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Trunking System Controls

Using the Site Trunking Feature

ADVANCED FEATURES

If the zone controller loses communication with any site, that site reverts to site trunking.

The display shows the currently selected zone/channel combination and

SITE TRUNKING

Note:

When this occurs, you can communicate only with other radios within your trunking site.

Emergency Button*

Menu Select

Buttons

CHANNEL UP/DOWN

Dimmer

Button

SPEAKER VOLUME

Power Button

Home

Button*

Bluetooth

Indicator**

LED

Indicators

Accessory Port

(Microphone)

Summary of Contents for APX 4500 O2 CH

Page 1: ...APXTM TWO WAY RADIOS INTERACTIVE END USER TOOLKIT IEUTK APX 4500 O2 CONTROL HEAD ...

Page 2: ...ogrammable Your radio s hardware is Bluetooth ready Check with your dealer or system administrator for more details of all the features supported Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons CHANNEL UP DOWN Dimmer Button SPEAKER VOLUME Power Button Home Button Bluetooth Indicator LED Indicators Accessory Port Microphone ...

Page 3: ...n The backlight will turn on to the last selected dim level If FAIL appears in the display the radio will not function until the condition has been corrected If ERROR appears some non critical data has been changed If the power up test is unsuccessful you see Error XX YY XX YY is an alphanumeric code Turn off the radio check the battery and turn the radio back on If the radio fails the power up te...

Page 4: ... Volume PREPARING YOUR RADIO FOR USE To increase the volume rotate VOLUME SWITCH clockwise The display shows volume bars and volume level when you change the volume To decrease the volume rotate the VOLUME CONTROL KNOB counterclockwise SPEAKER VOLUME ...

Page 5: ... IS ACTIVATED BY THE FIRST MENU SELECT SOFT KEY BELOW DISPLAY Scan List Programming Selects the scan list for editing THIS IS ACTIVATED BY THE THIRD MENU SELECT SOFT KEY UNDER DISPLAY Zone Select Allows selection from a list of zones THIS IS ACTIVATED BY SECOND MENU SELECT SOFT KEY UNDER DISPLAY ...

Page 6: ...N AMBULANCE RADIOS THIS IS A MENU SLECT SOFT KEY FUNCTION Monitor Conventional Only Monitors a selected channel for all radio traffic until function is disabled THIS IS A SOFT KEY FUNCTION ONLY AVAILABLE ON CHANNEL 7TAC52D Nuisance Delete Temporarily removes an unwanted channel except for priority channels or the designated transmit channel from the scan list THIS IS A MENU SELECT SOFT KEY FUNCTIO...

Page 7: ...ings or Utility Functions Channel Announcement Allows you to hear the Voice Announcement audio file that is assigned to the radio s current channel mode ALL CHANNELS IN THE FIRST ZONE USE VOICE ANNOUNCEMENT Dimmer Changes the display brightness DIM BUTTON DIMS BACK LIGHT DISPLAY ...

Page 8: ...ble buttons OR Use the Menu Select Buttons Using the Menu Select Buttons The Menu Select Buttons allow to access the menu entries of features Note Check with your dealer or system administrator for the list of features activated in your radio Your radio may be preprogrammed differently from the following example but the steps for selecting a zone may appear as shown below Press the Menu Select but...

Page 9: ...NTROLS Using the Advance Programmable Buttons This feature is to help you to shorten the process of applying certain common features Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons These programmable buttons support the One Touch Button feature CHANNEL UP DOWN Buttons ...

Page 10: ...ed radio settings or information Dimmer Button Use this button to adjust the brightness of the display Long press to toggle between day and night mode Up and Down Buttons THESE ARE PROGRAMMED FOR CHANNEL UP DOWN FUNCTION By default the and buttons are used as up and down arrow input These buttons are programmable They can be programmed to navigate through zones channels and to increase and decreas...

Page 11: ...B adjusts the volume level in 16 steps with large increments in volume level A slow turn of the VOLUME KNOB adjusts the volume level in 32 steps with small increments in volume level The display shows the volume level and bars to indicate the current level The level of last selected volume when your radio powers down remains the same when the radio powers up The main display shows the icon of the ...

