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

84 Operating in P25 trunking mode

Emergency calls

In an emergency, you can summon help by sending

an emergency call. When an emergency call is

initiated, the radio enters ‘emergency mode’. For more

information on emergency mode, see "Standard

emergency mode" on page 122.

Making an emergency call

You can make an emergency call using the

emergency function key (function key 1).

■ Press the function or emergency key to activate

emergency mode.

The message Emergency mode appears and the

radio sounds three short beeps, rising in pitch.

Receiving an emergency call

When you receive an emergency call, your radio

displays the caller’s name or identity and sounds a

long beep.

Emergency mode

Emergency call

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