User's Guide

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Table Of Contents

Contents
For your safety
Menu maps
1 About this guide
- Safety warnings used in this guide
- Related documentation
2 Before using your radio
- For your safety — battery warning
- Attaching labels to the radio or battery
- Charging the battery before first use
- Attaching the battery
- Removing the battery
- Attaching the antenna
- Removing the antenna
- Attaching a belt clip
- Removing a belt clip
- Installing an audio accessory
3 Getting started
- About P25 digital radios
- About the radio controls
- Understanding the radio display
- Understanding the radio indicators
- Using function keys to access frequently used features
- Navigating the radio’s menus
4 Basic operation
- Turning the radio on and off
- Adjusting the speaker volume
- Locking and unlocking the keypad
- Using a wireless headset
- Selecting a zone
- Selecting a channel
- Limiting call time
- Checking recent calls
- Setting and viewing the radio’s time and date
- Updating the radio over the air
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
- About P25 trunking
- Checking that the system is available
- Making a talkgroup call
- Receiving a talkgroup call
- Making an individual call
- Receiving an individual call
- Emergency calls
- Making a phone call
- Unconnected calls
- Failsoft mode operation
- Dynamic regrouping
7 Scanning
- About scanning
- Activating standard scanning
- Activating background scanning
- Activating in-zone scanning
- Activating talkgroup scanning
- Making a call while scanning
- Suspending a channel from a scan group
- Editing a scan group
8 P25 services
- Messages
- Status update
- Status request
- Call alert
- Radio check
- Radio unit monitor
- Radio inhibit and uninhibit
9 Location services
- About location information
- About location statuses
- Viewing location information
- Sending location information
- Receiving and logging location information
- Accessing logged location information
10 Emergency operation
- About emergency calls
- Making a priority call
- Standard emergency mode
- About manual emergency operation
- Accessing emergency location information
- Loneworker monitoring
11 Encryption
- About encryption
- Encrypting calls
- Making an encrypted call
- Receiving an encrypted call
- Changing the radio’s encryption key
- Removing encryption keys from the radio
- Updating encryption keys over-the-air
12 Customizing radio settings
- Extending battery life on a shift
- Changing the volume of all audible indicators
- Changing the volume of keypress tones
- Changing to quiet operation
- Changing to silent operation
- Turning on backlighting
- Adjusting the display contrast
13 Charging and caring for batteries
14 Troubleshooting
- When the radio won’t turn on
- Identifying the radio’s audible tones
- Viewing radio information
- Changing the radio ID
- Running diagnostics tests
- General care
15 Glossary
Simplified Declaration of Conformity
Tait Software Licence Agreement

16 For your safety

the combination may only be used in a Gas Class I

hazardous (classified) location.

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Division 2 rated radios and accessories may only be

used in Division 2 or Zone 2 hazardous (classified)

locations.

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Division 2, Group A radios and accessories may be

used in Division 2, Group B, C, or D areas.

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Any item approved to Group D will limit the radio sys-

tem to Group D areas. For use in a Group A area, all

items must be approved to Group A.

Temperature class

Different ambient temperature ranges apply for the T3

and T4 temperature classes. The item with the most

restrictive temperature range will determine the allowed

temperature range of the radio system. T4-rated radios

and accessories can be used in T3 areas, within the rules

stated above.

Entity parameters

The Entity Concept allows interconnection of IS/NI

equipment with associated equipment when the following

is true:

≥

Uo, Ii

≥

Io, Pi

≥

Po, Ci

≤

Co, Li

≤

Lo, and Li/Ri

≤

Lo/Ro.

The installation must be in accordance with the following

standards:

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National Electrical Code (NEC), ANSI/NFPA 70, Arti-

cles 504 and 505

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Canadian Electrical Code (CEC) Part I, CAS C22.1

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ANSI/ISA-RP12.06.01

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EN/IEC 60079-25

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relevant local regulations.