Page 12: ...nal strength for the current site for trunking only The more stripes in the icon the stronger the signal Direct On Radio is currently configured for direct radio to radio communication during conventional operation only Off Radio is connected with other radios through a repeater Monitor Carrier Squelch Selected channel is being monitored during conventional operation only Power Level L Radio is se...

Page 13: ...Data On User is currently associated with the radio Off User is currently not associated with the radio Blinking Device registration or user registration with the server failed due to an invalid username or pin Data Activity Data activity is present Bluetooth On Bluetooth is on and ready for Bluetooth connection Bluetooth Connected Bluetooth is currently connected to the external Bluetooth device ...

Page 14: ...APX 4500 O2 CH 14 NEXT PREV CONTENTS LED Indicator IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS The LED indicator shows the operational status of your radio LEDs Red Yellow Green ...

Page 15: ... error Solid yellow Conventional Only Channel is busy Blinking yellow Radio is receiving a secured transmission Solid green Radio is powering up or is on a non priority channel while in the Scan List Programming mode Blinking green Radio is receiving an individual or telephone call or is on a Priority Two channel while in the Scan List Programming mode Rapidly blinking green Radio is on a Priority...

Page 16: ...round color to help signal that a radio event has occurred Note This feature must be preprogrammed by a qualified radio technician Backlight and Bar Color Notification When Orange Emergency Alerts The radio initiates an emergency alarm or call The radio receives an emergency alarm or call Red Critical Alerts The radio battery is low The radio is out of range The radio enters fail soft mode ...

Page 17: ...APX 4500 O2 CH 17 NEXT PREV CONTENTS Orange Emergency Alerts Red Critical Alerts IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS ...

Page 18: ... request is made Time Out Timer Warning Four seconds before time out No ACK Received When radio fails to receive an acknowledgment Individual Call Warning Tone When radio is in an individual call for greater than 6 seconds without any activity Talk Prohibit PTT Inhibit When PTT button is pressed transmissions are not allowed Long Low Pitched Tone Play Time Out Timer Timed Out After time out Out of...

Page 19: ...ontroller has received a request from a radio Long Medium Pitched Tone Play Volume Set When volume is changed on a quiet channel Emergency Exit When exiting the emergency state A Group of Medium Pitched Tones Play Fail soft When the trunking system fails Automatic Call Back When voice channel is available from previous request Keyfail When encryption key has been lost Console Acknowledge When stat...

Page 20: ... Private Call to answer the call Phone Call Received When a land to mobile phone call is received Gurgle Play Dynamic Regrouping When the PTT button is pressed a dynamic ID has been received Talk Permit When PTT button is pressed verifying system accepting transmissions Unique Low Pitched Chirp New Message When a new message is received Unique High Pitched Chirp Priority Status When a priority mes...

Page 21: ... channels Procedure TO SELECT A ZONE Menu 1 to Zone 2 Press the Menu Select button directly below Zone 3 to the required zone OR Rotate the MFK to the desired zone 4 Press the Menu Select button directly below Sel to confirm the displayed zone 5 Press the PTT button to transmit on the displayed zone ...

Page 22: ...APX 4500 O2 CH 22 NEXT PREV CONTENTS Selecting a Radio Channel GENERAL RADIO OPERATION A channel is a group of radio characteristics such as transmit receive frequency pairs Procedure TO CHANGE CHANNELS ...

Page 23: ...roceed to receive and respond to calls The LED lights up solid red while the radio is transmitting In conventional mode the LED lights up solid yellow when the radio is receiving a transmission In trunking mode there is no LED indication when the radio receives a transmission If the radio is receiving a secure transmission the LED blinks yellow LEDs Red Yellow Green ...

Page 24: ... of that talkgroup Procedure When you receive a talkgroup call while on the Home screen depending on how your radio is preprogrammed 1 ASTRO Conventional Only The LED lights up solid yellow The display shows the talkgroup alias or ID and the caller alias or ID OR Trunking Only The display shows the caller alias or ID 2 Press the PTT button to respond to the call The LED lights up solid red Release...

