Ericsson M-RK II operators manual

LBI-38732C

Operator’s Manu al

EDACS® M-RK-II
PORTABLE RADIO

M-RK

MNU

SCN

GRP

SYS

1

3

2

4

ADD6

5

PVT

DEL

STS

7

9

MSG8

#

0

IND

DISP

PHN

✱

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NOTICE!

This manual covers Ericsson and General Electric products manufactured

and sold by Ericsson Inc.

NOTE

Repairs to this equipment should be made only by an authorized service
technician or facility designated by t he supplier. Any repairs, alterations or
substitution of recommended parts made by the user to this equipment not
approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate the
equipment in addition to the manufacturer’s warranty.

NOTICE!

The software contained in thi s device is copyrighted by Ericsson Inc.
Unpublished rights are reserved under the copyright laws of the United
States.

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Copyright © October 1992, Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc.

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without any warranty. Improve-

., at any time and without notice.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

USER INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

BUTTONS AND KNOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

KEYPAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

UNIVERSAL DEVICE CONNECTOR (UDC) . . . 24

ALERT TONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Call Originate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Autokey (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . 25

Call Queued (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . 25

System Busy (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . 26

Call Denied (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . 26

Carrier Control Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Low Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Low Battery Alert (Transmit Lockout) . . . . 27

Key Press Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

TURNING ON THE RADIO . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

SELECTION MODE RULES . . . . . . . . . . . 28

MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

SYSTEM/GROUP/CHANNEL SELECTION . . . 34

System Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Group And Channel Selec ti on . . . . . . . . 36

TRUNKED MODE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . 37

Receiving A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Sending A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Emergency Operati on . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Receiving An Emergency Call . . . . . 39

Declaring An Emergency Call . . . . . . 40

Wide Area System Scanning . . . . . . . . 41

ProSound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Scanning Trunked G rou ps . . . . . . . . . . 42

Adding Groups To A Scan List . . . . . 42

Deleting Groups From A Scan List . . . 42

Turning Scan On . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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INDIVIDUAL CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

TELEPHONE INTERCONNECT CALLS . . . . 46

PROGRAMMABLE ENTRIES . . . . . . . . . . 49

CONVENTIONAL MODE OPERATION . . . . . 50

AEGIS AND V OICE GUARD OPERATION . . . 58

VOICE MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Turning Scan Off . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Receiving And Responding To An Individual

Call (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . 44

Sending An Individual Call

(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Receiving A Telephone Interconnect Call

(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Sending A Telephone Interconnect Call

(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

DTMF Overdial / Conventional Mode

Telephone Interconnect . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Receiving A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Sending A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Emergency Operati on . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using 5-Tone Signalling for

Emergency Declarati on . . . . . . . . 54

Tone Encode Transmission . . . . . . . . . 54

Scanning Conventional Channels . . . . . . 55

Adding Groups To A Scan List . . . . . . . 56

Deleting Groups From A Scan List . . . 56

Turning Scan On . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Turning Scan Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Clear Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Aegis Digital Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

DTMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Aegis Private And Voice Guard Private Modes

Transferring Keys Into The Radio . . . . 63

Displaying The Currently Used

Cryptographic Key Number . . . . . . 64

Key Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Private Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Receiving An Encrypted Call . . . . . . 65

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Transmitting An Encrypted Call . . . . . 66

Scanned Group Calls . . . . . . . . . . 67

PORTABLE DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

DISPLAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

DATA OFF OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

DATA ON OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

EXITING DATA CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

SCAN LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

DATA LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

STATUS/MESSAGE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . 71

STATUS OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

MESSAGE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

EDACS CONVENTIONAL P1 SCAN . . . . . . . . 73

DYNAMIC REGROUP OPERATION . . . . . . . . 73

EMERGENCY OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . 74

MACRO KEY OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

OPERATING RULES AND REGULATIONS . . . . 75

OPERATING TIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

CHARGING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 77

RECHARGEABLE BATTERY PACK DISPOSAL . 78

INSTALLING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 78

REMOVING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 78

INTRINSICALLY SAFE USAGE . . . . . . . . . . 79

BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

ACCESSORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

OPERATOR’S RADIO SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . 85

WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

NICKEL-CADMIUM BATTERY WARRANTY . . . . 87

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INTRODUCTION

This manual describes how to use the EDA CS M-RK
II Portable Radio. The M-RK II is a synthesized, micro­processor-based, high performance portable FM radio
providing reliable two-way communications in both the
Enhanced Digital Access Communications System
(EDACS) trunking environment and conventional c om­munication systems.

