Radio Tuning, Programming, Cloning, Lowband Antenna Cutting Procedure, PassPort Tone Options, and Diagnostic Functions 5-7

5.8 HT1250•LS+ PassPort Tone Options

In order to provide more detailed information about the radio’s state to a user or service technician
various Tones and Display options are available.
One Tone option is a short low pitched tone that sounds whenever the radio loses contact for any
reason with its r egistered PassPort site and begins to search for another site. This Tone is enabled by
the “Enable LOS Search start tone” option.
Service technicians who are determining system coverage and RSSI settings may want to be able to
discriminate between the LOS (Loss of System) for complete loss of data from the site or when the
site RSSI drops below required levels. A second Tone following the first LOS Tone indicating that LOS
was caused by complete LOS of Passport data from the site and not low.
RSSI can be activated with the “Enable LOS CRC Search start tone” option.
Enable just the “Enable LOS Search start tone” option. Allow the radio to register. Turn off the Home
repeater. The radio will sound a single tone and start to search. Turn on the Home repeater. Allow the
radio to register . Remove the antenna. The radio will sound a single tone and start to search. Replace
the antenna.
Enable the “Enable LOS CRC Search start tone” option also. Allow the radio to register. Turn off the
Home repeater. The radio will sound two tones and st art to search. Turn on the Home repeater . Allow
the radio to register. Remove the antenna. The radio will sound a single tone and start to search.

5.9 HT1250•LS+ Special Diagnostic Functions

Some special diagnosis functions can be turned on “as needed” basis by accessing the “Service
Menu”. In order to enter this menu please proceed as follows
1) Press the Menu Key. (You don't need to be registered).
2) Quickly press the P1 then the P2 key.
3) Service Menu appears on the screen.
4) Press the Menu key to select it.
A series of functions then become available to you as you scroll up and down. They are as follows:
PassPort ESN: Enter the Service Menu and using the Up/Dn keys scroll to “PassPort ESN”. Press
the Select key. Use the Up/Dn and Select Keys to activate or deactivate this function. This function
momentarily displays the radio's PassPort Electronic Serial Number.
PassPort Information Report - Enter the Service Menu and using the Up/Dn keys scroll to “Rep ort”.
Press the Select key. The display will sequentially show, the search method preference, the number
of NearNeighbors from the last registered site neighbor list, All Neighbors, the total number of unique
stored Neighbor frequencies and then display the known list of Neighbor Frequencies. The report will
complete and the radio will search and re-register.
Monitor - This Ser vice Menu option defeats PassPort coded sque lch and allows a technician to he ar
all transmissions on the system. This function can be enabled or disabled using th e PassPort CPS
(PPCPS).
Show RSSI - Enter the Service Menu and using the Up/Dn keys scroll to “Show RSSI”. Press the
Select key. Use the Up/Dn and Select Keys to activate or deactivate this function. This diagnostic
momentarily displays the ASID and RSSI of all received site IDLE messages in the format “WXXX-
YYY-ZZZ” where W is a “-” on an Idle channel and a “+” on a busy one, XXX is the ASID of the site,
YYY is the RSSI of the message just received and ZZZ is the current running av erage RSSI. This can
be helpful in determining RSSI roaming settings. Also while this feature is enabled and the radio is
searching, each new search frequency is momentarily displayed in order to tr ack the ra dio's progress
through the known frequencies.
Search Freq-(Enter Search Frequencies): Enter the Service Menu an d using the Up/Dn keys scroll to
“Search Freq”. Press the Select key. Using the numeric keys and Left (P1) key for backup/delete a nd