Monitoring Conventional Mode - Motorola APX 8500 Manual

Monitor Features

Monitoring Conventional Mode

This feature allows you to monitor channel traffic on conventional channels by defeating the coded squelch.
Thus, you can to listen to another active user on the channel. This way, you may be prevented from talking
over someone else's conversation.
Your radio may be preprogrammed to receive Private-Line
Procedure:
1. To activate monitoring, perform one of the following actions:
At Home mode where the default zone and channel are being displayed, scroll left or right to Mon and
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press the Menu Select button directly below Mon momentarily.
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Take the control head of 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 do not 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.
GENERAL RADIO OPERATION
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(PL) calls.
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