User`s guide

Basic Radio

Programming Tutorial

Now that the hardware and software installation is complete and the

RSS is up and running, you are ready to program an ASTRO radio. The

tutorial that follows will walk you through the procedure of

programming speciﬁc features into a radio. The three tutorials are:

• Programming an ASTRO basic 16-channel Conventional radio and

saving the radio’s personality to codeplug and archive ﬁles.

• Programming an ASTRO Trunked radio.

• Cloning (copying) the personality data from an archive ﬁle of one

already programmed radio to other radios. Cloning is performed

when there is a need for multiple radios to be programmed with

the same set of radio features and functions.

In each tutorial, the desired features for a particular application will be

listed along with an overview (in a list format) of the major steps

involved in programming the radio. These will be followed by detailed

programming procedures.

Programming a

Basic 16-Channel

ASTRO

Conventional Radio

The tutorial assumes that the RSS is up and running and that you are

at the MAIN MENU. (Refer to Section 1 for the RSS installation

procedure.) Remember that

displays help information about the

currently highlighted ﬁeld or the current screen. Press

F10

to back out

of the RSS one menu level at a time and

Esc

to return to the MAIN

MENU.

Desired Features

Assume that the following features need to be programmed into the

radio:

• 16 Transmit/Receive Frequencies, Analog only, Digital only, and

mixed mode channels

• Private-Line/Digital Private-Line (TPL/DPL) Codes, and ASTRO

Network IDs

• Scan is to be assigned to the concentric switch and two scan lists

need to be created

• Telephone Operation needs to be enabled (

for full keypad models

only

)