User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- For your safety
- Menu maps
- 1 About this guide
- 2 Before using your radio
- 3 Getting started
- 4 Basic operation
- 5 Operating in conventional mode
- Making a call
- Making an individual call
- Understanding talkgroups
- Making a local call
- Connecting to a telephone network
- Making an emergency call
- Sending a status message
- Receiving calls
- Communicating directly with other radios
- Checking that the channel is clear
- Using the radio in different repeater areas
- Hearing faint and noisy signals
- 6 Operating in P25 trunking mode
- 7 Scanning
- 8 P25 services
- 9 Location services
- 10 Emergency operation
- 11 Encryption
- 12 Customizing radio settings
- 13 Charging and caring for batteries
- 14 Troubleshooting
- 15 Glossary
- Simplified Declaration of Conformity
- Tait Software Licence Agreement
114 Location services
3 Press Exit to exit the location display.
In certain situations, your radio may automatically exit
the location display.
Sending location information
This feature is controlled by a software license
(SFE) and may not be available with your radio.
To send location information, you can:
■ press the PTT key,
■ use a function key, or
■ use the radio menu.
Using the PTT key
Your radio may be configured to send location
information each time you press or release the PTT
key. This feature can be turned on or off using the
Send On PTT menu, and may be active when the
radio is first turned on.
To turn ‘Send on PTT’ off or on:
Location Trk
UTC time:
23:36:20
Exit
■ UTC: Coordinated Universal Time
24 hour clock
Location Trk
Altitude:
34m
Exit
■ The radio’s altitude in metres
above or below mean sea level
MGA: Trk
Zone: 29N
PJ264837
Exit
■ MGA: Map Grid of Australia
coordinate system
■ Zone: UTM zone number
■ PJ: The grid square
■ 264837: Easting and Northing to
the nearest 100 m
MGRS: Trk
59G PM
26406 83789
Exit
■ MGRS: Military Grid Reference
System
■ 59G: UTM zone and band
■ PM: The grid square
■ 26406 83789: Easting and
Northing to the nearest 1 m