In the EDACS or trunked system mode, the user
selects a communications system and group. In this
mode, channel selection is transparent to the user and
is controlled via digital communication with the system
controller. This provides advanced programmable fea­tures and fast access to communication channels.

In the conventional mode, the user selects a channel
and directly communicates on that channel. In this mode,
a system refers to a set of channels. A channel is a
transmit/receive radio frequency pair.

The exact operation of the radio will depend on the
operating mode, the radio’s programming, and the par­ticular radio system. Most features described in this
manual may be enabled or disabled through program­ming. Consult the system administrator f or the particular
features that are programmed into the M-RK II.

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USER INTERFACE

The M-RK II operating controls are located on the
radio’s front, top and left panels. A 15-button keypad,
liquid crystal display (LCD) for radio status information,
microphone and speaker are on the front panel. The top
panel houses a rotary SYSTEM/GROUP/CHANNEL
knob, POWER ON-OFF/VOLUME control knob and a
protected red EMERGENCY button. An OPTION b utton,
CLEAR/MONITOR button and the Push-To-Talk (PTT)
button are all located on the left side panel. The Universal
Device Connector (UDC) is located on the right panel
and is used while programming the radio and for acces­sory connection.

The keypad is used for manual number entry for
individual calls, access to a telephone interconnect sys­tem, and activation of various EDACS or conventional
features such as menu selection or scan operations.

The display has two, eight-alphanumeric-character
lines used to show the operational mode of the radio. 15
status indicators, used to indicate various operating con­ditions such as transmitter on, channel busy, scanning,
or low battery, are located above and to the right side of
the character lines within the display. A back light illumi­nates the display and the keypad for nighttime use.

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POWER ON-OFF
/VOLUME knob

SYSTEM/GROUP
/CHANNEL knob

Antenna

Display

OPTION button

CLEAR
/MONITOR BUTTON

Push-To-Talk
(PTT) button

Battery latch

Battery

Figure 1 - M-RK II Portable Radio

M-RK

Universal
Device
Connector
(UDC)

MNU

1
4

PVT

STS

7

PHN

✱

3

2

ADD6

5

DEL

9

MSG8

#

0

DISP

IND

Keypad

SCN

GRP

SYS

Speaker

9

SYSTEM/GROUP
/CHANNEL knob

POWER ON-OFF
/VOLUME knob

5

4

6

3

2

16

15

OFF

7

8

91

10

11

1214

13

MAX

Antenna

OPTION button

CLEAR
/MONITOR button

Push-T o-Talk
(PTT) button

Battery latch

Figure 2 - Top And Partial Left Panel Views

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EMERGENY
button

BUTTONS AND KNOBS

This section describes the primary function of the
button and knob controls. Other functions associated
with these controls are detailed in later sections.

SYSTEM

/ GROUP

/ CHANNEL

KNOB

PO WER

ON-OFF

/ VOLUME

KNOB

Selects systems or groups/channels
(depending on programming). This is
a 16 - position rotary knob. See SYS­TEM/ GROUP/CHANNEL SELEC­TION for details.

Applies power to the radio and ad­justs the receiver’s volume. Rotating
the control clockwise out of detent
applies power to the radio. A single
alert tone sounds (if enabled through
programming) to indicate the radio is
operational.

Rotating the control clockwise in­creases the volume level. Minimum
volume levels may be programmed
into the radio to prevent missed calls
due to a low volume setting. While
adjusting the volume the display will
momentarily indicate the volume
level (i.e. VOL = 31). The volume
range is from a minimum pro­grammed level of zero (displa y ed as
OFF in the display) up to 31 which is
the loudest level.

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EMER-

GENCY

BUTTON

Provides single button emergency
channel access. See the EDACS and
conventional emergency sections for
more details.

OPTION

BUTTON

CLEAR/

MONITOR

BUTTON

PUSH-TO-

TALK BUT-

TON (PTT)

(1) Programmable per system.
(2) Perf orms the backspace function
during data entry. In Phone and Indi­vidual Call modes the OPTION but­ton can be used to recall the last
phone number or radio ID entered.

