User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Basic Operating Procedures
- General Radio Features
- Often-Used Features
- Emergency Call and Alarm
- Scan Operation
- Turning On Scan
- Turning Scan On While Disregarding the Squelch Code (Conventional Modes Only)
- Viewing a Scan List
- Transmitting While Scan Is On
- Temporarily Deleting a Nuisance Mode with Scan On (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Restoring a Nuisance Mode (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Changing Mode Priorities While Scan Is On (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Restoring Mode Priorities in a Scan List (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Programming a Scan List
- Hang Up Box (HUB)
- Optional External Alarms (Horn and Lights)
- Time-Out Timer
- Push-To-Talk Identification (PTT-ID)
- Telephone Interconnect List (Conventional and Trunking)
- Unlimited Telephone Interconnect (W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
- Call Alert Page (Conventional and Trunking— Digital Modes Only)
- Conventional Radio Features
- Trunking Operation
- Secure Operation
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
- W7 and W9 Control Heads Foldout Page
ASTRO XTL 5000 Digital Mobile Radio with W4, W5, W7, and W9 55
General Radio Features
Editing a Name in the List
(W7 and W9 Control Heads Only)
The Selective Call and Call Alert page features share the same
prestored list of unit IDs.
1 Press and hold , , or to enter Call
ID list programming.
The Call indicator flashes and a high-pitched tone sounds.
2 Press the Mode rocker switch to locate the list member you
want to change.
OR
Use the numbered keys to go immediately to the location of a
member in the list. For example, press 2 to go to the second
member in the list; press 1 and 0 to go to the tenth member in
the list, and so on.
3 Press and hold to select the name- editing function.
4 Change the characters or numbers using any of the numeric
keys (0 through 9) and special function keys
(
*, #).
Note: The maximum number of characters permitted in a text line
is 8 for W7 Control Head and 11 for W9 Control Head. If you
try to add too many characters, you will hear a low-pitched
tone.
To edit, do any or all of the following:
• To enter a character at the blinking cursor, refer to the table
on page 49.
Press the key of the desired character the number of times
shown in the table. For example, to enter the character C,
press the 2 key three times.
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