User's Manual

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Contents
For your safety
Menu maps
1 About this guide
- Safety warnings used in this guide
- Related documentation
2 Before using your radio
- For your safety — battery warning
- Attaching labels to the radio or battery
- Charging the battery before first use
- Attaching the battery
- Removing the battery
- Attaching the antenna
- Removing the antenna
- Attaching a belt clip
- Removing a belt clip
- Installing an audio accessory
3 Getting started
- About P25 digital radios
- About the radio controls
- Understanding the radio display
- Understanding the radio indicators
- Using function keys to access frequently used features
- Navigating the radio’s menus
4 Basic operation
- Turning the radio on and off
- Adjusting the speaker volume
- Locking and unlocking the keypad
- Using a wireless headset
- Selecting a zone
- Selecting a channel
- Limiting call time
- Checking recent calls
5 Operating in conventional mode
- Making calls
- Receiving calls
- Communicating directly with other radios
- Checking that the channel is clear
- Using the radio in different repeater areas
- Hearing faint and noisy signals
6 Operating in P25 trunking mode
- About P25 trunking
- Checking that the system is available
- Making a talkgroup call
- Receiving a talkgroup call
- Making an individual call
- Receiving an individual call
- Emergency calls
- Making a phone call
- Unconnected calls
- Failsoft mode operation
- Dynamic regrouping
7 Scanning
- About scanning
- Activating standard scanning
- Activating background scanning
- Activating in-zone scanning
- Activating talkgroup scanning
- Making a call while scanning
- Suspending a channel from a scan group
- Editing a scan group
8 P25 services
- Messages
- Status update
- Status request
- Call alert
- Radio check
- Radio unit monitor
- Radio inhibit and uninhibit
9 GPS location services
- About GPS location information
- About GPS status information
- Viewing GPS information
- Sending GPS information
- Receiving and logging GPS information
- Accessing logged GPS information
10 Emergency operation
- About emergency calls
- Making a priority call
- Standard emergency mode
- About manual emergency operation
- Accessing emergency GPS location information
- Loneworker monitoring
11 Encryption
- About encryption
- Encrypting calls
- Making an encrypted call
- Receiving an encrypted call
- Changing the radio’s encryption key
- Removing encryption keys from the radio
- Updating encryption keys over-the-air
- Using an encryption demonstration key
12 Customizing radio settings
- Extending battery life on a shift
- Changing the volume of all audible indicators
- Changing the volume of keypress tones
- Changing to quiet operation
- Changing to silent operation
- Turning on backlighting
- Adjusting the display contrast
13 Charging and caring for batteries
- About the chargers
- Special conditions when using IS radios
- Before using the charger
- Charging the battery
- Maintaining battery life and performance
- Storing batteries
- Disposing of batteries
14 Troubleshooting
- About troubleshooting
- System error message
- When your radio won’t turn on
- Identifying the radio’s audible tones
- Viewing radio information
- Changing the radio ID
- Running diagnostics tests
- General care
15 Glossary
Index
Directive 1999/5/CE Declaration of Conformity
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Getting started 39

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Understanding the radio

indicators

The status LED indicator and the radio’s audible

tones—together with the radio display—all combine to

give you information about the state of your radio.

The most common way the indicators work is

described in the following sections.

The way these indicators behave may be

affected by the way your radio is programmed.

Status indicators

Color Meaning

Red

(transmit)

Glowing: your radio is transmitting

Flashing: your transmit timer is about to

expire

Green

(receive)

Glowing: the current channel is busy

Flashing: you have received a call or

monitor is active

status LED