PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL TWO-WAY RADIO MOTOTRBO™ DP4400/DP4401 NON-DISPLAY PORTABLE USER GUIDE EN DE FR IT ES TU PL RU AR
Contents Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Product Safety and RF Exposure Compliance . . .iv Software Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Computer Software Copyrights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Handling Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 How to Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contents Making a Radio Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a Call with the Channel Selector Knob . . Making a Group Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a Private Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a Selective Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making an All Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stopping a Radio Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talkaround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contents Turning the Option Board Feature(s) On or Off . . 36 Turning the Voice Operating Transmission (VOX) Feature On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Turning Radio Tones/Alerts On or Off . . . . . . . . . 37 Checking the Battery Strength . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Voice Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Intelligent Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Important Safety Information Software Version Product Safety and RF Exposure Compliance All the features described in the following sections are supported by the radio's software version R02.04.00. Important Safety Information Before using this product, read the operating instructions for safe usage contained in the Product Safety and RF Exposure booklet enclosed with your radio. ATTENTION! This radio is restricted to occupational use only to satisfy FCC/ICNIRP RF energy exposure requirements.
Computer Software Copyrights This voice coding Technology is licensed solely for use within this Communications Equipment. The user of this Technology is explicitly prohibited from attempting to decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble the Object Code, or in any other way convert the Object Code into a human-readable form. U.S. Pat. Nos. #5,870,405, #5,826,222, #5,754,974, #5,701,390, #5,715,365, #5,649,050, #5,630,011, #5,581,656, #5,517,511, #5,491,772, #5,247,579, #5,226,084 and #5,195,166.
Handling Precautions The MOTOTRBO Series Digital Portable radio meets IP57 specifications, allowing the radio to withstand adverse field conditions such as being submersed in water. • If the radio has been submersed in water, shake the radio well to remove any water that may be trapped inside the speaker grille and microphone port. Trapped water could cause decreased audio performance.
Getting Started How to Use This Guide This User Guide covers the basic operation of the MOTOTRBO Non-Display Portables. However, your dealer or system administrator may have customized your radio for your specific needs. Check with your dealer or system administrator for more information. Throughout this publication, the icons below are used to indicate features supported in either the conventional Analog mode or conventional Digital mode: Indicates a conventional Analog Mode-Only feature.
Charging the Battery Preparing Your Radio for Use Preparing Your Radio for Use Assemble your radio by following these steps: Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attaching the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attaching the Antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attaching the Belt Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attaching the Universal Connector Cover (Dust Cover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Attaching the Battery Attaching the Antenna With the radio turned off, set the antenna in its receptacle and turn clockwise. To remove the antenna, turn the antenna counterclockwise. If antenna needs to be replaced, ensure that only MOTOTRBO antennas are used. Neglecting this will damage your radio. Preparing Your Radio for Use Align the battery with the rails on the back of the radio. Press the battery firmly, and slide upward until the latch snaps into place. Slide battery latch into lock position.
Attaching the Belt Clip Preparing Your Radio for Use Align the grooves on the clip with those on the battery and press downward until you hear a click. To remove the clip, press the belt clip tab away from the battery using a key. Then slide the clip upward and away from the radio. 4 English Attaching the Universal Connector Cover (Dust Cover) The universal connector is located on the antenna side of the radio. It is used to connect MOTOTRBO accessories to the radio.
Powering Up the Radio To increase the volume, turn the On/Off/Volume Control Knob clockwise. A brief tone sounds, indicating that the power up test is successful. NOTE: There is no power up tone if the radio tones/alerts function is disabled (see Turning Radio Tones/Alerts On or Off on page 37). If your radio does not power up, check your battery. Make sure that it is charged and properly attached. If your radio still does not power up, contact your dealer.
