User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- RF ENERGY EXPOSURE AWARENESS AND CONTROL INFORMATION, AND OPERATIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FCC OCCUPATIONAL USE REQUIREMENTS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- SECTION 1 FEATURES
- SECTION 2 CONTROLS AND DISPLAY
- SECTION 3 GENERAL OPERATION
- SECTION 4 RADIO-WIDE FEATURES
- SECTION 5 CONVENTIONAL MODE FEATURES
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Monitoring Before Transmitting
- 5.3 Monitor Mode
- 5.4 Busy Channel Lockout
- 5.5 Call Guard Squelch
- 5.6 Penalty Timer
- 5.7 Conversation Timer
- 5.8 Repeater Talk-Around
- 5.9 Displaying Transmit/Receive Frequency
- 5.10 Emergency Alarm and Call
- 5.11 Conventional Mode Scanning
- 5.12 Standard Conventional Calls
- 5.13 DTMF/ANI Signaling
- 5.14 Single Tone Encoder
- 5.15 MDC1200 Compatibility
- 5.16 Clone Mode
- 5.17 Project 25 Mode Features
- 5.18 Keypad Programming
- SECTION 6 SMARTNET/SMARTZONE/P25 TRUNKED FEATURES
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Analog and Digital Operation
- 6.3 Viewing Unit ID
- 6.4 Standard Group Calls
- 6.5 Private (Unit-To-Unit) Calls
- 6.6 Telephone Calls
- 6.7 Call Alert
- 6.8 Messaging
- 6.9 Sending Status Conditions
- 6.10 Emergency Alarm and Call
- 6.11 Failsoft Operation
- 6.12 SMARTNET/Smartzone/P25 Trunked Scanning Features
- 6.13 Dynamic Regrouping
- 6.14 SmartZone and P25 Trunked Unique Features
- SECTION 7 MISCELLANEOUS
- SECTION 8 DETERMINING AVAILABLE OPTIONS
- SECTION 9 PASSWORD DESCRIPTION
- SECTION 10 SECURE COMMUNICATION (ENCRYPTION)
- INDEX
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SAFETY INFORMATION
• Federal Communications Commission Regulations 6
• Compliance with RF Exposure Standards . . . . . . . . 6
• RF Exposure Compliance and Control Guidelines
and Operating Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Contact Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Electromagnetic Interference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Usage Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Battery Disposal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1 FEATURES
1.1 General Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2 Conventional Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3 SMARTNET/SmartZone Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4 Project 25 Trunked Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 CONTROLS AND DISPLAY
2.1 Front Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Top Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Side Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4 Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3 GENERAL OPERATION
3.1 Turning Power On and Setting Volume . . . . . . . . 13
Power Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Standard and Soft Power Down . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting Volume Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2 Power-Up Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Password Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3 Zone and Channel Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4 Low Battery Indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Battery Charging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.5 Backlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.6 Keypad Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.7 Setting Squelch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.8 Transmit Disable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.9 Radio Operating Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Conventional Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SMARTNET/SmartZone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
P25 Trunked Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Systems, Channels, and Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4 RADIO-WIDE FEATURES
4.1 Option Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2 Menu Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.3 Time-Out Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4 Home Zone/Channel Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.5 Power Output Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.6 Alert Tone Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.7 Surveillance Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.8 Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Priority Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Radio Wide Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Scan Hold Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Transmitting in the Scan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Nuisance Channel Add/Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.9 Scan Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Priority Scan Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Radio Wide Scan Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5 CONVENTIONAL MODE FEATURES
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.2 Monitoring Before Transmitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.3 Monitor Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.4 Busy Channel Lockout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.5 Call Guard Squelch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Call Guard Squelch Enable/Disable . . . . . . . . . 28
Tone Call Guard Squelch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Digital Call Guard Squelch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Selective Squelch Code Select. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.6 Penalty Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.7 Conversation Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.8 Repeater Talk-Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
5.9 Displaying Transmit/Receive Frequency . . . . . . . 30
5.10 Emergency Alarm and Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Emergency Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Emergency Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Emergency Man-Down Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.11 Conventional Mode Scanning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Transmitting in Scan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Priority Channel Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5.12
Standard Conventional Calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.13 DTMF/ANI Signaling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.14 Single Tone Encoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.15 MDC1200 Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34