Ericsson EDACS M-RK-II User manual

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EDACS®M-RK-II
PORTABLE RADIO
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Operator’s Manual

Copyright © October 1992, Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc.
This manual is published by Ericsson Inc., without any warranty. Improve-
ments and changes to this manual necessitated by typographical errors,
inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs and/or
equipment, may be made by Ericsson Inc., at any time and without notice.
Such changes will be incorportated into new editions of this manual. No part
of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form orby any means,
electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any
purpose, without the express written permission ofEricsson Inc.
NOTICE!
The software contained in this device is copyrighted by Ericsson Inc.
Unpublished rights are reserved under the copyright laws of the United
States.
NOTE
Repairs to this equipment should be made only by an authorized service
technician or facility designated by the supplier. Any repairs, alterations or
substitution of recommended parts made by the user to this equipment not
approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate the
equipment in addition to the manufacturer’s warranty.
NOTICE!
This manual covers Ericsson and General Electric products manufactured
and sold by Ericsson Inc.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
USER INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
BUTTONS AND KNOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
KEYPAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
UNIVERSAL DEVICE CONNECTOR (UDC) . . . 24
ALERT TONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Call Originate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Autokey (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . 25
Call Queued (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . 25
System Busy (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . 26
Call Denied (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . 26
Carrier Control Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Low Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Low Battery Alert (Transmit Lockout) . . . . 27
Key Press Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
TURNING ON THE RADIO . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SELECTION MODE RULES . . . . . . . . . . . 28
MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SYSTEM/GROUP/CHANNEL SELECTION . . . 34
System Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Group And Channel Selection . . . . . . . . 36
TRUNKED MODE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . 37
Receiving A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sending A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Emergency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Receiving An Emergency Call . . . . . 39
Declaring An Emergency Call . . . . . . 40
Wide Area System Scanning . . . . . . . . 41
ProSound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scanning Trunked Groups . . . . . . . . . . 42
Adding Groups To A Scan List . . . . . 42
Deleting Groups From A Scan List . . . 42
Turning Scan On . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Turning Scan Off . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
INDIVIDUAL CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Receiving And Responding To An Individual
Call (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . 44
Sending An Individual Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
TELEPHONE INTERCONNECT CALLS . . . . 46
Receiving A Telephone Interconnect Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Sending A Telephone Interconnect Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
DTMF Overdial / Conventional Mode
Telephone Interconnect . . . . . . . . . . . 48
PROGRAMMABLE ENTRIES . . . . . . . . . . 49
CONVENTIONAL MODE OPERATION . . . . . 50
Receiving A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Sending A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Emergency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using 5-Tone Signalling for
Emergency Declaration . . . . . . . . 54
Tone Encode Transmission . . . . . . . . . 54
Scanning Conventional Channels . . . . . . 55
Adding Groups To A Scan List . . . . . . . 56
Deleting Groups From A Scan List . . . 56
Turning Scan On . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Turning Scan Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
AEGISAND VOICE GUARD OPERATION . . . 58
VOICE MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Clear Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Aegis Digital Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
DTMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Aegis Private And Voice Guard Private Modes
Transferring Keys Into The Radio . . . . 63
Displaying The Currently Used
Cryptographic Key Number . . . . . . 64
Key Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Private Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Receiving An Encrypted Call . . . . . . 65
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Transmitting An Encrypted Call . . . . . 66
Scanned Group Calls . . . . . . . . . . 67
PORTABLE DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
DISPLAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
DATA OFF OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
DATA ON OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
EXITING DATA CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SCAN LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
DATA LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
STATUS/MESSAGE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . 71
STATUS OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
MESSAGE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
EDACS CONVENTIONAL P1 SCAN . . . . . . . . 73
DYNAMIC REGROUP OPERATION . . . . . . . . 73
EMERGENCY OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . 74
MACRO KEY OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
OPERATING RULES AND REGULATIONS . . . . 75
OPERATING TIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
CHARGING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 77
RECHARGEABLE BATTERY PACK DISPOSAL . 78
INSTALLING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 78
REMOVING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 78
INTRINSICALLY SAFE USAGE . . . . . . . . . . 79
BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
ACCESSORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
OPERATOR’S RADIO SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . 85
WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
NICKEL-CADMIUM BATTERY WARRANTY . . . . 87
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INTRODUCTION
This manual describes how to use the EDACS M-RK
II Portable Radio. The M-RK II is a synthesized, micro-
processor-based, high performance portable FM radio
providing reliable two-way communications in both the
Enhanced Digital Access Communications System
(EDACS) trunking environment and conventional com-
munication systems.
In the EDACS or trunked system mode, the user
selects a communications system and group. In this
mode, channel selection is transparent to the user and
is controlled via digital communication with the system
controller. This provides advanced programmable fea-
tures and fast access to communication channels.
In the conventional mode, the user selects a channel
anddirectly communicateson thatchannel.Inthismode,
a system refers to a set of channels. A channel is a
transmit/receive radio frequency pair.
The exact operation of the radio will depend on the
operating mode, the radio’s programming, and the par-
ticular radio system. Most features described in this
manual may be enabled or disabled through program-
ming.Consult the system administrator for the particular
features that are programmed into the M-RK II.
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USER INTERFACE
The M-RK II operating controls are located on the
radio’s front, top and left panels. A 15-button keypad,
liquid crystal display (LCD) for radio status information,
microphone and speaker are on the front panel.The top
panel houses a rotary SYSTEM/GROUP/CHANNEL
knob, POWER ON-OFF/VOLUME control knob and a
protected red EMERGENCY button.An OPTION button,
CLEAR/MONITOR button and the Push-To-Talk (PTT)
buttonarealllocatedontheleftsidepanel.TheUniversal
Device Connector (UDC) is located on the right panel
and is used while programming the radio and for acces-
sory connection.
The keypad is used for manual number entry for
individual calls, access to a telephone interconnect sys-
tem, and activation of various EDACS or conventional
features such as menu selection or scan operations.
The display has two, eight-alphanumeric-character
lines used to show the operational mode of the radio.15
status indicators, used to indicate various operating con-
ditions such as transmitter on, channel busy, scanning,
or low battery, are located above and to the right side of
the character lines within the display. A back light illumi-
nates the display and the keypad for nighttime use.
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SYSTEM/GROUP
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POWER ON-OFF
/VOLUME knob
Push-To-Talk
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Battery latch
Battery
Antenna
Display
Universal
Device
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Keypad
Speaker
Figure 1 - M-RK II Portable Radio
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/MONITOR button
Push-To-Talk
(PTT) button
Battery latch
EMERGENY
button
Figure 2 - Top And Partial Left Panel Views
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