Motorola i930 manual Setting Up and Joining Talkgroups, Making and Receiving Group Calls

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Group Calls

A group call is similar to a Private call, but is made to all members of a Talkgroup at once. A Talkgroup is a predetermined group of your service provider’s customers.

Before you can make or receive group calls, a Talkgroup must be established. After the Talkgroup is established, you must join the Talkgroup.

Setting Up and Joining Talkgroups

Your sales representative or your service provider establishes Talkgroups for you and assigns each Talkgroup a Talkgroup number. You can choose a name for each of your Talkgroups when you create entries for them in Contacts.

To receive group calls made to any of these Talkgroups, you must join the Talkgroup.

Join a Talkgroup

1On the Home screen, select Start.

2Select Contacts.

3Scroll to the Talkgroup you want to join.

4Select Menu and then select Alert/Join.

Note: You can only monitor one Talkgroup at a time.

Making and Receiving Group Calls

Make a group call

1Enter the Talkgroup number:

•Press #. Then enter the Talkgroup number using the keypad.

•Choose the Talkgroup name from Contacts or the recent call list.

2Proceed as if making a Private call.

Answer a group call

•Proceed as if answering a Private call. Only one person at a time may speak on a group call.

The Private ID or name of the person who is speaking will appear on the display below the Talkgroup number.

Turning Off Group Calls

If you don’t want hear any calls to your Talkgroup, you can set your Smartphone to silence all group calls.

Silence all group calls

1On the Home screen, select Start.

2Select Settings and then PTT.

3Select PTT Group Silent.

4In PTT Group Silent, select On.

5Select Done.

When you want to hear group calls again, select Off in step 4.