Page 25: ...rogrammed One Touch Call button The Contacts list Note If the feature inactivity timer is enabled your radio automatically exits the feature when your radio is left idle long enough for the time to expire You will hear the Menu Inactive Exit Tone upon feature exit Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons CHANNEL UP DOWN Dimmer Button SPEAKER VOLUME Power Button Home Button LED Indicators Accessory Por...

Page 26: ...alkgroup Procedure 1 USE THE UP DOWN CHANNEL SELECT BUTTONS 2 Press the PTT button to make the call YOU WILL HEAR TALK PERMIT TONES Trunking Only The LED lights up solid red Speak clearly into the microphone Release the PTT button to listen Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons CHANNEL UP DOWN Dimmer Button SPEAKER VOLUME Power Button Home Button LED Indicators Accessory Port Microphon e ...

Page 27: ...he current channel group Your radio supports different types of Scan Lists Trunking Priority Monitor Scan List Conventional Scan List Talkgroup Scan List A maximum of 200 Scan Lists can be programmed in your radio These lists must be preprogrammed by a qualified radio technician Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons CHANNEL UP DOWN Dimmer Button SPEAKER VOLUME Power Button Home Button Bluetooth Ind...

Page 28: ...Scan Lists Viewing a Scan List ADVANCED FEATURES Procedure 1 to ScnL 2 Press the Menu Select button directly below ScnL 3 to view the members on the list 4 Press to exit the current display and return to the Home screen Sel Del Rcl Edit Scan Zone A ASTRO MDC ...

Page 29: ...to add and or change the priority of the currently displayed channel in the scan list OR Press the Menu Select button directly below Del to delete the currently displayed channel from the scan list OR Press the Menu Select button directly below Rcl to view the next member of the scan list 5 to select more channels to be added or deleted OR Use the MFK to select additional channels to be added or d...

Page 30: ...he currently displayed channel to the scan list OR Press the button or press the Menu Select button directly below Sel one or more times to change the scan list status icon of the currently displayed channel 4 to select more channels to be added or deleted OR Use the MFK to select additional channels to be added or deleted OR Use the keypad to go directly to additional channels to be added or dele...

Page 31: ...1 to Scan 2 Press the Menu Select button directly below Scan The display shows Scan off if scan is disabled Press the Menu Select button directly below Scan to enable scan OR The display shows Scan on and the scan status icon if scan is enabled Press the Menu Select button directly below Scan to disable scan The radio returns to the Home screen Menu Select Buttons Zone A Channel 1 Scan on Zone Res...

Page 32: ...ou release the PTT button allowing the other party to respond HANG TIME IS PROGRAMMMED FOR 3 SECONDS AFTER THIS TIME TALK BACK REVERTS TO SLECTED CHANNEL If the other party responds within the hang time scanning does not resume until the full hang time expires after they have finished speaking allowing the conversation to be completed Radio Programmed for Non Talkback Scan ALL TRUNKED TALK GROUP C...

Page 33: ... capability does not apply to priority channels or the designated transmit channel Procedure 1 When the radio is locked onto the channel to be deleted to Nuis 2 Press the Menu Select button directly below Nuis The radio continues scanning the remaining channels in the list Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons CHANNEL UP DOWN Dimmer Button Multi function Knob Power Button Home Button Bluetooth Indi...

Page 34: ... following Turn the radio off and then turning it on again OR Change modes OR Turn off the radio and then turn it back on Nuisance mode delete can be disabled by the system administrator Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons CHANNEL UP DOWN Dimmer Button SPEAKER VOLUME Power Button Home Button Bluetooth Indicator LED Indicators Accessory Port Microphone ...

Page 35: ...ATURES SCAN FUNCTION IS PROGRAMMED SO THAT REMOVING THE MIC FROM MIC HOLDER WILL NOT SUSPEND SCAN Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons Up Down Buttons Dimmer Button Multi function Knob Power Button Home Button Bluetooth Indicator LED Indicators Accessory Port Microphone ...

Page 36: ...he following Emergency modes Emergency Alarm Emergency Call Trunking Only Emergency Alarm with Emergency Call Silent Emergency Alarm Special Considerations for Emergencies Check with your dealer or system administrator for more information on the programming of this feature Only one of the Emergency modes above can be assigned to the preprogrammed Emergency button or the Emergency footswitch Note ...