Serves several purposes depending
on the operating mode. In trunked
mode, the CLEAR/MONITOR b utton
exits the current operation and re­moves all displa ys associated with it.
The radio and display then return to
the group receive state. In c onven­tional mode, pressing this button un­mutes the receiver so activity on the
selected channel can be monitored.
When pressed and held for approxi­mately 3 seconds, this button toggles
conventional channel decoding/en­coding (Channel Guard, Digital
Channel Guard, T99) on and off if
programmed for the selected chan­nel.

Enables the radio’s transmitter. Re­leasing PTT returns the radio to the
receive mode.

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KEYPAD

The keypad layout is similar to a standard telephone
keypad but with three additional buttons at the top for a
total of 15 keys . In addition to numbers, most of the keys
have special functions and are labeled as such using a
symbol or abbreviated word describing its primary func­tion. Numeric entry is a secondary function of the keys.
Each key is described below.

MNU

SYS

1

PVT

4

STS7

PHN

✱

Figure 3 - M-RK II Keypad

Primary function - changes the sys -

∧

tem or group/channel (depending on

∨

programming); secondary function ­changes to a selection for items
within a list. Press
creasing order,
ing order. To auto-ramp press and
hold the key .

GRP

2
5

MSG8

DISP0

∨

to scroll in decreas-

SCN

3

ADD6

DEL9

IND#

∧

to scroll in in-

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MNU Primary function - accesses the

menu list. This is a list of additional
features that are not available di­rectly from the keypad. See MENU
for details. Secondary function - acti­vates a selected item within a list. Af­ter the menus list is accessed, select

∧

a menu item from the list via

or
and activate it with this ke y . Once ac­tivated, MNU continues its secon­dary function for activating a se­lected parameter setting until the ra­dio returns to its normal receive
state. This is similar to an enter key .

SYS Used to directly access systems via

the keypad and to access system se­lection in increasing or decreasing
order, or to select a set (bank) of sys­tems for SYSTEM/ GROUP/CHAN­NEL knob selection (depending on
programming). See SYSTEM/
GROUP/CHANNEL SELECTION
for details.

GRP Used to directly access groups via

the keypad and to access group se­lection in increasing or decreasing
order, or to select a set (bank) of
groups for SYSTEM/GROUP/
CHANNEL knob selection (depend­ing on programming). See SYSTEM/
GROUP/CHANNEL SELECTION
for details.

∨

STS The Status key is used to send a pre-

programmed status message to the
EDA CS site .

SCN Toggles scan operation on and off.

When the radio is scanning, is
on and all groups or channels in the
scan list of the currently selected
system are scanned.

SCN

ADD

DEL

MSG The Message key is used to send a

PHN Used to place a telephone call

IND Used to call an individual or make an

DISP Inverts the display’s two alphanu-

Adds or deletes selected groups or
channels from the scan list of the cur­rently selected system. See the
trunked and conventional scan sec­tions for details.

pre-programmed status message to
the ED ACS sit e.

through the radio by selecting the
telephone interconnect special call
function. See Telephone Intercon­nect Calls for details.

all-call by selecting the individual call
special call function. See Individual
Calls for details.

meric character lines for viewing
from above; useful when the radio is
attached to the user’s belt.

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DISPLAY

The radio’ s display is shown belo w. T he two character
lines are used to display system, group and channel
names and also operational messages to the user. Each
line contains eight alphanumeric character blocks. The
15 status indicators are used to show the various oper­ating conditions of the radio. If the display back-lighting
is programmed on, the display will illuminate for a short
period when any of the controls are operated.

Line 1
Line 2

Figure 4 - M-RK II Display

The two display lines can be inverted to permit easy
viewing if the radio is worn on a belt or placed into a
vehicular charger . Press DISP once to invert the charac­ter lines, press DISP again to return to the normal display.
Refer to the MENU section to change the display’s con­trast.

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Messages

During radio operation, various messages are dis­played on either line one or line two. Typical messages
include control channel status information, such as sys­tem busy or call denied, or messages associated with the
radio’s operation, (i.e. volume or contrast adjust). These
messages are described below.

