a Selective Call
Procedure:
1 When you receive a Selective Call, you hear two alert tones
and the LED lights up solid yellow. The call received icons
blinks and the display alternates between CALL RECEIVED
and the home display.
2 Press the Menu Select button below CALL within 20
seconds after the call indicators begin. The display shows
the alias or ID number of the sender.
3 The speaker unmutes.
4 Hold the microphone vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0 cm)
from your mouth.
5 Press and hold the PTT button to talk. Release the PTT
button to listen.
6 Press H to return to the Home screen.
Note: If you press PTT button before pressing the Menu
Select button directly below CALL, your conversation
will be heard by all members of the talk group.
If 20 seconds pass before you press the Menu Select button
directly below the
CALL , you will not respond privately to the call
just received. Instead, you initiate a Private Call. See “Making a
Selective Call” on page 33.
Making a Selective Call
Procedure:
Press the preprogrammed Quick Access (One-Touch)
Selective Call button to dial the preprogrammed ID and
proceed to Step 4.
OR
Follow the procedure below.
1 < or > to CALL.
2 Press the Menu Select button directly below CALL. The
display shows the last transmitted or received ID.
3 Press the Menu Select button directly below CNTS to scroll
through and select the required ID.
OR
Press the Menu Select button directly below LIST to go to
the last number dialed.
OR
< or > to the required ID.
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