Identifying Radio Controls Identifying Radio Controls 6 Take a moment to review the following: Radio Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6 Programmable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7 Push-To-Talk (PTT) Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8 Switching Between Conventional Analog and Digital Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 IP Site Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Programmable Buttons Voice Announcement for Channel – Plays zone and channel announcement voice messages for the current channel. This function is unavailable when Voice Announcement is disabled. • Short press – Pressing and releasing rapidly. Emergency – Depending on the programming, initiates or cancels an emergency alarm or call. • Long press – Pressing and holding for the programmed Intelligent Audio On/Off – Toggles Intelligent Audio on or off. duration. • Hold down – Keeping the button pressed.
Permanent Monitor*‡– Monitors a selected channel for all radio traffic until function is disabled. Assignable Settings or Utility Functions All Tones/Alerts – Toggles all tones and alerts on or off. Privacy – Toggles privacy on or off. Repeater/Talkaround*‡ – Toggles between using a repeater and communicating directly with another radio. Squelch normal. Scan*‡ – Toggles scan on or off.
• While a call is not in progress, the PTT button is used to make a new call (see Making a Radio Call on page 18). Switching Between Conventional Analog and Digital Mode Sidetone is enabled, wait until the short alert tone ends before talking.
IP Site Connect This feature allows your radio to extend conventional communication beyond the reach of a single site, by connecting to different available sites which are connected via an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Identifying Radio Controls When the radio moves out of range from one site and into the range of another, it connects to the new site's repeater to send or receive calls/data transmissions. Depending on your settings, this is done automatically or manually.
Linked Capacity Plus Linked Capacity Plus allows your radio to extend trunking communication beyond the reach of a single site, by connecting to different available sites which are connected via an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It also provides an increase in capacity by efficiently utilizing the combined available number of programmed channels supported by each of the available sites.
Double blinking green – Radio is receiving a privacy-enabled Identifying Status Indicators Your radio indicates its operational status through the following: LED Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 12 Audio Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 13 Indicator Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Indicator Tones Low pitched tone Positive Indicator Tone Negative Indicator Tone Alert tones provide you with audible indications of the radio’s status or the radio’s response to data received. Continuous Tone A monotone sound. Sounds continuously until termination. Periodic Tone Repetitive Tone Sounds periodically depending on the duration set by the radio. Tone starts, stops, and repeats itself. A single tone that repeats itself until it is terminated by the user.
Receiving and Making Calls You hear a negative indicator tone, indicating the radio has switched from Zone 2 to Zone 1. Once you understand how your MOTOTRBO Portable is configured, you are ready to use your radio. Selecting a Channel Receiving and Making Calls Use this navigation guide to familiarize yourself with the basic Call features: Selecting a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting a Radio Channel, Subscriber ID, or Group ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Receiving and Responding to a Radio Call To receive a call made to a group of users, your radio must be configured as part of that group. Procedure: LED Indicator 1 The LED blinks green. Your radio unmutes and the incoming call sounds through the radio's speaker. 2 To respond, hold the radio vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0 cm) from your mouth. 3 The LED lights up solid green while the radio is transmitting and blinks when the radio is receiving.
6 Release the PTT button to listen. 7 If there is no voice activity for a predetermined period of time, the call ends. 4 Press the PTT button to respond to the call. The LED lights up solid green. 5 Wait for the Talk Permit Tone to finish (if enabled) and speak clearly into the microphone. See Making a Group Call on page 18 for details on making a Group Call. 6 Release the PTT button to listen.
Receiving and Responding to a Selective Call Procedure: When you receive a Selective Call: 1 The LED blinks green. 2 Hold the radio vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0 cm) from your mouth. Your radio unmutes and the incoming call sounds through the radio's speaker. 3 If the Channel Free Indication feature is enabled, you hear a short alert tone the moment the transmitting radio releases the PTT button, indicating the channel is free for you to respond. 4 Press the PTT button to respond to the call.
Making a Radio Call Procedure: 1 Select the channel with the active group alias or ID. See After selecting your channel, you can select a subscriber alias or ID, or group alias or ID by using: • The Channel Selector Knob Selecting a Channel on page 14. OR Press the programmed One Touch Access button. 2 Hold the radio vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.