Message Name Description

QUEUED

SYS BUSY

DENIED

Call Queued

System Busy

Call Denied

Trunked mode

-

only. Indicates
the system has
placed the call in
a request queue.

Trunked mode

-

only. Indicates
the system is
busy, no chan­nels are currently
available, the
queue is full or an
individual call is
being attempted
to a radio that is
currently trans­mitting.

Trunked mode

-

only. Indicates
the radio is not
authorized to op-

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erate on the se­lected system

CC SCAN

WA SCAN

TALKARND

Control Channel Scan-Trunked mode

only. Indicates
the control chan­nel is lost and the
radio has en­tered the Control
Channel Scan
mode to search
for the control
channel.

Wide Area Scan

Trunked mode

-

only. Indicates
the control chan­nel is lost and ra­dio has entered
the Wide Area
Scan mode to
search for a new
system (if en­abled through
programming).

Talk-around

Conventional

-

mode only. Indi­cates the radio is
operating on
conventional
channels in talk­around mode (no
repeater).

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*RXEMER*

Receive Emergency-Trunked mode

only . Indicates an
emergency call
is being received.
This message
will be flashing
on line two.

*TXEMER*

VOL = 31

LOW BATT

Transmit Emergency-Trunked mode

only . Indicates an
emergency call
has been trans­mitted. This mes­sage will be
flashing on line
two.

Volume Level

Indicates the cur-

-

rent volume le vel.
The volume level
display ranges
from OFF (silent)
to 31 (loudest).

Battery Low

-

Indicates the bat­tery level is too
low for transmis­sion. This mes­sage displays
when pressing
PTT and trans­mitting is dis­abled due to the
low battery con­dition.

UNKNOWN

Unknown ID

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Trunked mode

-

only . Indicates an
individual call is
being received
by an unknown
radio ID. This by­passes when the
call is updated.

TX DATA

RX DATA

DATA OFF

DATA ON

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Transmit Data

Receive Data

Data Off

Data On

Trunked mode

-

only. Indicates
when a data call
is being transmit­ted. Displayed on
line one.

-

Trunked mode
only. Indicates
when a data call
is being received.
Displayed on line
one.

-

Trunked mode
only. Indicates
when radio is in
data disable
state. Displayed
on line one.

Trunked mode

-

only. Indicates
when radio is
toggled to data
enable state. Dis-

played on line
one for two sec­onds.

KEY ZERO

PVT DIS

FRCD PVT

NO KEY #

Key Zero

Private Disabled

Forced Private

No Key Number

Indicates that

-

cryptographic
keys have been
erased from ra­dio memory .

Indicates that the

-

group or channel
is not pro­grammed for pri­vate mode op­eration.

Indicates that

-

group or channel
is pre-pro­grammed for pri­vate mode op­eration and clear
mode is not pos­sible.

-

Indicates that the
correct crypto­graphic key is not
loaded for the se­lected group or
channel.

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Status Indicators

The 15 status indicators show the various operating
characteristics of the radio. The indicators show operat­ing modes and conditions as follows:

SVC Trunked mode only .

ON - indicates the radio is in an EDACS
service area and is in communication with
the site controller via the control channel
(CC).
FLASHING - indicates the EDACS is in the
failsoft mode (if enabled through progr am­ming).
OFF - indicates the radio is out of range or
the control channel is not available.

CG Conventional mode only.

ON - indicates Channel Guard encode/de­code is enabled on the selected conven­tional channel.

BAT ON - indicates the battery pack’s charge is

low and needs recharging.

PVT Private

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ON - indicates the group or channel is en­abled to receive encrypted messages.
FLASHING - indicates an encrypted
transmission is being received.

BSY Channel Busy -

In trunked mode:

ON - indicates the radio is transmitting
or receiving a call on the working chan­nel.
FLASHING - indicates a call has been
queued.

In conventional mode:

ON - indicates a call is being received.

WHC Who Has Called (trunked mode only)

ON - indicates an individual call has been
received, but not responded to . The indica­tor turns OFF if the individual call mode is
entered, the system is changed or the ra­dio is turned off and back on.

SPC ON - indicates the radio is in the special

call select/entry mode (Individual or Tele­phone Interconnect).

HI ON - indicates the selected group or chan-

nel is selected to transmit at high power .
OFF - indicates the selected group or
channel is selected to transmit at low
power.

