User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Directive 1999/5/EC Declaration of Conformity
- About this guide
- For your safety
- Safety warnings used in this guide
- Radio frequency exposure information
- Controlling your exposure to RF energy
- Compliance with RF energy exposure standards
- Radio frequency emissions limits in the USA
- Unapproved modifications or changes to radio
- Health, safety and electromagnetic compatibility in Europe
- Electromagnetic compatibility in European vehicles
- EN 60950 requirements (25 watt radios)
- Interference with electronic devices
- AS/NZS 4365 requirements
- Frequency band reserved for distress beacons
- Safe radio operation
- High radio surface temperatures
- Radio protection when charging the vehicle battery
- GPS operation
- Your radio’s settings
- Contents
- Getting started
- Basic operation
- Operating in conventional mode
- Operating in MPT trunked mode
- Changing your operating mode
- Checking that your network is available
- Changing your network
- Making a preset call
- About talkgroups and scan groups
- Making a talkgroup call
- Changing group membership
- Making an emergency call
- Dialling a PABX number
- Dialling a PSTN number
- Receiving a call
- Re-establishing a call
- Checking missed calls
- About status messages
- About text messages
- Calls to conventional channels or groups
- Dialling calls in MPT trunked mode
- Troubleshooting
- Tait general software licence agreement
24 Getting started
Radio display symbols
These are some of the symbols you may see on you
radio display:
Symbol Meaning
Received signal strength indicator (RSSI): the more bars, the
stronger the signal being received by your radio
Transmit: your radio is transmitting
Low-power transmit: your radio is transmitting on low power
Silent operation: your radio’s audible tones have been turned off
External alert: external alert is active
Call queuing: call queuing is active
Queued call: there are calls in the call queue
Conventional mode symbols:
Scanning: your radio is monitoring a group of channels for activity
(this symbol is animated)
Monitor or squelch override: monitor or squelch override is active
Repeater talkaround: your radio is operating in repeater
talkaround mode
MPT trunked mode symbols:
MPT network: your radio has access to an MPT network
Flashing: your radio is attempting to access an MPT network
Go: your radio has established a call and you are now able to
speak to the other party