Making a Private Call There are two types of Private Calls. The first type, where a radio presence check is performed prior to setting up the call, while the other sets up the call immediately. Only one of these call types can be programmed to your radio by your dealer. You hear a negative indicator tone, when you make a Private Call via the One Touch Access button or the Channel Selector Knob, if this feature is not enabled. Use the Quick Text Message or Call Alert features to contact an individual radio.
4 Wait for the Talk Permit Tone to finish (if enabled) and speak clearly into the microphone. 5 Release the PTT button to listen. When the target radio responds, the LED blinks green. Receiving and Making Calls 6 If the Channel Free Indication feature is enabled, you hear a short alert tone the moment the target radio releases the PTT button, indicating the channel is free for you to respond. Press the PTT button to respond.
Stopping a Radio Call You can continue to communicate when your repeater is not operating, or when your radio is out of the repeater’s range but within talking range of other radios. This is called “talkaround”. Your radio must be programmed to allow you to use this feature. NOTE: This feature is not applicable in Capacity Plus and Linked Capacity Plus. Procedure: Procedure: While on the required channel: 1 Press the programmed Repeater/Talkaround button.
Monitoring Features Receiving and Making Calls Monitoring a Channel Permanent Monitor Use the Permanent Monitor feature to continuously monitor a selected channel for activity. Use the Monitor feature to make sure a channel is free before transmitting. NOTE: This feature is not applicable in Capacity Plus and Linked Capacity Plus. NOTE: This feature is not applicable in Capacity Plus and Linked Capacity Plus. 1 Press the programmed Permanent Monitor button.
Advanced Features Scan lists are created and assigned to individual channels/ groups. Your radio scans for voice activity by cycling through the channel/group sequence specified in the scan list for the current channel. Your radio supports up to 250 scan lists, with a maximum of 16 members in a list. Each scan list shall support a mixture of both analog and digital entries. NOTE: This feature is not applicable in Capacity Plus and Linked Capacity Plus.
Scan When you start a scan, your radio cycles through the programmed scan list for the current channel looking for voice activity. The LED blinks yellow. During a dual mode scan, if you are on a digital channel, and your radio locks onto an analog channel, it automatically switches from digital mode to analog mode for the duration of the call. This is also true for the reverse.
2 Press the PTT button during hang time. The LED lights up solid green. clearly into the microphone. OR Wait for the PTT Sidetone to finish (if enabled) and speak clearly into the microphone. 4 Release the PTT button to listen. 5 If you do not respond within the hang time, the radio returns to scanning other channels/groups.
Call Indicator Settings You can turn on or off the ringing tones for a received Private Call (see Turning Radio Tones/Alerts On or Off on page 37). Escalating Alarm Tone Volume Your radio can be programmed by your dealer to continually alert you when a radio call remains unanswered. This is done by automatically increasing the alarm tone volume over time. This feature is known as Escalert.
Emergency Operation Your dealer can set the duration of a button press for the programmed Emergency button, except for long press, which is similar with all other buttons: • Short press – Between 0.05 seconds and 0.75 seconds • Long press – Between 1.00 second and 3.75 seconds The Emergency button is assigned with the Emergency On/Off feature. Check with your dealer for the assigned operation of the Emergency button. • Regular – Radio transmits an alarm signal and shows audio and/or visual indicators.
acknowledgement, and after all retries have been exhausted, a low-pitched tone sounds. 4 Radio exits the Emergency Alarm mode. If your radio is set to Silent, it does not display any audio or visual indicators during Emergency mode. Sending an Emergency Alarm with Call This feature allows you to send an Emergency Alarm to a group of radios. Upon acknowledgement by a radio within the group, the group of radios can communicate over a programmed Emergency channel.
allowing you to communicate with the group of radios without pressing the PTT button. If your radio has Emergency Cycle Mode enabled, repetitions of hot mic and receiving period are made for a programmed duration. NOTE: During Emergency Cycle Mode, received calls sound through the radio’s speaker. If you press the PTT button during the programmed receiving period, you will hear a prohibit tone, indicating that you should release the PTT button. The radio ignores the PTT press and remains in Emergency mode.
