General Radio Operation; Selecting A Zone - Motorola APX 3000 User Manual

General Radio Operation

Once you understand how your APX Portable is configured, you
are ready to use your radio.
Use this navigation guide to familiarize yourself with the basic
Call features:
Selecting a Zone† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
Selecting a Radio Channel† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
Using Mode Select Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
Saving a Zone and Channel to a Mode Select
Button† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
Receiving and Responding to a Radio Call . . . . . . . . . page 32
Receiving and Responding to a Call‡ . . . . . . . . . . . page 32
Receiving and Responding to a Private Call (Trunking
Only)†‡. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33
Receiving and Responding to a Telephone Call (Trunking
Only)†‡. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 33
Making a Radio Call† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
Repeater or Direct Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 34
Monitoring Features†‡. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
Monitoring a Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
Conventional Mode Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 35
Selecting a Zone†
A zone is a group of channels.
Use the following procedure to select a zone.
Note: Your radio must be preprogrammed to allow you to use
this feature.
Procedure:
1
If Selecting a Zone is the secondary function of the Up and
Down Arrow Buttons, short press the MFB to toggle to
Selecting a Zone mode. You hear the Secondary Mode tone
and associated Voice Announcement if configured.
OR
If Zone Up or Down feature is pre-programmed on a
programmable button, skip to step 2.
OR
If Selecting a Zone is the primary function of Up and Down
Arrow Buttons, skip to step 2.
2
Press the Up and Down Arrow Buttons, or the
preprogrammed Zone Up or Zone Down buttons to toggle
the zone list backward or forward. If configured, you can
hear Voice Announcement of the selected zone.
3
Press the PTT button to transmit on the selected zone
channel.
See Voice Announcement†on page 67 to understand how the
Voice Announcement works.
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