Motorola MTH800 Emergency Operation, Changing Folder or Group, Entering or Exiting Emergency Mode

The Emergency Mode allows you to use the PTT to transmit with Emergency priority (by either initiating an Emergency Group Call or requesting emergency transmit priority).

After entering Emergency Mode, you may send an Emergency Alarm (if configured) and then start the Emergency Group Call and activate Hot Microphone (if configured).

The Emergency Alarm is a special Status message sent to the infrastructure before the Emergency Group Call starts. The terminal may wait for infrastructure acknowledge for this Alarm and attempt retries. Each time you press the Emergency button, the terminal will send an Emergency Alarm.

Hot Mic (Hot Microphone) allows you to talk without pressing the PTT. Pressing PTT during Hot Mic ends Hot Mic transmission. Pressing the End soft key ends Hot Mic activity. If Hot Mic is disabled, then use PTT to talk.

•Emergency Private Call (half-duplex or full-duplex) The terminal will start an Emergency Private Call to a pre- defined ID when you press and hold the Emergency button.

If an Emergency Private Call gets modified to an Emergency Group Call, the terminal will enter Emergency Mode and will leave the Emergency Mode when the call ends.

Changing Folder or Group

See Group Call section on page 32.

Entering or Exiting Emergency Mode

Upon entry into Emergency Mode any existing call or service other than packet data service will be aborted or cleared down.

In Emergency Mode, the terminal will automatically reject Phone, PABX and Private Calls, and will not monitor the groups in the user selected scan list. If an ATG is the selected group, however, the terminal will monitor the sub-

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