SMARTNET/SMARTZONE/P25 TRUNKED FEATURES
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Initiating a Page
1. With a SMARTNET/SmartZone or P25 trunked
channel selected, momentarily press the
ALERT
option switch. The tag (alias) of the last ID called is
displayed.
2. If required, rotate the Select switch to display the
desired mobile. The tag of each number is
displayed.
3. Press the PTT switch and one of the following then
occur:
•
If five beeps sound, the system received the page
and the paged mobile is on the air and received
it. The page mode is automatically exited.
•
If the system received the page but the called
mobile is not on the air, a single beep sounds and
“NO ACK” is displayed 6 seconds after the PTT
switch is pressed. Auto exit then occurs.
6.8 MESSAGING
NOTE: This feature is not available with P25 trunked
operation.
The messaging feature allows preprogrammed
messages to be sent to your dispatcher. Up to 16
messages can be preprogrammed, and they are identi-
fied by an alias. If an
MSG
option switch is
programmed, messages are sent as follows:
1. Momentarily press the
MSG
option switch. The
alias of the last message sent is displayed.
2. If required, rotate the Select switch to display the
desired message. Then send the message by
momentarily pressing the PTT or Select switch. One
of the following then occurs:
•
If five beeps sound and “ACK RCVD” is
displayed, the message was received and automat-
ically acknowledged by the system.
•
If after five tries the message is not acknowledged,
a tone sounds and “NO ACK” is displayed.
6.9 SENDING STATUS CONDITIONS
The status feature allows you to manually or
automatically send your current status to your
dispatcher. Up to eight status conditions can be prepro-
grammed, and they are identified by a tag (alias). If the
STATUS
option switch is programmed, status condi-
tions are sent as follows:
1. Momentarily press the
STATUS
option switch. The
tag of the current status condition is displayed.
2. To change the current status, rotate the Select switch
or press the PTT switch until the desired status is
displayed. Then press the Select switch to accept
that status. One of the following conditions then
occurs:
•
If five beeps sound and “ACK RCVD” is
displayed, the status was received and acknowl-
edged by the system.
•
If after five tries the message is not acknowledged,
a tone sounds and “NO ACK” is displayed.
6.10 EMERGENCY ALARM AND CALL
NOTE: The following enhanced conventional emer-
gency features require 5300 firmware 1.21.0/2.0/3.0
and PCConfigure 1.19 or later.
6.10.1 INTRODUCTION
Emergency Alarms and Calls are separate func-
tions that can be individually enabled or disabled on
each SMARTNET/SmartZone and P25 Trunked
system. The Emergency option switch is required for
these functions. Other emergency features are as
follows:
•
Emergency Alarms are transmitted on the selected
talk group if emergency calls are disabled, and on
the emergency talk group if emergency calls are
enabled.
•
Emergency Call talk group selection priority is as
follows. For example, if a global emergency channel
is not programmed, the emergency talk group of the
selected channel is used and so on.
