User`s guide
Examples: Not exiting phone mode after a call (radio 
cannot receive fleet or subfleet calls), transmitting in 
receive-only conventional mode, trying to select a dynamic 
mode when no dynamic ID assignment has been made.
ALERT TONES 
Type of Tone Name Explanation
1 Low-Pitched 
Tone
Invalid Key 
Alert
Feature button 
pressed is not valid 
in selected mode, or 
a Call Alert or 
emergency alarm 
was not 
acknowledged.
1 High-Pitched 
Tone
Central 
Acknowledge 
or Valid Key
Central controller 
has received request 
for Call Alert or 
emergency alarm 
transmission.
You pressed a valid 
key.
4 High-Pitched 
Tones
Dispatcher or 
Mobile Unit 
Acknowledge
Dispatcher is 
acknowledging your 
emergency 
transmission. Mobile 
unit has received 
your Call Alert.
5 High-Pitched 
Tones
The above two 
acknowledge tones, 
heard in tandem.
2 High-Pitched 
Tones
Private 
Conversation
You have an 
incoming call. Press 
Call, then the PTT 
button, then talk.
4 High-Pitched 
Tones every 6 
seconds
Call Alert Page Call Alert page has 
been received.
Phone-Type 
Busy Tone
(when pressing 
the PTT button)
System Busy All system radio 
channels in use. 
Release the PTT 
button, and wait for 
callback.
2 Short High-
Tones (after 
requesting a 
busy channel) 
upon pressing 
the PTT button)
Automatic Call 
Back or Talk 
Permit
Channel is available 
for previously 
requested 
transmission.
System is accepting 
your transmission.
Low-Pitched 
Tone (upon 
pressing the 
PTT button 
during Transmit) 
(Operation 
Error)
Talk Prohibit/
Out-of-Range 
or Time-Out 
Timer or Illegal 
Mode
Out of trunked radio 
system range or 
system is out of 
service.
Present transmission 
will soon be disabled. 
You have entered a 
mode where normal 
system traffic will be 
missed, or you 
attempted something 
that is not allowed. 
(See examples 
below.)
High-Pitched 
Tone every 10 
seconds in 
unmuted receive 
condition
Failsoft System central 
controller failure. The 
radio reverts from 
trunked operation to 
operation similar to a 
conventional 
repeater.
Others may share 
the channel.
ALERT TONES (Continued)
Type of Tone Name Explanation










