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
32 Basic operation
If you do not know your PIN or
you receive a wrong PIN message,
consult your radio provider or
administrator.
Adjusting the speaker volume
The volume control also changes the volume level of the
radio’s audible indicators.
Note: Your radio may be programmed with a minimum
volume level.
Standard control head
Rotate the volume control clockwise to increase the speaker
volume and counterclockwise to decrease the volume.
Hand-held control head
Press to increase the speaker volume and
to decrease
the volume.
Turning on control-head backlighting
The radio’s display and keypad light up when backlighting is
on. This normally only happens when a key is pressed or a
call is received. There are two ways you may be able to
change the way backlighting operates on your radio:
■ turn on backlighting momentarily, using a programmed
function key, or
■ change backlighting between on and off, using either a
programmed function key or the Main menu.
Turning backlighting on momentarily by using
a function key
You may be able to use a programmed function key to turn
backlighting on momentarily. Backlighting remains on for a
few seconds and then turns off.
Alternatively, the function key may be programmed so that:
Wrong PIN,
try again