Sending An Emergency Alarm With Emergency Call - Motorola APX 3000 User Manual

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Chapter 7 : Advanced Features
Your radio microphone is automatically activated, allowing you to communicate with the group of radios
without pressing the PTT button. This activated microphone state is also known as hot mic. The hot
mic applies to the first voice transmission from your radio during the Emergency call. For subsequent
transmissions in the same Emergency call, you must press the PTT button.
When indirect PTT such as Hot Mic is activated, the audio transmission can be configured in CPS
to route the audio to the radio internal microphone, wired RSM microphone, or Bluetooth wireless
microphone.
Follow the procedure to send Emergency Call with hot mic on your radio.
Procedure:
1 Press the preprogrammed Emergency button.
One of the following scenarios occurs:
• The display shows EMERGNCY and the current zone or channel. A tone sounds and the LED
blinks red momentarily.
• A tone sounds to indicate that the selected channel does not support emergency and rejects
to launch emergency mode.
2 To exit Emergency Call, press and hold the preprogrammed Emergency button.
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Sending an Emergency Alarm with Emergency Call

When and where to use:
This feature gives your radio priority access on a channel for conventional system, and to a talkgroup
for trunking system.
Procedure:
1 Press the preprogrammed Emergency button.
If successful, the display shows EMERGNCY on the current zone and channel. You hear a short,
medium-pitched tone and the LED blinks red momentarily.
The radio exits Emergency Alarm and enters the Emergency Call state when one of the
following scenarios occur:
• You receive the dispatcher acknowledgment. The display shows ACK RCVD.
• You receive no acknowledgment. The display shows NO ACK.
• You press the PTT button while in the Emergency Alarm mode.
If unsuccessful, you hear the radio sounds a short low-pitched tone to indicate the selected
channel does not support emergency and rejects to launch emergency mode.
2 Press and hold the PTT button. Speak clearly with the microphone near your mouth.
3 Release the PTT button to end the transmission and wait for a response from the dispatcher.
4 To exit Emergency Call, press and hold the preprogrammed Emergency button for about a
second.
Turning off the radio also cancels the emergency state.
NOTE: The timer of this long press is preprogrammed. Consult the qualified technician to
program the duration required.
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