XMIT ON - indicates the radio is transmitting.

When operating in a trunked system, the
radio may be programmed to automat­ically transmit (without pressing PTT) to
maintain digital communication with the

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site controller. will turn on when­ever the radio is transmitting.

SCN ON - indicates the scan mode is enabled.

S ON - indicates the selected group or chan-

nel is in the scan list.

1 ON - (conventional mode only) indicates

the selected channel is designated as the
priority-one scan channel.

2 ON - (conventional mode only) indicates

the selected channel is designated as the
priority-two scan channel.

XMIT

Speaker

Icon

UNIVERSAL DEVICE CONNECTOR (UDC)

The Universal Device Connector (UDC) provides
connections for external accessories such as a headset
or a speaker-microphone. When the radio is locked in a
vehicular charger/repeater the UDC provides the audio
and control connections between the radio and the ve­hicular charger/repeater. The UDC is also used to pro­gram and service the radio.

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ON - (conventional mode only) indicates
that the selected channel has T99 decode
option enabled.

ALERT T ONES

The M-RK II radio also provides audible alert tones
or "beeps" to indicate the various operating conditions.
These alert tones can be enabled or disabled through
programming.

Call Originate

A short mid-pitched alert tone sounds after keying the
radio (Push-T o- T alk b utton is pressed). This indicates the
radio has been assigned a working channel or that the
radio is transmitting on a conventional channel and v oice
communication may begin immediately. In conventional
mode, this tone may be delayed after the PTT button is
pressed due to GE-STAR s ignalling (if enabled through
programming).

Autokey (Trunked Mode Only)

After being placed in queue or releasing the PTT
button prior to a working channel assignment, the site
calls the radio when a channel becomes available. At this
point, the radio automatically keys the transmitter
(autokey) for a short period to hold the channel. The radio
sounds a mid-pitched tone when it is clear to talk; imme­diately press the PTT button to keep the assigned chan­nel.

Call Queued (Trunked Mode Only)

A high-pitched tone after pressing the PTT button
indicates the system has placed the call request in the
queue. The receiving unit(s) also hear the tones, indicat-

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ing they will receive a call shortly . If the the PTT button is
released, the radio will autokey whenever a channel
becomes available (see Autokey).

System Busy (Trunked Mode Only)

Three low-pitched beeps will be heard if the radio is
keyed when the system is busy, if no channels are
available for sending the message, if the call queue is
full, or if an individual call is being attempted to a radio
that is transmitting. Releasing the PTT button and rek ey­ing initiates a new channel request.

Call Denied (Trunked Mode Only)

If the radio is keyed and a low pitched tone is heard
then the radio is not authorized on the system that has
been selected.

Carrier Control Timer

If the programmed time for continuous transmission
is exceeded, five short high-pitched warning tones fol­lowed by a long low-pitched tone will be heard. The
transmitter will shut down shortly after hearing the alert,
interrupting communications. Release and re-key the
PTT button to maintain communications. This will reset
the carrier control timer and turn the transmitter back on.

Low Battery W arning

A low-pitched tone is heard and comes on
indicating that the battery voltage is low. The radio will
continue to receive and transmit.

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BAT

Low Battery Alert (Transmit Lockout)

If the radio is keyed and a low-pitched tone or two
tones repeated until PTT or CLEAR button is pressed
(either conditions is pre-programmeable) is heard and
LOW BATT is displayed, the battery is discharged and
the radio will not transmit. The radio will still be able to
receive calls until the battery is discharged beyond the
point of operation, after which the battery will need to be
recharged to resume normal operation.

Key Press Alert

A short tone or "beep" sounds to indicate a key has
been pressed. A short low-pitched tone indicates no
action was taken because the key is not active in the
current mode.

OPERATION

TURNING ON THE RADIO

Rotate the POWER ON-OFF/VOLUME knob clock­wise, out of detent to turn the radio on. (Ensure the
antenna and battery pack are properly connected prior
to power on.) A short beep (if enabled through program­ming) indicates the radio is ready for operation. The
display indicates, if programmed, the last selected sys­tem name on line one and the last selected group or
channel name on line two.

In the EDACS trunk ed en vironment, upon acquisition
of the control channel, will come on. If communi-

cation with the system’s control channel cannot be es-

SVC

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