Ericsson EDACS PRISM HP User manual

Operator’s Manual
EDACS®PRISM HP
Radio
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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
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.
Thismanualispublished byEricsson Inc., without anywarranty. Improvementsandchanges
to this manual necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies of current information, or
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The software contained in this device is
copyrighted by Ericsson Inc. Unpublished rights
are reserved under the copyright laws of the
United States.
NOTE
Copyright © July 1995, Ericsson Inc.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
USER INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
BUTTONS AND KNOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
KEYPAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Standard Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Scan Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
BUTTON AND KEYPAD REASSIGNMENT . . . 18
DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Radio Status Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Hidden Status Icons . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
UNIVERSAL DEVICE CONNECTOR (UDC) . . 25
ALERT TONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Call Originate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Call Queued (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . 26
Autokey (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . 26
System Busy (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . 26
Call Denied (Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . 27
Carrier Control Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Low Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Low Battery Alert (Transmit Lockout) . . . . 27
Key Press Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
TURNING ON THE RADIO . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SYSTEM/GROUP/CHANNEL SELECTION . . . 29
System Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Group or Channel Selection . . . . . . . . . 32
TRUNKED MODE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . 34
Receiving A Group Call . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sending A Group Call . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Conventional Failsoft . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Emergency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued)
Receiving An EmergencyCall . . . . . 38
Declaring An EmergencyCall . . . . . 38
SCANNING TRUNKED GROUPS . . . . . . . . 39
Turning Scan On and Off . . . . . . . . 39
SCAN Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Adding Groups to a Scan List . . . . . . . . 40
Deleting Groups from a Scan List . . . . . . 41
SYSTEM Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Adding Groups To A Scan List . . . . . . . 42
Deleting Groups From AScan List . . . 44
SCANNING TRUNKED SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . 44
Wide Area System Scanning . . . . . . . . 44
Priority System Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
ProSound
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
INDIVIDUAL CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Receiving And Responding To An Individual Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Sending An Individual Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Pre-Stored Individual Calls . . . . . . . 48
System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Scan Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Direct Dialing of Individual Calls (System
Model only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Call Storage Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
TELEPHONE INTERCONNECT CALLS . . . . 51
Receiving A Telephone Interconnect Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Sending A Telephone Interconnect Call
(Trunked Mode Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Pre-Stored Number . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Direct Dialing of Phone Calls (System Model
only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
DTMF Overdial / Conventional Mode Telephone
Interconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SCAN Radio: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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System Radio: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
PROGRAMMABLE ENTRIES . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Prestoring Individual and Telephone Interconnect
Calls from the Keypad (System Model only) . 57
STATUS/MESSAGE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . 58
STATUS OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
MESSAGE OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
DYNAMIC REGROUP OPERATION . . . . . . . 59
Emergency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
MACRO KEY OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
EDACS CONVENTIONAL P1 SCAN . . . . . . . . 61
MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
PROFEATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Serial Number ROM (12 Hex Digits) . . 68
Feature Encryption Data Stream . . . . 68
Number Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Features Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
AEGIS OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
VOICE MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Mode 1: Clear Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Mode 2: Aegis Digital Mode . . . . . . . . . 71
DTMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Mode 3: Aegis Private Modes . . . . . . . . 72
Transferring Keys Into the Radio . . . . . . . 73
Displaying The Currently Used Cryptographic
Key Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
System Encryption Key . . . . . . . . . 75
Group/Channel Encryption Key . . . . . 75
Key Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Private Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Receiving An EncryptedCall . . . . . . 76
Transmitting An Encrypted Call . . . . . 76
Scanned Group Calls . . . . . . . . . . 77
PORTABLE DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued)
DISPLAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
DATA OFF OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
DATA ON OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
EXITING DATA CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SCAN LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
DATA LOCKOUT MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
CONVENTIONAL MODE OPERATION . . . . . . 82
Receiving A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Sending A Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Adding Channels To A Scan List . . . . . . 84
Deleting Channels From AScan List . . . . 85
Turning Scan On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Turning Scan Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
OPERATING RULES AND REGULATIONS . . . . 87
OPERATING TIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
CHARGING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . 89
RECHARGEABLE BATTERY PACK DISPOSAL 91
INSTALLING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . 91
REMOVING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . 92
INTRINSICALLY SAFE USAGE . . . . . . . . . . 93
BATTERY PACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
NICKEL-CADMIUM BATTERY WARRANTY . . . 100
OPERATOR’S RADIO SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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INTRODUCTION
This manual describes how to use the EDACS
PRISM HP Radio. The PRISM HP is a synthesized,
microprocessor-based, high performance portable FM
radio providing reliabletwo-way communicationsin 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
anddirectlycommunicatesonthatchannel.Inthismode,
a system refers to a set of channels. A channel is a
transmit/receive radio frequency pair.
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USER INTERFACE
The PRISMHP operating controls are located on the
radio’sfront,topandleftpanels.A6-button(scan model)
or 15-button (system model) keypad,Liquid Crystal Dis-
play (LCD), microphone and speaker are on the front
panel. The top panelhousesarotary SYSTEM/GROUP/
CHANNEL knob, POWER ON-OFF/VOLUME control
knob and an 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. A battery release button is located on
the back adjacent to the PPT button.
Thedisplayhasthree,twelvecharacteralphanumeric
lines used to show the operational mode of the radio. A
back light illuminates the display and the keypad for
nighttime use. An LED is located on the front topedge of
the radio. Red indicates transmit.
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Figure 1 - PRSM HP Radio
(Scan Model) 9

Figure 2 - PRSM HP Radio
(System Model)
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