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
124 Emergency operation
Making a manual emergency call
Warning You will not be able to make a voice call on
the channel until the 3-second emergency alarm has
finished.
1 Press and hold the emergency key for longer than
three seconds.
The radio gives three short beeps, rising in pitch.
Emergency appears in the display, and remains
until the manual emergency call is canceled.
If you receive an acknowledgement from another
radio in your group, the manual emergency call is
canceled, and the message Emergency Acked
briefly appears in the display.
This feature is controlled by a software license
(SFE) and may not be available with your radio.
Receiving a manual emergency call
When your radio receives a manual emergency call,
Emergency appears in the display, along with the
identity of the radio that initiated the emergency call.
A loud repeating emergency alarm sounds for three
seconds. If location information has been sent,
Location appears in the display.
Emergency
Menu
Emergency
Acked
NWME42T1
alias of
acknowledging radio
Emergency
NWBE22M1
MenuLocation
radio in
emergency
location information
available