GLOSSARY | MTSX RSS |
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Get | The means by which a radio’s personality is transferred from a personality file to the |
| workspace. |
Group | A collection of radios which communicate together. |
Handshaking | Refers to the data interchange that takes place between radio and Central Controller via the |
| control and voice channels, such that each knows that the other is present on the channel |
| and ready to exchange information or allow a voice conversation to proceed. |
Hard Disk | An alterable permanent data storage medium that has a much larger storage capacity than a |
| diskette. |
Hardware | A physical collection of PC boards, solid state devices, and interconnect cabling that you can |
| touch and see. |
Help | An |
| any time for additional information about the current menu or highlighted data field. |
Highlighting | Displaying the text on the monitor by using dark letters on a light background. |
Home channel | The channel the user was on prior to pushing the scan button. |
Home Revert | The channel the user will revert to when PTT is pressed while in scan unless scan talkback |
| feature is enabled. Defines the transmit channel requirement for a feature. Typically refers |
| to scan mode operation. |
HZ | Hertz, or cycles per second. |
Increment | To increase a value by one unit or step. |
Inverse Video | Displaying text on the monitor by using light letters on a dark background. |
A Motorola proprietary signalling format. It is a binary format using 1200 baud minimum shift | |
| keying modulation. |
Menu | A menu contains a list of functions that can be selected and performed by the RSS user by |
| pressing a function key. A menu contains a list of functions. Also see Screens. |
Message | Upon releasing the PTT, the portable radio will remain on the voice channel for a |
Trunking | preprogrammed period of time. This allows a response to be made by the other members of |
| the talkgroup without returning to the control channel for another voice channel assignment. |
| Message trunking is commonly referred to as Hang Time on the repeater. Message Trunking |
| Systems generate less Control Channel traffic per conversation than Transmission Trunking |
| Systems. |
MHz | Megahertz, or millions of cycles per second. |
Mode | A mode is a collection of parameter values, such as frequency, PL codes, and scan lists. |
| Often used interchangably with the terms channel or personality in the RSS manual. |
| MicroSoft Disk Operating System. DOS is a group of programs that control the way the |
| computer interfaces with other programs, tells the computer how to use, read and return |
| information to and from application programs and how to organize and use the information |
| on disks. |
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