User's Guide

6.2.2
Selective Call (ASTRO Conventional Only)
A Selective Call is a call from an individual radio to another individual radio with privacy.
6.2.2.1
Receiving a Selective Call
When and where to use: When you receive a Selective Call, you hear two alert tones and the yellow
LED illuminates while the green LED blinks. The call received icons blink and the display alternates
between Call received and the home display.
The speaker unmutes.
Procedure:
1 Hold the microphone vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0 cm) from your mouth.
2 Press and hold the PTT button to talk. Release the PTT button to listen.
NOTICE: If you press PTT button before pressing the Menu Select button directly below
Call, your conversation is broadcasted to all members of the talkgroup.
If 20 seconds pass before you press the Menu Select button directly below the Call,
you are not responding privately to the call. Instead, you initiate a Selective Call. See
Making a Selective Call on page 41.
6.2.2.2
Making a Selective Call
Prerequisites: Your radio must be preprogrammed for you to use this feature.
Procedure:
1 Perform one of the following actions:
• To access this feature by using a preprogrammed button, press the preprogrammed
Selective Call button to dial the preprogrammed ID. Proceed to step 3.
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or to Call, and press the Menu Select button directly below Call.
The display shows the last transmitted or received ID.
2 To select the required ID, perform one of the following actions:
• Press the Menu Select button directly below Cnts to scroll through and select the required
ID.
• Press the Menu Select button directly below List to go to the last number dialed.
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or to the required ID.
• Use the keypad to enter the required ID.
3 Hold the microphone vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0 cm) from your mouth.
4 Press and hold the PTT button to start the Selective Call.
The display shows the ID of the target radio.
5 Release the PTT button to listen.
6 Press to return to the Home screen.
If you do not press button to hang up, your radio remains in Selective Call state with the
other unit. You will miss all subfleet traffic and incoming phone calls.
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