Motorola 89FT3830 User Manual

APX™ TWO-WAY RADIOS

APX 3000

USER GUIDE

English

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ASTRO

®

APX™ 3000

Digital Portable Radios

Quick Reference Card

RF Energy Exposure and Product Safety

Guide for Portable Two-Way Radios

ATTENTION!

This radio is restricted to Occupational use only. Before using

the radio, read the RF Energy Exposure and Product Safety

Guide for Portable Two-Way Radios which contains important

operating instructions for safe usage and RF energy awareness

and control for Compliance with applicable standards and

Regulations.

Radio Controls

Turning Radio On/Off

Control Buttons for Channels, Zone or

Vol ume

* MFB can be programmed to Top, Top Side and

Middle Side button. It can be configured to

support two features out of Volume, Channel or

Zone mode.

Making a Call

You may hear Channel Voice Announcement

upon entering channel or zone mode if

preprogrammed.

Sending an Emergency Alarm

***Default emergency button press timer is

set to 1 second. This timer is programmable,

see page 40 in the user guide for details.

To exit emergency at any time, press and hold

the Emergency button.

Top Button*

_______________

Up Arrow

Button**

____________

Antenna

Top Side Button*

______________

Middle Side

Button*

______________

Down Arrow

Button**

____________

On/Off Switch

IMPORTANT!

You must connect a speaker microphone,

earpiece or headset to hear the audio

indicators; and a GCAI DRSM to see the strings

and icons of your radio.

• On – Push the On/Off Switch downwards. You

see a Green Dot.

• Off – Push the On/Off Switch upwards.

• Multi-Functional Button (MFB)* – To toggle

between Vol ume, Channel or Zone mode.

• Up Arrow Button** – To increase volume; to

toggle the channels or zones up.

Side

Connector

Cover

Battery

Connector

Transmit/

Receive LED

Battery

Bluetooth

Pairing

Spot

Bluetooth

LED

• Down Arrow Button** – To decrease volume;

to toggle the channels or zones down.

1 Press the Multi-Functional Button* to the

desirable channel or zone mode.

2 Press the Up/Down Arrow Button to change

the channel/zone.

3 Adjust volume, if necessary.

4 Press the PTT button to transmit; release to

receive.

1 Press and release the Emergency button***.

2 When acknowledgment is received, you hear

four beeps; alarm ends; and radio exits

emergency.

*PMLN6407B*

PMLN6407B

MOTOROLA, MOTO, MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS and the Stylized M logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC and are used under license.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2012–2013 by Motorola Solutions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 06/13.

1303 East Algonquin Road., Schaumburg, Illinois 60196, U.S.A.

English

Sending an Emergency Call

To exit emergency at any time, press and hold

the Emergency button.

Sending a Silent Emergency Alarm

To exit emergency at any time, press and hold

the Emergency button.

LED Indicator

Bluetooth Pairing with Mission Critical

Wireless Pod

Audio indications include alert tones and Voice

Announcement (feature enabled via CPS).

Bluetooth Pairing with Mission Critical

Wireless Remote Control Unit (RCU)

PMLN6233_ Discreet Mission Critical Wireless

RCU is recommended to use with your

APX 3000 as it provides additional functionality

to this radio.

Connecting to Display Remote Speaker

Microphone (DRSM)

Only DRSM supports the APX 3000 display

capability.

1 Press the Emergency button.

2 Press and hold the PTT button. Speak clearly

with the microphone near your mouth.

3 Release the PTT button to end call.

4 Press and hold Emergency button to exit

emergency.

1 Press the Emergency button.

2 The LED does not light up, and there is no

tone.

3 Silent emergency continues until you press

and hold the Emergency button to exit

emergency state.

OR

Press and release the PTT button to exit the

Silent Emergency Alarm mode and enter

regular dispatch or Emergency Call mode.

Solid red Radio is transmitting.

Blinking red

Radio is transmitting at low

battery condition.

Rapid blinking red Power-Up failure.

Solid green

Radio has completed power

up.

Blinking blue

(3 Blinks)

Bluetooth is powering On/

Off.

Slow blinking blue Bluetooth is ready to pair.

Rapid blinking

blue for two

seconds

Bluetooth fails to connect or

disconnect from a device.

Solid blue for two

seconds

Bluetooth device is

connected or disconnected.

Solid blue Bluetooth error.

Blinking blue at

heartbeat pace

Radio is connected with at

least one Bluetooth

accessory device.

1 To hear audio indications, plug the earpiece

into the Wireless Pod.

OR

To function as a Standalone PTT Device,

remove the earpiece.

2 Power on both your radio and Pod.

3 Ensure the Bluetooth feature of your radio and

Pod are enabled. Ensure the Pod is in pairing

mode.

4 Place the Bluetooth pairing spot of your Pod

within one inch from the Bluetooth pairing spot

on your radio.

1 Verify that both your radio and your RCU are

powered ON and in pairing mode.

2 To enter pairing mode on your RCU, press and

hold the Trunk button while powering up the

RCU.

3 Place the Bluetooth pairing spot on your RCU

within one inch of the Bluetooth pairing spot

on your radio.

