Motorola XPR 5550 manual Selecting a Channel, Receiving and Responding to a Radio Call

Selecting a Channel

Transmissions are sent and received on a channel. Depending on your radio's configuration, each channel may have been programmed differently to support different groups of users or supplied with different features. After selecting the required zone, select the channel you require to transmit or receive on.

Procedure:

Receiving and Responding to a Radio Call

Once the channel, subscriber alias or ID, or group alias or ID is displayed, you can proceed to receive and respond to

calls.

The green LED lights up

while the radio is transmitting Green

Calls

Select a channel by using:

• Scroll Up/Down buttons, OR

and blinks when the radio is receiving.

LED

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• Volume/Channel Knob, OR

• The programmed Channel Up or Channel Down buttons

See Selecting a Zone on page 17 for more information on selecting your required zone.

See Switching Between Conventional Analog and Digital Mode on page 7 for information about Scroll Up/Down buttons.

See Using the Volume/Channel Knob on page 8 for information about using the Volume/Channel Knob.

See Programmable Buttons on page 4 for information about the Channel Up or Channel Down buttons.

NOTE: The green LED lights up while the radio is transmitting and double blinks when the radio is receiving a privacy- enabled call.

To unscramble a privacy-enabled call, your radio must have the same Privacy Key, or the same Key Value and Key ID (programmed by your dealer) as the transmitting radio (the radio you are receiving the call from).

See Privacy on page 59 for more information.

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