Man Down - Motorola APX 4000 User Manual

See Sending an Emergency Alarm
Sending an Emergency Call (Trunking Only)
93, Sending an Emergency Alarm with Emergency
Call on page 94, or
Alarm on page 95.

Man Down

Man Down condition is determined based upon the
radio tilt angle or a combination of radio tilt angle and
the lack of radio motion.
Man Down feature is an alternate way to activate the
Emergency feature if Emergency has been
programmed in your radio.
Note: This feature could be preprogrammed for all
channels that support Emergency feature or could be
preprogrammed specifically to a zone and channel
which has Emergency feature. Consult your agent or
qualified technician for more details.
Your radio automatically activates Emergency Alarm
or Call when the radio achieves or passes a tilt angle
threshold or a combination of the angle threshold and
radio motion below the motion sensitivity level,
depending upon how the radio is programmed. The
radio must stay in this condition for a preprogrammed
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English
on page 93,
on page
Sending a Silent Emergency
amount of time before the Emergency Alarm or Call is
activated.
Note: It is recommended that an Emergency button is
preprogrammed in order to allow the user to exit the
emergency condition.
The Man Down feature provides a Clear function to
the user. After a Man Down condition has been
detected, the user can press a preprogrammed Clear
button or preprogrammed Menu Select button to
cancel the Man Down condition. The radio remains in
the Man Down state without triggering an emergency
condition until the radio is moved out of the Man
Down state, at which point Man Down functionality
resumes.
The Man Down feature has three phases:
1 The radio senses the Man Down condition and
Pre-Alert Timer is initiated.
2 Man Down condition continues for the time
duration defined in the Pre-Alert Timer field. At the
end of this time, the radio alerts the user on the
Man Down status with an audible alert tone and
Man-Down text on the screen.Man Down condition
continues for the time duration defined in the Pre-
Alert Timer field. At the end of this time, the radio