Passport Tone Options; Special Diagnostic Functions - Motorola HT1250-LS+ Basic Service Manual

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5.6

PassPort Tone Options

In order to provide more detailed information about the radio's state to a user or service technician
various Tones and Display options are available.
One Tone option is a short low pitched tone that sounds whenever the radio loses contact for any
reason with its registered PassPort site and begins to search for another site. This Tone is enabled by
the "Enable LOS Search start tone" option.
Service technicians who are determining system coverage and RSSI settings may want to be able to
discriminate between the LOS (Loss of System) for complete loss of data from the site or when the
site RSSI drops below required levels. A second Tone following the first LOS Tone indicating that LOS
was caused by complete LOS of Passport data from the site and not low.
RSSI can be activated with the "Enable LOS CRC Search start tone" option.
Enable just the "Enable LOS Search start tone" option. Allow the radio to register. Turn off the Home
repeater. The radio will sound a single tone and start to search. Turn on the Home repeater. Allow the
radio to register. Remove the antenna. The radio sounds a single tone and starts to search. Replace
the antenna.
Enable the "Enable LOS CRC Search start tone" option also. Allow the radio to register. Turn off the
Home repeater. The radio sounds two tones and starts to search. Turn on the Home repeater. Allow
the radio to register. Remove the antenna. The radio sounds a single tone and starts to search.
5.7

Special Diagnostic Functions

Some special diagnosis functions can be turned on "as needed" by accessing the "Service Menu". In
order to enter this menu please proceed as follows:
1) Press the Menu Key. (You don't need to be registered).
2) Quickly press the P1 then the P3 key.
3) Service Menu appears on the screen.
4) Press the Menu key to select it.
A series of functions then become available to you as you scroll up and down. They are as follows:
PassPort ESN: Enter the Service Menu and using the Up/Dn keys scroll to "PassPort ESN". Press
the Select key. Use the Up/Dn and Select Keys to activate or deactivate this function. This function
momentarily displays the radio's PassPort Electronic Serial Number.
PassPort Information Report - Enter the Service Menu and using the Up/Dn keys scroll to "Report".
Press the Select key. The display sequentially shows the search method preference, the number of
Near Neighbors from the last registered site neighbor list, All Neighbors, the total number of unique
stored Neighbor frequencies, and the known list of Neighbor Frequencies. The report completes and
the radio searchs and re-registers.
Monitor - This Service Menu option defeats PassPort coded squelch and allows a technician to hear
all transmissions on the system. This function can be enabled or disabled using the PassPort CPS
(PPCPS).
Show RSSI - Enter the Service Menu and using the Up/Dn keys scroll to "Show RSSI". Press the
Select key. Use the Up/Dn and Select Keys to activate or deactivate this function. This diagnostic
momentarily displays the ASID and RSSI of all received site IDLE messages in the format " WXXX-
YYY-ZZZ " where W is a "-" on an Idle channel and a "+" on a busy one, XXX is the ASID of the site,
YYY is the RSSI of the message just received and ZZZ is the current running average RSSI. This can
be helpful in determining RSSI roaming settings. Also while this feature is enabled and the radio is
searching, each new search frequency is momentarily displayed in order to track the radio's progress
through the known frequencies.
Radio Tuning, Programming, Cloning, PassPort Tone Options and Diagnostic Functions