Operating Manual

EVX-261 OPERATING MANUAL 11
OPERATION
noise and resume normal
(quiet) monitoring.
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To transmit, monitor the
channel and make sure it
is clear.
Press and hold the
PTT
switch. Speak into the
microphone area of the
front panel grille in a
normal voice level. To return to the Receive mode, re-
lease the
PTT
switch.
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Press (or press and hold)
the
SIDE-1
or
SIDE-
2
button to activate one
of the pre-programmed
functions programmed
using
CE156
software
by your Vertex Standard
authorized dealer. See the next chapter for details re-
garding feature availability for this radio.
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If a Speaker/Microphone
is available, remove the
plastic cap and its two
mounting screws from
the right side of the
transceiver, then insert
the plug of the Speaker/
Microphone into the
MIC/SP
jack; secure
the plug using the screws supplied with the Speaker/
Microphone. Hold the speaker grille up next to your
ear while receiving. To transmit, press the
PTT
switch
on the Speaker/Microphone, just as you would on the
main transceiver’s body, and speak into the micro-
phone on a normal voice level.
Note 1): Save the original plastic cap and its mount-
ing screws. They should be reinstalled when not us-
ing the Speaker/Microphone.
2) When you press the PTT switch on the Speaker/
Microphone, it disables the internal microphone, and
vice versa.
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This radio have two modes of DMR operation to max-
imize spectrum ef¿ ciency. Standard operation requires
use of a TDMA repeater (such as the
EVX-R70
) to
utilize the repeater’s dual time slot capability for dou-
bling your radio fleet’s communication paths for up
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