Ericsson LBI-39125A User manual

EDACS®
M-RK-II SCAN
PORTABLE RADIO
Operator’s Manual
LBI-39125A
ERICSSONZ

Copyright © October 1994, Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc.
NOTICE!
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NOTE!
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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.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
USER INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
BUTTONS AND KNOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
KEYPAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
UNIVERSAL DEVICE CONNECTOR (UDC) . . . 23
ALERT TONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Call Originate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Autokey (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . 24
Call Queued (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . 24
System Busy (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . 25
Call Denied (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . 25
Carrier Control Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Low Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Low Battery Alert (Transmit Lockout) . . . . 26
Key Press Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
TURNING ON THE RADIO . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SELECTION MODE RULES . . . . . . . . . . . 27
BUTTON AND KEYPAD REASSIGNMENT . . . 32
SYSTEM/GROUP/CHANNEL SELECTION . . . 33
System Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Group And Channel Selection . . . . . . . . 35
TRUNKED MODE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . 36
Receiving A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Sending A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Emergency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Receiving An Emergency Call . . . . . 38
Declaring An Emergency Call . . . . . . 39
Wide Area System Scanning . . . . . . . . 40
ProSound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Scanning Trunked Groups . . . . . . . . . . 41
Adding and Deleting Groups on
Scan List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Turning Scan On . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Turning Scan Off . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
INDIVIDUAL CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Receiving And Responding To An Individual Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Sending An Individual Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
TELEPHONE INTERCONNECT CALLS . . . . 45
Receiving A Telephone Interconnect Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Sending A Telephone Interconnect Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
DTMF Overdial / Conventional Mode
Telephone Interconnect . . . . . . . . . . . 47
PORTABLE DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
DISPLAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
DATA OFF OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
DATA ON OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
EXITING DATA CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SCAN LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
DATA LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
STATUS OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
STATUS OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
EDACS CONVENTIONAL P1 SCAN . . . . . . . 53
DYNAMIC REGROUP OPERATION . . . . . . . 53
EMERGENCY OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . 54
CONVENTIONAL MODE OPERATION . . . . . 54
Receiving A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Sending A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Emergency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using 5-Tone Signalling for
Emergency Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Tone Encode Transmission . . . . . . . . . 58
Scanning Conventional Channels . . . . . . 58
Adding and Deleting Channels on Scan List 59
Turning Scan On . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Turning Scan Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AEGIS AND VOICE GUARD OPERATION . . . . 61
VOICE MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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Clear Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Aegis Digital Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
DTMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Aegis Private And Voice Guard
Private Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Transferring Keys Into The Radio . . . . 66
Displaying The Currently Used
Cryptographic Key Number . . . . . . . 67
Key Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Private Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Receiving An Encrypted Call . . . . . . 68
Transmitting An Encrypted Call . . . . . 69
Scanned Group Calls . . . . . . . . . . 70
MACRO KEY OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
OPERATING RULES AND REGULATIONS . . . . 71
OPERATING TIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHARGING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 73
RECHARGEABLE BATTERY PACK DISPOSAL . 74
INSTALLING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . 75
REMOVING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . 76
INTRINSICALLY SAFE USAGE . . . . . . . . . . 76
BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ACCESSORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
OPERATOR’S RADIO SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . 81
WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
NICKEL-CADMIUM BATTERY WARRANTY . . . . 83
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INTRODUCTION
This manual describes how to use the EDACS M-RK
II Scan Portable Radio. The M-RK II Scan is a synthe-
sized, microprocessor-based, high performance port-
able FM radio providing reliable two-way communica-
tions in both the Enhanced Digital Access Communica-
tions System (EDACS) trunking environment and con-
ventional communication 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
anddirectlycommunicatesonthatchannel.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 Scan.
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USER INTERFACE
The M-RK II Scan operating controls are located on
the radio’s front, top and left panels. A 6-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 EMERGENCYbutton. 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 activation of various EDACS
or conventional features such as menu selection orscan
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 operatingcon-
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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Figure 1 - M-RK II Scan Portable Radio
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Figure 2 - Top And Partial Left Panel Views
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BUTTONS AND KNOBS
This section describes the primary function of the
button and knob controls. Other functions associated
with these controls are detailed in later sections.
SYSTEM/
GROUP/
CHANNEL
KNOB
Selects systems or groups/channels
(depending on programming). This
is a 16 - position rotary knob. See
SYSTEM/ GROUP/CHANNEL SE-
LECTIONfordetails.
POWER
ON-OFF/
VOLUME
KNOB
Applies power to the radio and ad-
justs the receiver’s volume. Rotating
the control clockwise out of detent
applies power to the radio. A single
alerttonesounds(ifenabledthrough
programming)toindicatetheradiois
operational.
Rotating the control clockwise in-
creases the volume level. Minimum
volume levels may be programmed
into the radioto prevent missedcalls
due to a low volume setting. While
adjusting the volume the display will
momentarily indicate the volume
level (i.e. VOL = 31). The volume
range is from a minimum pro-
grammed level of zero (displayed as
OFF in the display) up to 31 which is
theloudestlevel.
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EMER-
GENCY
BUTTON
Provides single button emergency
channel access. See the EDACS
and conventional emergency sec-
tionsformoredetails.
OPTION
BUTTON
(Side)
Programmablepersystem.
CLEAR/
MONITOR
BUTTON
Serves several purposes depending
on the operating mode. In trunked
mode,theCLEAR/MONITORbutton
exits the current operation and re-
movesalldisplaysassociatedwithit.
