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!
This manual covers Ericsson and General Electric products
manufactured and sold by Ericsson Inc.
NOTE!
Repairs to this equipment should be made only by an author-
ized 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.
The software contained in this device is copyrighted by
Ericsson Inc. Unpublished rights are reserved under the
copyright laws of the United States.
NOTE
This manual is published by Ericsson Inc., without any
warranty. Improvements and changes to this manual necessi-
tated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of current informa-
tion, or improvements to programs and/or equipment, may be
made by Ericsson Inc., at any time and without notice. Such
changes will be incorporated into new editions of this manual.
No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in
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express written permission of Ericsson Inc.
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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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