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
Display Panel Functions—CHAPTER 4
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operate your radio as a fully-networked component of
the OpenSky digital network and carry on rich-featured
communications with similarly networked agencies or
subscribers.
At startup, your M-803 automatically selects the
OpenSky Trunked Protocol (OTP) to provide the full
range of features available on your digital voice and
data network.
On the other hand, if your agency cooperates with
several others in a multi-agency network supported by
OpenSky’s IP backbone, all agencies benefit from the
advantages of the network architecture whether or not
they’ve migrated from older analog equipment to
digital OpenSky radios.
For those occasions when you need to communicate
with radios using older protocols (such as conventional
FM), you can manually change your radio’s operating
mode.
Universal Connectivity
When conditions require it, you can re-configure your
M-803, with a simple menu selection, to access
conventional CTCSS analog FM or APCO Project 25
CAI operations. This is especially helpful when you
need to communicate with users from other agencies or
fleets not completely integrated with OpenSky.
• The principle operating mode currently in use is
the OpenSky Trunked Protocol (OTP). Choose
OTP for full-featured communications with other
digital equipment connected to the OpenSky
network.
• From the Mode Selection Menu, you can also
access OpenSky Conventional FM (OCF) with
Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System
(CTCSS).
• When your Network Administrator initiates a mid-
shift Personality Upgrade or Dynamic Regrouping,
you’ll engage the Over-the-Air Download mode.
Your only indication
that you have logged
on to the network is
the name of your
Talkgroup in the Dwell
Display.