Motorola ASTRO XTS 5000 III User Manual page 157

Glossary
Control Channel
Conventional
Conventional Scan
List
Cursor
Deadlock
Digital Private Line
(DPL)
Digital Signal
Dispatcher
Dynamic Regrouping A feature that allows the dispatcher to
Failsoft
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In a trunking system, one of the channels
that is used to provide a continuous, two-
way/data communications path between the
central controller and all radios on the
system.
Typically refers to radio-to-radio
communications, sometimes through a
repeater (see Trunking).
A scan list that includes only conventional
channels.
A visual tracking marker (a blinking line) that
indicates a location on the display.
Displayed by the radio after three failed
attempts to unlock the radio.The radio must
be powered off and on prior to another
attempt.
A type of coded squelch using data bursts.
Similar to PL except a digital code is used
instead of a tone.
An RF signal that has a pulsed, or discrete,
nature, rather than a continuous nature.
An individual who has radio system
management duties.
temporarily reassign selected radios to a
single special channel so they can
communicate with each other.
A feature that allows communications to
take place even though the central controller
has failed. Each trunked repeater in the
system will transmit a data word informing
every radio that the system has gone into
failsoft.
Federal Communications Commission.