Operator's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Front Cover
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to the OpenSky Network
- Network Organization
- Getting Started
- Display Screen Functions
- How to set your Dwell Display Selection
- How to set your Operational Mode
- How to set your Active Profile
- How to set your Active Talkgroup
- How to Assign Priority to a Talkgroup
- How to Lock Out a Listen Group
- How to Unlock a Listen Group
- How to set your Scan Mode
- How to Change the Channel
- How to Enable or Disable Side Tones
- How to Change Screen Brightness
- Basic Radio Operations
- How to Turn Your Radio On
- How to Log On to the Network
- How to Read the Self-Test Results
- How to Turn Your Radio Off
- How to Change the Volume
- How to Take a Voice Call
- How to Make a Voice Call
- What the Beeping Means
- How to Place a Talkback Call
- How to Place an Emergency Call
- Advanced Radio Operations
- How to Re-Provision for an Emergency
- How to Place Talkaround Calls
- CH-103 Control Head
- VTac Vehicular Tactical Network
- Indexes and Tables
- I
- Index
CHAPTER 2—Network Organization
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You may only have one talk group, but that doesn’t
keep you from tuning in different profiles to monitor a
different “bank of channels.”
Talkback Scanning
While you cannot initiate contact with users in your
“listen groups,” you can reply to their incoming calls
using Talkback Scan mode.
With your radio in Talkback Mode, your display screen
will show the identity of your most recent incoming
caller. Press the Push-to-Talk button on your handset
and send your voice reply.
Radio Personality
Your radio personality is a collection of up to 16
profiles. The entire personality is organized by your
network administrator and is unique to your
communication needs.
When you activate your radio at the beginning of a
shift and sign on with your unique identity code, your
radio is assigned its IP address and “provisioned” with
a radio personality that identifies the other users on the
network with whom you are most likely to need to
communicate by voice.
Your overall radio personality is organized into User
Groups (talk groups and listen groups), similar to a
channel in a conventional FM radio system. These user
groups are then organized into Profiles (collections of
up to 16 user groups), similar to banks of channels.
Finally, as many as 16 profiles make up your
personality.
If an emergency prompts
your Network
Administrator to enact a
Dynamic Regrouping of
user groups, you’ll be
prompted to conduct a
mid-shift log-on to re-
provision your radio with
an updated personality that
includes a pre-
programmed or ad hoc
emergency user profile.