Emergency Keep-Alive Feature - Motorola APX 8000 3 User Manual

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 emergency,
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 via the On/Off Control Knob when
the radio is in the Emergency state.
Note
The radio only exits the Emergency state
using one of the ways mentioned in the
previous sections.
See Sending an Emergency Alarm
87, Sending an Emergency Call (Trunking
Only) on page 88,
Alarm with Emergency Call
Sending a Silent Emergency Alarm
89.
90
English
on page
Sending an Emergency
on page 88, or
on page
BETA
Fireground (Conventional Only)
The portable Fireground Communications System is
designed for deployment at an incident scene. It
consists of five central components:
• Your APX portable radios
• Incident Management Software
• Command Terminal
• Radio Frequency (RF) Modem
• DVRS (Optional)
These components provide on-scene and inbuilding
radio coverage, and enhanced personnel
accountability and monitoring.
The radio helps to indicate your presence on the
scene if it is in the range of the Incident Commander
command terminal.
Each Fireground Communication System radio
automatically reports your radio ID on the commander
mobile command terminal. Your name, riding position
and sector are all can be configured to be seen at the
Commander's command terminal.
If you have a critical situation, you can press the
Emergency button which activates an alarm on the