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
Changing your radio’s settings 53
2 Short press the menu key , then scroll through the
available menu options until PTTLOCK is displayed.
3 The current status (
LOCKED or UNLOCKED) is displayed
underneath.
4 Short press the menu key to lock and unlock the PTT key.
5 Long press the menu key to exit menu mode.
Answering a call
If a call is received while the keypad is locked, press any key
to answer.
Choosing a DTMF Dialling Mode
Note: This setting applies to TP8120 radios only.
DTMF dialling has two modes: normal and buffered:
■ Normal: Each character in DTMF string is transmitted as
the key is pressed.
■ Buffered: The DTMF string is transmitted after all the
characters in the string have been entered.
To select normal or buffered dialling:
1 Enter the user settings menu as described at the
beginning of this section.
2 Short press the menu key , then scroll through the
available menu options until
DTMF is displayed. The
current status (
NORMAL or UBUFFERED) is displayed
underneath.
3 Short press the menu key to select normal or
buffered dialling.
4 Long press the menu key to exit menu mode.
Bypassing Repeater Stations (Communicating
Directly with Other Radios)
If you are out of range of a repeater you can communicate
directly with another radio by using a feature called ‘repeater
talkaround’.