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
44 Getting started
Audible tones
The radio uses audible tones to alert you to its status:
■ Radio controls and keypress tones—the tones
and beeps you hear when you press your radio’s
keys or use the controls.
■ Incoming call tone—when the radio is receiving
a call.
■ Warning tones—when there is an error, or the bat-
tery is low, for example.
Warning If quiet or silent mode is turned on, you will
not hear any alert tones.
Some of the more common audible tones are
described below:
Tone Meaning
One short
beep
■ Valid keypress: The action you have
attempted is permitted.
■ Function activated: A function has
been turned on (using either the Main
menu or a function key).
One short,
low-pitched
beep
Function deactivated: A function has been
turned off (using either the Main menu or
a function key).
One long, low-
pitched beep
■ Invalid keypress: the action you have
attempted is not permitted
■ Transmission inhibited: you have
attempted to transmit, but for some
reason you cannot make a call at
this time
Two short
beeps
■ Radio turned on: The radio is powered
on and ready to use.
■ Radio is revived: The radio has been
made operable by your service pro-
vider.
One short,
high-pitched
beep
Radio is stunned: The radio has been
made inoperable by your service provider.