Tait TP9160, User Manual

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Making calls 39
Making and r
e
ceiving
calls
Understanding talkgroups
Note:
This feature is available for digital channels only.
Talkgroups are a collection of people (radio unit IDs)
with whom you want to have private conversations as
a group.
For example, a state's public safety agencies could have
the following talkgroups:
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Local talkgroups—used by a specific agency to com-
municate within their own local agency. It may even
be made up of a county of public safety officers.
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Regional talkgroups—used by large state agencies
that have regional divisions.
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Statewide talkgroups—used by an agency to com-
municate with a public safety member in another
region. Statewide talkgroups, as their name suggests,
enable public safety agencies to communicate with
each other from one end of the state to the other.
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Special event talkgroups—may be used to manage
emergencies encompassing a large area, or even
events such as visits by heads of state.
Making a talkgroup call
1 Press Menu and select Talkgroups .
(Depending on how your radio is programmed, you
may be able to use a Quick Access menu to go to the
Talkgroup menu.)
2 Scroll through the list of talkgroups to the one you
want and press
Select .
3 Press the PTT key to make a call to the currently
selected talkgroup.
Talkgroup01
Talkgroups
Select Cancel
Talkgroup02