Motorola Astro XTL 1500, User Manual

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ASTRO XTL 1500 Digital Mobile Radio with Control Head
13
Getting to Know Your Radio
Entering Characters Using the Keypad
Your XTL 1500 radio accepts input through the keypad in the form of
numeric or alphanumeric strings. You may use manual keypad entry
to select a status or a mode, to program a list, or to call a radio ID.
For instance, when you access the Status function using the
STS
softkey, the display shows the last successfully acknowledged status
first. If you would like to send a different status message, you can
scroll to the entry or, in the case of long lists, use the keypad to enter
a number corresponding to its numeric location in the list. If you wish
to access the twelfth status entry in the list, for example, you can
press
1 and then 2 , and press the PTT button to transmit that status.
This concludes an introduction on operating your XTL 1500 radio.
You can now begin familiarizing yourself with using your radio to
perform basic procedures such as transmitting and receiving. These
are covered in the following chapter.