General Radio Operation; Selecting A Zone - Motorola APX 3000 Quick Reference Card

General Radio Operation

Once you understand how your APX Portable is configured, you
are ready to use your radio.
Use this navigation guide to familiarize yourself with the basic
Call features:
Selecting a Zone† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 24
Selecting a Radio Channel† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25
Using Mode Select Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 26
Saving a Zone and Channel to a Mode Select Button†. . . . .
page 26
Saving a Zone and Channel to a Button† . . . . . . . . page 26
Receiving and Responding to a Radio Call. . . . . . . . . page 27
Receiving and Responding to a Call‡ . . . . . . . . . . . page 27
Receiving and Responding to a Private Call (Trunking
Only)†‡
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
Receiving and Responding to a Telephone Call (Trunking
Only)†‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
Making a Radio Call† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
Repeater or Direct Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
Monitoring Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
Monitoring a Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
Conventional Mode Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
See Voice Announcement†on page 57to understand how the
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Selecting a Zone†
A zone is a group of channels.
Use the following procedure to select a zone.
Note: Your radio must be preprogrammed to allow you to use
this feature.
Procedure:
1
If Selecting a Zone is the secondary function of the Up and
Down Arrow Buttons, short press the MFB to toggle to
Selecting a Zone mode. You hear the Secondary Mode tone
and associated Voice Announcement if configured.
OR
If Zone Up or Down feature is pre-programmed on a
programmable button, skip to step 2.
OR
If Selecting a Zone is the primary function of Up and Down
Arrow Buttons, skip to step 2.
2
Press the Up and Down Arrow Buttons, or preprogrammed
Zone Up or Zone Down buttons to toggle the zone list
backward or forward.If configured, you hear Voice
Announcement of the selected zone.
3
Press the PTT button to transmit on the selected zone
channel.
Voice Announcement works.