User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Front cover
- Directive 1999/5/EC Declaration of Conformity
- For your safety
- Safety warnings used in this guide
- Radio frequency exposure information
- Controlling your exposure to RFenergy
- Compliance with RF energy exposure standards
- Radio frequency emissions limits in theUSA
- Unapproved modifications or changes toradio
- Health, safety and electromagnetic compatibility inEurope
- Electromagnetic compatibility in European vehicles
- Interference with electronic devices
- Frequency band reserved for distressbeacons
- Safe radio operation
- Navigating your radio’s menus
- Contents
- Before using your radio
- Getting started
- Basic operation
- Making and receiving different typesofcalls
- Making an individual or group call
- Resending calls automatically
- Receiving an individual orgroupcall
- Responding to missed calls
- Informing other radio users of your status
- Calling a telephone or a remotedevice
- Making an emergency call
- Activating the automated emergency call feature
- Sending and receiving text messages
- Changing your radio’s settings
- Charging and caring for batteries
- Troubleshooting
- Function key options
- Tait general software licence agreement
- Rear cover
32 Basic operation
Making a call
To make a call:
1 Select the desired channel as described in “Selecting a
channel” on page 29, or “Selecting a channel bank” on
page 30.
2 Check that the channel is clear. If the busy symbol
appears in the display and the status LED is glowing
green, the channel is busy and you may not be able to
make your call.
3 Once the channel is clear, hold the radio so that the
microphone is about 2.5cm (one inch) from your mouth.
4 Press the PTT key to transmit.
5 Speak clearly into the microphone, identifying yourself
and the party you are calling using the call signs you have
been assigned.
While you are transmitting, the LED glows red and the
transmit symbol
appears in the display:
6 Release the PTT key when you have finished talking.
Making a call while the channel is busy
When the busy symbol
appears in the display and the
status LED glows green, there is activity on the channel, even
though you may not be able to hear it. If you try to transmit
when the radio is busy, a low-pitched warning beep sounds.
Activate the monitor function to listen to channel activity.
See“Checking that a channel is clear” on page 37.
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