Monitoring Conventional Mode - Motorola APX 5500 User Manual

c. Adjust the Volume Rocker if necessary.
d. If you hear no activity, press and hold the PTT button to start your conversation.
• Monitoring a Channel in Trunked Modes:
a. Lift the microphone off the hook.
b. Press the PTT button.
c. If you hear two, short, high-pitched tones, or if you hear no tone and the
steadily, then proceed with your message.
d. Release the PTT button to receive transmission.
If you are not in the range of the system, you may hear a continuous low-pitched tone and the display
shows Out of range.
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Monitoring Conventional Mode

Prerequisites: This feature must first be enabled by a qualified radio technician or system
administrator.
When and where to use:
This feature allows you to monitor channel traffic on conventional channels by defeating the coded
squelch. Thus, you can to listen to another user active on the channel. This way, you may be
prevented from taking over someone else's conversation.
Procedure:
1 To activate monitoring, perform one of the following actions:
• At Home mode where the default zone and channel are being displayed,
press the Menu Select button directly below Mon momentarily.
• Take the control head off the hook.
The display shows Monitor On. You hear all channel traffic.
2 Press the Menu Select button again to deactivate the monitoring.
The display shows Monitor off.
Pressing the Menu Select button again turns monitor off and you don't hear all channel traffic. If you
try to transmit on a receive-only channel, you hear an invalid tone until you release the PTT button.
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or to Mon and
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