The radio and display then return to
the group receive state. In conven-
tional mode, pressing this button un-
mutes the receiver so activity on the
selected channel can be monitored.
When pressed and held for approxi-
mately 3 seconds, this button tog-
gles conventional channel decod-
ing/encoding (Channel Guard, Digi-
tal Channel Guard, T99)on and off if
programmed for the selected chan-
nelandscandisabled.
PUSH-TO-
TALK BUT-
TON (PTT)
Enables the radio’s transmitter. Re-
leasing PTT returns the radio to the
receivemode.
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KEYPAD
The keypad layout has a total of 6 keys. The keys
have special functions and are labeled as such using a
symbol or abbreviated word describing its primary func-
tion. Numeric entry is a secondary function of the keys.
Each key is described below.
,
.
Primary function - changes the sys-
temor group/channel(dependingon
programming); secondary function -
changes to a selection for items
within a list. Press
,
to scroll in
increasingorder,
.
toscrollinde-
creasing order. To auto-ramp press
andholdthekey.
Figure 3 - M-RK II Scan Keypad
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m
Primary function - accesses the
menu list. This is a list of additional
features that are not available di-
rectly from the keypad. See MENU
fordetails.Secondaryfunction-acti-
vates a selected item within a list.
After the menu list is accessed, se-
lect a menu item from the list via
,
or
.
andactivateitwiththis
key.Onceactivated,
m
continues
its secondary function for activating
aselectedparametersettinguntilthe
radio returns to its normal receive
state.Thisissimilartoanenterkey.
o
Programmablepersystem.
a
Adds or deletes selected groups or
channelsfromthescanlistofthecur-
rently selected system. See trunked
and conventional scan section for
details.
s
Toggles scan operation on and off.
When the radio is scanning, SCN is
on and all groups or channels in the
scanlistofthecurrentlyselectedsys-
temarescanned.
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DISPLAY
Theradio’sdisplayisshownbelow.Thetwocharacter
lines are used to display system, group and channel
names and also operational messages to the user. Each
line contains eight alphanumeric character blocks. The
15 status indicators are used to show the various oper-
ating conditions of the radio. If the display back-lighting
is programmed on, the display will illuminate for a short
period when any of the controls are operated.
The two display lines can be inverted to permit easy
viewing if the radio is worn on a belt or placed into a
vehicular charger. Refer to the MENU section to change
the display (invert or contrast).
Line 1
Line 2
Figure 4 - M-RK II Scan Display
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Messages
During radio operation, various messages are dis-
played on either line one or line two. Typical messages
include control channel status information, such as sys-
tembusyorcalldenied,ormessagesassociatedwiththe
radio’s operation, (i.e. volume or contrast adjust). These
messages are described below.
Message Name Description
QUEUED
Call Queued - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
the system has
placed the call in
arequestqueue.
SYS BUSY
System Busy - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
the system is
busy, no chan-
nels are currently
available, the
queue is full or an
individual call is
being attempted
to a radio that is
currently trans-
mitting.
DENIED
Call Denied - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
the radio is not
authorized to op-
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erate on the se-
lectedsystem
CC SCAN
Control Channel Scan - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
the control chan-
nel is lost and the
radio has entered
the Control
Channel Scan
mode to search
for the control
channel.
WA SCAN
Wide Area Scan - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
the control chan-
nel is lost and ra-
dio has entered
the Wide Area
Scan mode to
search for a new
system (if en-
abled through
programming).
TALKARND
Talk-around - Conventional
mode only. Indi-
cates the radio is
operating oncon-
ventional chan-
nels in talk-
around mode (no
repeater).
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*RXEMER*
Receive Emergency - Trunked mode
only. Indicates an
emergency call is
being received.
Thismessagewill
be flashing on
linetwo.
*TXEMER*
Transmit Emergency - Trunked mode
only. Indicates an
emergency call
has been trans-
mitted. This mes-
sagewillbeflash-
ingonlinetwo.
VOL = 31
Volume Level - Indicates the cur-
rentvolumelevel.
The volume level
display ranges
from OFF (silent)
to31(loudest).
LOW BATT
Battery Low - Indicates the bat-
tery level is too
low for transmis-
sion. This mes-
sage displays
when pressing
PTT and trans-
mitting is dis-
abled due to the
lowbatterycondi-
tion.
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UNKNOWN
Unknown ID - Trunked mode
only. Indicates an
individual call is
beingreceivedby
an unknown ra-
dio ID. This by-
passes when the
callisupdated.
TX DATA
Transmit Data - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
when a data call
is being transmit-
ted. Displayed on
lineone.
RX DATA
Receive Data - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
when a data call
is being received.
Displayed on line
one.
DATA OFF
Data Off - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
when radio is in
data disable
state. Displayed
onlineone.
DATA ON
Data On - Trunked mode
only. Indicates
whenradioistog-
gled to data en-
able state. Dis-
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played on line
one for two sec-
onds.
KEY ZERO
Key Zero - Indicates that
cryptographic
keys have been
erasedfromradio
memory.
PVT DIS
Private Disabled - Indicates that the
group or channel
is not pro-
grammed for pri-
vatemodeopera-
tion.
FRCD PVT
Forced Private - Indicates that
group or channel
is pre-pro-
grammed for pri-
vatemodeopera-
tion and clear
mode is not pos-
sible.
NO KEY #
No Key Number - Indicates that the
correct crypto-
graphic key is not
loaded for the se-
lected group or
channel.
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