User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- For your safety
- Menu maps
- 1 About this guide
- 2 Before using your radio
- 3 Getting started
- 4 Basic operation
- 5 Operating in conventional mode
- 6 Operating in trunked mode
- 7 Dialing calls in trunked mode
- 8 GPS location services
- 9 Loneworker monitoring
- 10 Encryption
- 11 Customizing radio settings
- 12 Charging and caring for batteries
- 13 Troubleshooting
- Directive 1999/5/CE Declaration of Conformity
- Tait Software Licence Agreement
58 Operating in conventional mode
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Making a call
1 Select the required channel or scan group.
You may need to select the zone you want first,
then select the channel or group from that zone.
2 Check that the channel is clear. If the LED is
glowing green, the channel is busy and you may
not be able to transmit.
3 Once the channel is clear (the green LED is off),
hold the radio so that the microphone is about one
inch (2.5 cm) from your mouth and press the PTT
key to transmit.
4 Speak clearly into the microphone and release the
PTT key when you have finished talking.
While you are transmitting, the LED glows red and
the transmit icon appears on the display.
Limiting call time
Your radio may limit the amount of time you can talk
(transmit) continuously. This is known as the ‘transmit
timer’ or ‘time-out timer’ and allows other radio users
to make calls on that channel.
The message Transmit Timeout Imminent appears
on the display.
If the transmit timer has timed out, you must release
the PTT before you can transmit again.
Your radio may be unable to transmit for a short
time after the transmit timer has expired.