EFJohnson 8500 - page 37

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Busy Queuing

The busy queuingfeature places the call in a queue if the repeater

systemis busy when the call is placed. Then when the system becomes

available,a tone sounds and the call can be placed if desired. Busy

queuing iseither enabled or disabled on all Multi-Net systems by system

operatorprogramming. It functions with both standard and special calls.

It is notavailable on LTR or conventional systems.

The BusyQueuing feature operates as follows: If the radio system is

busy,the busy tone sounds. (Without queuing,no tone sounds because the

clear-to-talktone sounds only when a successful access is made.) The

queue modeis then entered automatically when the PTT switch is

released.The queue mode is indicated when “QUEUED” is displayed

and the busytone turns off. Then when the system becomes available,

eithera beeping tone or dial tone sounds. The beeping tone is heard if a

standardcall is being made, and the dial tone is heard if a special call is

being made.The call can then be placed in the normal manner.

If no callis placed soon after the tone sounds, the queue mode is

automaticallyexited and normal operation resumes. The queue mode is

also exitedif a call is received on the selected group, the system/group is

changed,the push-to-talk switch is pressed, or any other keys directly

under thedisplay are pressed (while no call is being received).

Calls arereceived normally while in the queue mode. Group scan-

ning continuesif it is programmed on the selected system. However,

systemscanning is temporarily disabled, so calls are not received on

other systems.If a call is received on some other group while in queue,

you can respondto the call without affecting the queued call. Normal

queuing ofa call resumes shortly after the call on the other group is

finished.

System Operator Programming

As noted in the descriptionsof many of the features of this trans-

ceiver,programming by your system operator may determine availability

and howthey operate. If you require more information on how a partic-