Motorola SABER I User Manual page 90

Limited Patience Timer (Polite Emergency)
When selecting this
optaon,
you wi!! be prompted
lor
a value between 1 and 255 seconds. ln
between Polite Ercrgency data pack transmissions, the radio will wail this length of
tame
lor the
channel
to become free. lf this timer expires, the Emergency packet is sent out, whether or not
the channel
is
free.
lf this
optbn
is not selected, the
timerwil! be
set
to
0
providing
"lnfinite Patience".
Renrote
Monitor
Selecting this option allows the dispatcherto activate the transmil audio circuitry of the radio and
monitor
audb activity
arounC
the radio. Upon receiving a remote
monator
@mmard, the radio will
key up the transmitter, acknowledge the
command, set the PTT unit
lD, and
activate the
microphone.
ll
a
second microphone is attached, its audio wilt be transmitted instead. The
transmission will last for the
tame
specilaed in
the argument of the rernote monitor command. After
the transmission time, the radio dekeys and retums to normaloperation.
ll the
radio is inhibited, transmission lollowing the receipt
ol a Rernote Monitor command will
ahrays be silent.
lf the
radio is processing normal Remote Monitor and the silent
bit
in
the Remote Monilor
command is set, the radio walloperate silent, wilhout turning the red LED
on
lorlransmissbn and
wilhout issuing side tones. CIhenrise, sidetones and LED operation wilt go on just as il the user
had pressed
the
PTT.
lf
Emeqency is enabled and activated while normal Bemote Monitor transmission is taking
place, the
Rernote Monitor transmission will be
canceled and
the radio
will
enter
the normal
Emergerrcy Cycle.
Call
Alert is
a
type ol pagirE lunction initiated by the dispatcher to get the attention ol a
radio
that
is
rot
responding to normal
activity. Upon receiving
the
Call Alert from the dispatcher, the target
radio
will sound a sedes ol Alert tones and display
a
llashing visual indicator.
MDC
Alert Tones
When
the MDC Alert
Tone
option is enabled, incoming MDC Selective Calls are preceded by a
series ol audible Aleil Tones in order to alert the user. The Alert Tones are followed by the voice
message.
!f
this option is not selected, no Alert
Tones
will sound. Only the voice message will be
heard.
MDC
lndlvidual Selective
Call
Selective Call elminales the annoyance of
users having to listen to tratlic that has nothing to do
wilh them. Sel Cal is used to "sel up" the callwlth the receiving unit, and to allow announcement
type messages to an individual or group units.
lndividual Selective Call allows each radio equipped with a decoder
to
examine
the MDC
data
Packet and respond only to calls
addressed
to them by alerting the user and
automatically
unmuting
the speaker audio. After the transmission
as
complete,
the radio automatically returns to
the
nuuted
standby state. Users may not respond directly to a Selective Call.
Emergency Acknowledge Retry Timer
Upon selecting this oplion, you will be prompted
to enter a value between 0 and 15 seconds.
This value specifies the amounl o,
tame
that the radio will wait belore sending another
Emergency data packet when an ackrowledgment has not been received from a previous dala
packet
transmission.
Appendix - 5. Options List and
Delinitions
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