Sending a Silent Emergency Alarm
This feature allows you to send an Emergency Alarm to the
system without triggering any audio or visual indicators.
1
Press the preprogrammed
Emergency
button.
The display shows no changes, the LED does not
light up, and you hear no tones. The silent
emergency state continues until you perform the
next step.
2
Perform one of the following actions:
• Press and hold the preprogrammed
Emergency
button for about a second to exit the Silent
Emergency Alarm mode.
• Press and release the
PTT
button to exit the
Silent Emergency Alarm mode and enter regular
dispatch or Emergency Call mode.
Change of Channels during Emergency
For ALL Emergency transmissions, when changing
channels:
• If the new channel is also preprogrammed for
Emergency, you can change channels while in
Emergency operation. The emergency alarm or call
continues on the new channel.
• If the new channel is
NOT
preprogrammed for
Emergency, the display shows
NO EMERG
, and you hear
an invalid tone until you exit the Emergency state or
change to a channel preprogrammed for Emergency.
Emergency Keep-Alive Feature
This feature, when enabled, prevents the radio from being
turned off by using the
On/Off Control Knob
when the
radio is in the Emergency state.
NOTICE:
The radio only exits the Emergency state using one
of the ways mentioned in the previous sections.
See
Sending an Emergency Alarm on page 61
,
Sending an Emergency Call (Trunking Only) on
page 61
,
Sending an Emergency Alarm with
, or
.
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