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Sending an Emergency Alarm with Voice to Follow
This feature allows you to send an Emergency Alarm to another radio. Upon acknowledgment,
your radio's microphone is automatically activated, allowing you to communicate with the other
radio without pressing the PTT
button
.
This activated microphone state is also know as "hot rnic"
.
If you press the PTT button during
the programmed hot mic transmission period, the radio ignores the PTT press and remains in
Emergency mode
.
Procedure:
1
.
Press the programmed Emergency button.
2
.
The display shows Sending Alarm
.
The RED LED turns on and the Emergency icon is
displayed
.
3. Once the display shows Emergency Alarm successful, speak clearly into the microphone
.
When hot mic has been enabled, the radio automatically transmits without a PTT press until the
hot m
i
c duration expires
.
4
.
While transmitting
,
the RED LED turns on and the Emergency icon appears on the display
.
5
.
Once the hot mic duration expires
,
the radio automa
t
ically stops transmitting. To transmit
again
,
press the PTT button
.
If your radio is set to Silent, it will not display any audio or visual indicators during Emergency
mode, or receive any response from the target radio until the programmed hot
mic transmission period is over
,
and you press the PTT button
.
If your radio is set to Silent with Voice
,
it will not display any audio or visual indicators during
Emergency mode when you are making the call with hot mic or when the target radio responds
after the programmed hot mic transmission period is over. The indicators will only appear when
you press the PTT button
.
NOTE
:
If the Emergency Alarm request fails
,
the radio returns to the Home screen.
Exiting an Emergency Mode
Your radio exits Emergency mode when one of the following occurs
:
• Emergency Alarm acknowledgement is received. (for Emergency Alarm only),
OR
• All retries to send the alarm have been exhausted
,
OR
• The programmed Emergency button is long pressed
.
NOTE
:
If your radio is powered off
,
it exits the Emergency mode. The radio will not reinitiate the
Emergency mode automatically when it is turned on again.
Text Message Features
Your radio is able to rece
i
ve data
,
for example a text messa
g
e, from another rad
io
or an e-mail
application
.
The ma
x
imum length of
c
haracters for a te
x
t message
,
including the subject line is 138
NOTE: press
a
t any time to return to the previous screen or long p
r
ess
t
o
return t
o
the
Hom
e
screen
.
W
r
it
i
ng a
n
d
Se
n
di
ng a T
ex
t Mes
sa
g
e
Procedu
r
e
:
1. Press
to access the menu
.
2. Pr
es
s
to Messages and press
to select.
3
.
Pres
s
.
to Write and pres
s
to sel
e
ct.
4
.
A bl
i
nk
i
ng
c
u
r
s
o
r a
p
pears
.
Use the keypad
t
o t
y
pe
y
our me
s
sag
e.
Press
to move one space to the left
.
