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
Basic operation 31
Basic operation
This section describes the basic operation of your radio.
The following topics are covered in this section:
■ turning the radio on and off
■ entering your personal identification number
■ adjusting the speaker volume
■ turning on control-head backlighting
■ changing the level of control-head backlighting
■ changing the contrast of the radio display
■ about GPS information
■ about the lone worker feature
Turning the radio on and off
Give a long press of the on/off key to turn the radio either
on or off.
When the radio is first turned on, the red, green and amber
LEDs flash briefly and the radio gives two short beeps. A brief
message may appear in the display.
Note: The hand-held control head may be configured to turn
on with a PTT press.
Entering your personal identification number
You may need to enter a personal
identification number (PIN) before
you can use your radio. If the
message Enter PIN appears, enter
your assigned PIN.
Once you have entered your PIN correctly, the radio sounds
two short beeps and normal operation is now possible.
Enter PIN