When an Emergency Alarm acknowledgement is
received, the Emergency tone sounds and the
LED blinks green. The display shows Alarm Sent.
If your radio does not receive an Emergency
Alarm acknowledgement, and after all retries have
been exhausted, a tone sounds and the display
shows Alarm Failed.
Radio exits the Emergency Alarm mode and
returns to the Home screen.
Sending an Emergency Alarm with Call
This feature allows you to send an Emergency Alarm
to a group of radios. Upon acknowledgement by a
radio within the group, the group of radios can
communicate over a programmed Emergency
channel.
If your radio is set to Silent, it does not display any
audio or visual indicators during Emergency mode, or
allow any received calls to sound through the radio’s
speaker, until you press the PTT button to initiate the
call.
If your radio is set to Silent with Voice, it does not
display any audio or visual indicators during
Emergency mode, but allow incoming calls to sound
through the radio’s speaker. The indicators only
appear once you press the PTT button to initiate, or
respond to, the call.
1 Press the programmed Emergency On button.
The display shows one of the following:
•
Tx Alarm and the destination alias.
•
Tx Telegram and the destination alias.
The LED lights up solid green.
When an Emergency Alarm acknowledgement is
received, the Emergency tone sounds and the
LED blinks green. The display shows Alarm
Sent.Your radio enters the emergency call mode
when the display shows Emergency and the
destination group alias.
2 Hold the radio vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0
cm) from your mouth.
3 Press PTT button to make the call.
The LED lights up solid green and the Group icon
appears on the display.
4 Wait for one of the following tones to finish (if
enabled), and speak clearly into the microphone.
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