Selecting Keysets; Erasing Encryption Keys - Motorola APX 2500 User Manual

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Chapter 6: Advanced Features
2 Press the Menu Select button directly below Key.
The display shows the last user-selected and stored encryption key, and the available menu
selections. If the Multi-system Over-the-Air Rekeying feature is in use, the list of keys displayed
is only for the current secure profile of the selected channel.
3 or to scroll through the encryption keys or use the keypad to enter the number of the
desired key.
4 Perform one of the following actions:
• Press the Menu Select button directly below Sel to save the newly selected key and return
to the Home screen.
• Press , the PTT button, or the Menu Select button directly below Exit.
NOTICE: When the selected key is erased, you hear a momentary keyfail tone and the
display shows Key fail.
When the selected key is not allowed, you hear a momentary illegal key tone and the
display shows Illegal key.
6.11.3.4

Selecting Keysets

When and where to use: This feature allows you to select one or more groups of several encryption
keys from among the available keys stored in the radio.
For example, you could have a group of three keys structured to one keyset, and another group of
three different keys structured to another keyset; by changing keysets, you would automatically switch
from one set of keys to the other.
Every channel to which one of the original keys was tied now has the equivalent new key instead.
Procedure:
1 or to KSet and press the Menu Select button directly below KSet.
The display shows the last user-selected and stored keyset, and the available keyset menu
selections. If the Multi-system Over-the-Air Rekeying feature is in use, the displayed keysets are
only for the current secure profile of the selected channel.
2 or to scroll through the keysets or use the keypad to enter the number of the desired
keyset.
3 Press the Menu Select button directly below Sel to save the newly selected keyset.
The radio exits keyset selection and returns to the Home screen.
NOTICE: Press
time without changing the keyset selection.
6.11.3.5

Erasing Encryption Keys

Do one of the following to erase the selected encryption keys. You can use the options interchangeably
depending on your preference and the programmed functions.
If the Multi-system Over-the-Air Rekeying feature is in use, the keys erased are only for the current
secure profile of the selected channel. The erase all option operates as configured by the dealer or
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, the PTT button, or the Exit menu selection to exit this menu at any