Page 37: ... the dispatcher Procedure 1 Press the preprogrammed Emergency button A tone sounds and the display alternates Emergency and the home display A dispatcher acknowledgment Ack received display follows AND Trunking Only A high pitched tone indicates that the alarm has been received by the trunked system s central controller 2 Press and hold the emergency button or the PTT button to return to normal op...

Page 38: ...alarm is not acknowledged a tone sounds and the display shows No acknowledge If you press the emergency button then change to a mode that has no emergency capability the display shows No emergency and a continuous low pitched tone sounds until a valid emergency mode is selected or until the emergency is cancelled When an emergency is active changing to another mode where emergency is enabled trunk...

Page 39: ...play shows Clear TX only The radio does not transmit until you disable the secure mode Secure Operations Enabling Secure Transmission ADVANCED FEATURES Secure radio operation provides the highest commercially available level of voice security on both trunked and conventional channels Unlike other forms of security Motorola digital encryption provides signaling that makes it virtually impossible fo...

Page 40: ...annel The fail soft condition is indicated by a faint beeping tone every nine seconds radio un squelched until the trunking system returns to normal operation To continue in Fail soft to communicate with other talkgroup refer to the following procedure Procedure 1 Rotate the MFK to change to a different repeater frequency 2 Press the PTT button to talk and release the button to listen When the tru...

Page 41: ...he range of the system it can no longer lock onto a control channel Procedure 1 You hear a low pitched tone AND OR The display shows the currently selected zone channel combination and Out of range Your radio remains in this out of range condition until It locks onto a control channel OR It locks onto a fail soft channel OR It is turned off ...

Page 42: ...t site reverts to site trunking The display shows the currently selected zone channel combination and SITE TRUNKING Note When this occurs you can communicate only with other radios within your trunking site Emergency Button Menu Select Buttons CHANNEL UP DOWN Dimmer Button SPEAKER VOLUME Power Button Home Button Bluetooth Indicator LED Indicators Accessory Port Microphone ...

Page 43: ...o will not affiliate with the Trunking systems PTT Tx Inhibit This option allows the user to power on and power off the radio through the Power button regardless of the Ignition s current state In addition if the Ignition is not present then all PTT button transmissions are inhibited However the radio is able to affiliate with the Trunking systems Required ALL MOBILE ARE PROGRAMMMED TO REQUIRE IGN...

Page 44: ... be no more than 1000 seconds Note This feature must be preprogrammed by a qualified radio technician The features which Voice Announcement supports are Zone Channel Scan PL Disabled Talkaround Direct Tx Inhibit Note Voice announcements support certain number of zone channel but not all Seek advice from your dealer or qualified technician for the best selection of this feature The two options of p...

Page 45: ...he feature inactivity timer is enabled when the radio is left idle and the timer expires You will hear the Menu Inactive Exit Tone upon feature exit Procedure Menu 1 to Prfl 2 Press the Menu Select button directly below Prfl to access the Profiles feature screen 3 to scroll through the menu selections 4 Press the Menu Select button directly below Sel to select the required radio profile The radio ...

Page 46: ...radio s display backlight as needed if poor light conditions make the display difficult to read Depending on how your radio is preprogrammed you can also maintain a minimum backlight level on the radio s display Dimmer Button Procedure 1 Press the Dimmer button to adjust the brightness of the display Long press to toggle between day and night mode ...

Page 47: ...r it can be disabled entirely for each radio mode by a qualified radio technician Note You will hear a brief low pitched warning tone four seconds before the transmission times out ALL RADIOS ARE PROGRAMMED WITH A 60 SECOND TIME OUT TIMER Procedure 1 Hold down the PTT button longer than the preprogrammed time You hear a short low pitched warning tone the transmission is cut off and the LED goes ou...

Page 48: ...ht characters can be viewed by both the receiving radio and the dispatcher Your radio s ID number is also automatically sent every time the PTT button is pressed This is a per channel feature For digital voice transmissions your radio s ID is sent continuously during the voice message ALL MOBILE ARE PROGRAMMMED TO DISPLAY THE CALLING RADIO S ALAIS FIRE AND RESCUE RADIOS ARE PROGRAMMED WITH FIRE RE...

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