Motorola GM340 User Manual

Professional Radio

GM340

User Guide

68P64110B88

Issue: July 2000

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CONTENTS

Radio Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Radio Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Programmable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Audio Signal Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Turning the Radio On-Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Radio On Indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Adjusting the Radio’s Volume . . . . . . . . . . 9

Selecting a Radio Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Sending a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Receiving a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Cancelling a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Ending a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Radio Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Selective Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Making a Selective Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Receiving a Selective Call . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Emergency Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Public Address Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Car Radio Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Voice Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Call Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Talkaround. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

External Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Lone Worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Power Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Companding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Option Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Voice Operated Transmit (VOX) . . . . . . . .26

Stun/Unstun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Safe and Efficient Operation . . . . . . . . . . 27 Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy . . . 27 Electromagnetic Interference/

Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Operational Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Potentially Explosive Atmospheres. . . 28 Blasting Caps and Areas. . . . . . . . . . . 28 Radio Operation and EME Exposure . . . . 29 Mobile Antenna Installation . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Control Station Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 General Radio Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Computer Software Copyright

The products described in this manual may include copyrighted computer programmes stored in semiconductor memories or other media. Laws in the United States of America and other countries preserve for Motorola Europe and Motorola Inc. certain exclusive rights for copyrighted computer programmes, including the right to copy or reproduce in any form the copyrighted computer programme. Accordingly, any copyrighted computer programmes contained in the products described in this manual may not be copied or reproduced in any manner without the express written permission of the holders of the rights. Furthermore, the purchase of these products shall not be deemed to grant either directly or by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any licence under the copyrights, patents, or patent applications of the holders of the rights, except for the normal non-exclusive royalty free licence to use that arises by operation of the law in the sale of the product.

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RADIO OVERVIEW

This user guide covers the operation of the GM340 Professional Mobile Radio.

Please read pages 27 to 30 before using this radio.

RADIO CONTROLS

The numbers below refer to the illustrations on the inside front cover.

1.On-Off / Volume Knob

Used to turn the radio on or off, and to adjust the radio’s volume.

2.LED Indicators

Indicates channel, scan, and monitor status, as well as receipt of a selective call.

Green: Successful power up. Green Flashing: Radio scanning. Red: Radio transmitting.

Red Flashing: Channel busy-when receiving. Yellow: Radio called or Monitor (lower priority). Yellow Flashing: Radio call reminder alert.

3.Programmable Buttons gh

4.Mic Jack

5.Programmable Buttons VWXY

6.Push-to-talk (PTT)

Press and hold down this button to talk; release it to listen.

OVERVIEW RADIO

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RADIO OVERVIEW

PROGRAMMABLE BUTTONS

Several of your radio buttons can be programmed (by Customer Programming Software CPS) to activate the radio features.

Above each button is an associated LED. For buttons programmed as channel selectors, only the LED of the selected channel will be lit; for buttons programmed as feature on/off switches, the LED will be lit if the feature is on.

The following table shows the features that can be assigned to the P1and P2 buttons and the 1-4 buttons.

P1 and P2 are exchangeable for customised icon buttons to match programming.

	Feature	Description
		Monitor allows user to select between signalling squelch,
		carrier squelch and unsquelch, and to suspend scan when
	Monitor/Cancel	landed on a channel in scan mode.
		Cancel allows user to cancel current incoming or outgoing
		call.
	Radio Call	To make an individual or group selective call.
	Scan On/Off	To toggle between start and stop of the scan
		operation.
		To delete a nuisance (unwanted) channel when scanning,
	Nuisance	with exception of priority channel, last channel in scan list
	Delete/Cancel	and home channel.
	(Voice Storage)	Cancel, deletes messages being played back from the
		Voice Storage feature.

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Feature	Description		RADIO
	To delete a nuisance (unwanted) channel when scanning,
Nuisance Delete	with exception of priority channel, last channel in scan list		OVERVIEW
	and home channel.
Cancel	Cancel, deletes messages being played back from the
(Voice Storage)	Voice Storage feature.
Power Level	To toggle the radio’s transmit power level between High
	and Low.
Talkaround On/Off	To talk directly with another radio without going through a
	system or despatcher.
Emergency	Activates emergency alarm sequence.
	To identify user as a lone worker. Radio enters emergency
Lone Worker	sequence unless user responds, when prompted, by
	pressing any radio button.
Call Forward	To transfer calls automatically to another radio if user is
	unable to take the call.
Companding On/Off	To toggle between compression/expansion of audio signal
	and normal audio signal.
Option Board	Allows user to toggle the option board between on and off.
On/Off

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OVERVIEW		Feature	Description
		External Alarm	To toggle the External Alarm feature on and off.
		Record/Play-back	To record/play-back incoming calls or memos using voice
RADIO		(Voice Recorder)	recorder feature.

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AUDIO SIGNAL TONES

High pitched tone

Low pitched tone

Tone

Signal

Description

Power up OK

Radio self-test OK.

Power up Fail

Radio self-test fail.

Button Error

Button press not

permitted.

Engaged

Channel busy or not

permitted to transmit.

Call Failed

Call failed to connect.

Radio must monitor

Force Monitor

channel before trans-

mission permitted.

Button

Any option button

Feature

pressed to enable a

Enable

feature.

Button

Any option button

Feature

pressed to disable a

Disable

feature.

Group Call

Radio receives a

Group Call.

Individual Call

Radio receives an

Individual Call.

Tone

Signal

Description

Call

Reminder of

Reminder

unanswered call.

TOT Pre-Alert

Warns of expiry of

time out timer.

Monitor Alert

Alerts to change of

squelch.

Voice Storage

Voice Storage-

Recording.

Voice Storage

Voice Storage-

Warning.

Voice Storage

Voice Storage-

Full.

Scan Start

Radio starts

scanning.

Scan Stop

Radio stops

scanning.

Priority Call

Radio detects a

Decode

priority call.

Priority

Radio landed on the

Channel

priority channel.

Lone Worker

Reminds lone worker

to respond.

OVERVIEW RADIO

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RADIO OVERVIEW

Tone

Signal

Description

Hardware

Hardware error, tone

continues until valid

Error

operation.

Previous message or

Cancel

message currently

being played from

Message

Voice Storage has

been deleted.

Channel Free

Indicates current

Beep

channel is free.

Incoming

Indicates an

Emergency

emergency situation.

Alert

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Incoming calls (high

Ringtones

tones), outgoing calls

General

(low tones).

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