4 Radio LED turns solid blue for two seconds

and then blinking blue at heartbeat pace to

indicate connection is successfully

established.

1 Turn off your Radio.

2 Align and attach the RSM’s connector to your

radio’s side connector.

3 Secure by tightening the screw on the lower

end of the connector.

Declaration of Conformity

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Declaration of Conformity

This declaration is applicable to your radio only if your radio is labeled with the FCC logo shown below.

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY

Per FCC CFR 47 Part 2 Section 2.1077(a)

Responsible Party

Name: Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Address: 1303 East Algonquin Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 60196, U.S.A.

Phone Number: 1-800-927-2744

Hereby declares that the product:

Model Name: APX 3000

conforms to the following regulations:

FCC Part 15, subpart B, section 15.107(a), 15.107(d) and section 15.109(a)

Class B Digital Device

As a personal computer peripheral, this device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the

following two conditions:

1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and

2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Declaration of Conformity

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Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part

15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a

residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not

installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by

turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the

following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Contents

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Contents

This User Guide contains all the information you need

to use the APX™ 3000 Series Digital Portable Radios.

Declaration of Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i

Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

RF Energy Exposure and Product Safety Guide for

Portable Two-Way Radios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Software Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .viii

Notice to Users (FCC and Industry Canada) . . . . .viii

Informations importantes sur la sécurité . . . .ix

Exposition aux radiofréquences et sécurité du produit

pour radios bidirectionnelles portatives . . . . . . . . . .ix

Version du logiciel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Avis aux utilisateurs (FCC et Industrie Canada) . . . . x

Computer Software Copyrights . . . . . . . . . . . .xi

Documentation Copyrights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi

Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xii

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

How to Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Notations Used in This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Additional Performance Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Dynamic System Resilience (DSR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

CrossTalk Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Encrypted Integrated Data (EID) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

SecureNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

What Your Dealer/System Administrator

Can Tell You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Preparing Your Radio for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Battery Charger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Attaching the Battery‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing the Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Attaching the Accessory Connector Cover . . . . . . . . 7

Installing Accessories with GCAI Connector . . . . . . . 7

Turning On Your Radio‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Adjusting the Volume† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Pairing Radio with Pod and Earpiece†‡ . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Pairing Radio with Mission Critical Remote Control

Unit (RCU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Using the Carry Holster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Inserting to the Carry Holster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Removing Your Radio from the Carry Holster . . . . 11

Tying Your Radio and Flexible Antenna to Your

Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Positioning Your Radio and Devices on Your

Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installing the Flexible Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Strapping the Antenna onto Your Body . . . . . . . . . 15

Identifying Radio Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Radio Parts and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Programmable Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Assignable Radio Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Assignable Settings or Utility Functions . . . . . . . . . 19

Accessing the Preprogrammed Functions . . . . . . . 19

Multi-Functional Button (MFB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using Push-To-Talk (PTT) Button† . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Identifying Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Status Icons‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

LED Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

LED Indicators in Surveillance Mode† . . . . . . . . . . 23

Intelligent Lighting Indicators‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Alert Tones† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

General Radio Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Selecting a Zone† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Selecting a Radio Channel† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using Mode Select Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Saving a Zone and Channel to a Mode Select

Button† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Receiving and Responding to a Radio Call . . . . . . 31

Receiving and Responding to a Call‡ . . . . . . . . . . .31

Receiving and Responding to a Private Call

(Trunking Only)†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Receiving and Responding to a Telephone Call

(Trunking Only)†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Making a Radio Call† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Repeater or Direct Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Monitoring Features†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Monitoring a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Conventional Mode Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Advanced Call Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Receiving and Responding to a Selective Call

(Conventional Only)†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

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Using the Dynamic Regrouping Feature (Trunking

Only)†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Requesting a Reprogram (Trunking Only)†‡ . . . . . 36

Classifying Regrouped Radios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Turning Scan On or Off‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Deleting a Nuisance Channel† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Restoring a Nuisance Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Call Alert Paging†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Receiving a Call Alert Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Emergency Operation†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Sending an Emergency Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Sending an Emergency Call (Trunking Only) . . . . .40

Sending an Emergency Alarm with Emergency

Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Sending a Silent Emergency Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Using the Emergency Keep-Alive Feature . . . . . . .42

Man Down†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Pre-Alert Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Post-Alert Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Alerting Tones When Man Down Feature is

Triggered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Triggering Emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Exiting Man Down Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Re-Initiating Man Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Testing the Man Down Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Secure Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Selecting Secure Transmissions†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Selecting Clear Transmissions†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Managing Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Loading an Encryption Key† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Multikey Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Erasing All the Selected Encryption Keys‡ . . . . . . 49

Requesting an Over-the-Air Rekey

(ASTRO Only)†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

MDC Over-the-Air Rekeying (OTAR) Page . . . . . 50

Infinite UKEK Retention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Hear Clear† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using Radio Kill‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using Direct Kill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Trunking System Controls†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Failsoft System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Going Out of Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using the Site Trunking Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Mission Critical Wireless

- Bluetooth® -†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Turning the Bluetooth On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Turning the Bluetooth Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Re-Pair Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Bluetooth Drop Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Pairing the Bluetooth Device with Your Radio . . . . 55

Indicating the Bluetooth Connection is Lost . . . . . . 56