Motorola ASTRO APX 6000 Series Quick Reference Card page 70

Term
NiCd Nickel-cadmium
NiMH Nickel-metal-hydride.
The user talks on a preprogrammed
Non-Tactical/
emergency channel. The emergency alarm
Revert
is sent out on this same channel.
OTAR Over-the-air rekeying.
A one-way alert, with audio and/or display
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messages.
Personality A set of unique features specific to a radio.
Refers to a software feature that has been
Preprogrammed
activated by a qualified radio technician.
A sub-audible tone that is transmitted such
Private Line
that only receivers decoding the tone
(PL)
receives it.
Refers to a radio control that can have a
Programmable
radio feature assigned to it.
Push-To-Talk – the PTT button engages
PTT the transmitter and puts the radio in
transmit (send) operation when pressed.
The part of the general frequency spectrum
Radio
between the audio and infrared light
Frequency (RF)
regions (about 10 kHz to 10,000,000 MHz).
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English
Definition Term
A conventional radio feature, where you
talk through a receive/transmit facility that
Repeater re-transmits received signals, in order to
improve communications range and
coverage.
Any digital P25 traffic having the correct
Selective Switch Network Access Code and the correct
talkgroup.
Special electronic circuitry, added to the
receiver of a radio, that reduces, or cuts off,
Squelch
unwanted signals before they are heard in
the speaker.
An operating condition whereby the radio's
Standby speaker is muted but still continues to
receive data.
Pre-defined text messages that allow the
Status Calls user to send a conditional message without
talking.
The user talks on the channel that was
Tactical/
selected before the radio entered the
Non-Revert
emergency state.
Bypass a repeater and talk directly to
Talkaround another unit for easy local unit-to-unit
communications.
Definition