Glossary - Motorola APX 2000 2 User Manual

Glossary

This glossary is a list of specialized terms used in this manual.
Term
ACK Acknowledgment of communication.
Active Channel A channel that has traffic on it.
An RF signal that has a continuous nature
Analog Signal
rather than a pulsed or discrete nature.
ARS Automatic Registration Service
Motorola standard for wireless digital
ASTRO 25
trunked communications.
ASTRO Motorola standard for wireless digital
Conventional conventional communications.
A feature that allows the radio to
Autoscan automatically scan the members of a scan
list.
Bluetooth is an open wireless technology
standard for exchanging data over short
Bluetooth
distances from fixed and mobile devices
with high levels of security.
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Term
Bluetooth pairing occurs when two
Bluetooth bluetooth devices exchanged a passkey to
Pairing form a paired Bluetooth wireless
connection.
Privately page an individual by sending an
Call Alert
audible tone.
Feature that responds to the presence of
an RF carrier by opening or unmuting
(turning on) a receiver's audio circuit. A
Carrier Squelch
squelch circuit silences the radio when no
signal is being received so that the user
does not have to listen to "noise".
A software-controlled, computer-driven
device that receives and generates data for
Central
the trunked radios assigned to it. It
Controller
monitors and directs the operations of the
trunked repeaters.
A group of characteristics such as transmit/
Channel receive frequency pairs, radio parameters,
and encryption encoding.
In a trunking system, one of the channels
that is used to provide a continuous, two-
Control Channel way/data communications path between
the central controller and all radios on the
system.
Definition