Monitoring Conventional Mode - Motorola ASTRO APX User Manual

c) Adjust the volume by rotating the MFK if
necessary.
d) If you hear no activity, press and hold the PTT
button to start your conversation.
• Monitoring a Channel in Trunked Modes:
a) Lift the microphone off hook.
b) Press the PTT button.
c) If you hear two, short, high-pitched tones, or if
you hear no tone and the
steadily, then proceed with your message.
d) Release the PTT button to receive (listen).
If you are not in the range of the system, you may
hear a continuous low-pitched tone and the display
shows Out of range.

Monitoring Conventional Mode

This feature must first be enabled by a qualified radio
technician or system administrator.
This feature allows you to monitor channel traffic on
conventional channels by defeating the coded
squelch. Thus, you can to listen to another user
active on the channel. This way, you may be
prevented from talking over someone else's
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conversation.
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indicator lights
1 To activate monitoring, perform one of the
following actions:
• At Home mode where the default zone and
channel are being displayed, or to Mon and
press the Menu Select button directly below
Mon momentarily.
• Take the control head off hook.
The display shows Monitor On. You hear all
channel traffic.
2 Press the Menu Select button again to deactivate
the monitoring.
The display shows Monitor off.
Monitor on shown on the display indicates that the
radio is monitoring. Pressing the Menu Select button
again turns monitor off and you don't hear all channel
traffic. If you try to transmit on a receive-only channel,
you hear an invalid tone until you release the PTT
button.