Reinitiating an Emergency Mode Text Messaging Features NOTE: This feature is only applicable to the radio sending the Emergency Alarm. There are two instances where this can happen: • You change the channel while the radio is in Emergency mode. This exits the Emergency mode. If Emergency Alarm is enabled on this new channel, the radio reinitiates Emergency. • You press the programmed Emergency On button during an Emergency initiation/transmission state.
Privacy Your radio must have privacy enabled on the channel to send a privacy-enabled transmission, although this is not a necessary requirement for receiving a transmission. While on a privacyenabled channel, the radio is still able to receive clear (unscrambled) transmissions. Your radio supports two types of privacy: NOTE: Some radio models may not offer this Privacy feature. Check with your dealer or system administrator for more information.
Multi-Site Controls Stopping an Automatic Site Search When the radio is actively searching for a new site: These features are applicable when your current radio channel is part of an IP Site Connect or Linked Capacity Plus configuration. See IP Site Connect on page 10 and Linked Capacity Plus on page 11 for more details about these configurations.
Lone Worker Following no user activity for a programmed duration, the radio pre-warns the user via an audio indicator once the inactivity timer expires. If enabled, this feature allows you to access your radio via password upon powering up. Use the Channel Selector Knob and the three Side Buttons to enter password (see Radio Controls of page 6): • Channel Selector Knob positions 1 to 9 represent digits 1 to 9, and position 10 represents digit 0.
Radio on page 5. OR If the password is incorrect: You hear a continuous tone. Repeat Steps 1 to 3. OR After the third incorrect password, your radio enters into locked state. A tone sounds and the LED double blinks yellow. Your radio enters into locked state for 15 minutes, and responds to inputs from On/Off/Volume Control Knob. Advanced Features NOTE: The radio is unable to receive any call, including emergency calls, in locked state.
Finding and Connecting to a Bluetooth Device Disconnecting from a Bluetooth Device Procedure: Turn on your Bluetooth-enabled device and place it in pairing mode. Refer to respective Bluetooth-enabled device’s user manual. 1 Press the programmed Bluetooth Disconnect button. 1 On your radio, press the programmed Bluetooth Connect button. 2 A tone sounds and LED blinks yellow. 3 Your Bluetooth-enabled device may require additional steps to complete the pairing.
Utilities Procedure: 1 Press the programmed Power Level button. Setting the Squelch Level You can adjust your radio's squelch level to filter out unwanted calls with low signal strength or channels that have a higher than normal background noise. transmitting at low power. OR You hear a negative indicator tone, indicating the radio is transmitting at high power. Settings: Normal is the default. Tight filters out (unwanted) calls and/or background noise.
• Change the channel via the Channel Selector Knob, OR Checking the Battery Strength You can check how much battery power you have left. NOTE: Turning this feature on or off is limited to radios with this function enabled. Check with your dealer or system administrator for more information. Settings: The LED Indicator in solid yellow indicates fair battery charge while solid green indicates full charge of the battery. Procedure: Press the programmed VOX button to toggle the feature on or off.
Intelligent Audio Your radio automatically adjusts its audio volume to overcome current background noise in the environment, inclusive of both stationary and non-stationary noise sources. This feature is a Receive-only feature and does not affect Transmit audio. NOTE: This feature is not applicable during a Bluetooth session. Use the following features to toggle Intelligent Audio on or off. Procedure: Advanced Features Press the programmed Intelligent Audio button to toggle the feature on or off.
Batteries and Chargers Warranty The Capacity Warranty The capacity warranty guarantees 80% of the rated capacity for the The Workmanship Warranty The workmanship warranty guarantees against defects in workmanship under normal use and service.
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