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
Operating in conventional mode 65
(Depending on how your radio is programmed, you
may be able to press a function key or use your
Quick Access menu to select individual calls.)
2 Scroll to the person you want to call and press the
PTT key to make the call immediately.
3 Alternatively, scroll to the person you want to call
and press Select.
The message Call...? briefly appears on the
display.
4 Press the PTT key to make the call.
Understanding talkgroups
This feature is available for digital channels only.
A talkgroup is a collection of radio users with whom
you want to have private conversations. For example,
a state's public safety agencies could have the
following talkgroups:
■ Local talkgroups—used by a specific agency to
communicate within their own local agency. It may
even be made up of a county of public safety offi-
cers.
■ Regional talkgroups—used by large state agen-
cies that have regional divisions.
■ Statewide talkgroups—used by an agency to com-
municate with public safety members in another
region. Statewide talkgroups, as their name sug-
gests, enable public safety agencies to communi-
cate with each other from one end of the state to
the other.
Individual call
Car 2
Car 1
SelectCancel
Call...?
Car 2
MenuCancel