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
36 Basic operation
Hearing all activity on a channel
Squelch override allows you to hear all activity on a channel
no matter how faint or noisy. This setting is useful when a
caller is very hard to hear.
To turn squelch override on and off:
■ Press the assigned function key.
OR
1 Long press the menu key
to enter menu mode (if the
radio displays a submenu option, press the clear key to
enter the main menu).
2 Scroll through the main menu options using the arrow
keys
until USER SETTINGS is displayed.
3 Scroll through the user setting menu options until
SQ
OVRD
is displayed (the radio will display OFF or ON as the
current setting).
4 Short press the menu key to turn squelch override on
and off.
5 Long press the menu key menu to exit menu mode.
Note: Squelch override cannot be activated when a scan
group is selected, and is automatically turned off when you
change to a scan group channel.