Motorola ASTRO APX Owner's manual

ASTRO®
APXTM Digital Portable Radios
User Guide Supplement
for Front Panel Programming
680XXXXXX-A

Preface
Before operating your radio, please
review the "Product Safety and RF
Exposure Compliance" section in the
front of your Radio User Guide.
Be sure to retain this publication for
future reference.

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Frequency Programming Restrictions
• the radio may only be programmed
for those frequencies that the radio
user is permitted to use.
• Programming of frequencies should
be done only by authorized service
personnel.
• Radio operation on unauthorized
frequencies is a violation of the
federal law.
Warning, Caution, and Note Notations
Throughout this publication, you will
notice the use of WARNING, CAUTION,
and Note notations. These notations are
used to emphasize that safety hazards
exist, and care must be taken or
observed.

Note: An operational procedure,
practice,orcondition,etc.,which
is important to emphasize.
An operational
procedure, practice, or
condition, etc., which
may result in injury or
death if not carefully
observed.
An operational
procedure, practice, or
condition, etc., which
may result in damage
to the equipment if not
carefully observed.

Contents
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©2012 Motorola Solutions, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Preface................................................. ii
Computer Software Copyrights........... iii
Frequency Programming Restrictions. v
Warning, Caution, and Note Notations
v
Getting Started.............................. 1
Introduction.......................................... 1
Programming Feature Operation 3
Front Panel Programming ................... 4
Initiate the FPP Feature...................6
Glossary........................................ 8

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Notes

APX - FPP SUPPLEMENT 1
Getting Started
Introduction
Your radio provides the ability to edit and
program several operational features
using the front panel keypad. Front
Panel Programming (FPP) covered in
this manual, can only be programmed/
reprogrammed when the radio is
ordered with the FPP option.
A special Advanced System Key (ASK)
is also needed. It needs to be used with
the CPS.

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Before attempting Front Panel
Programming as described in this
manual:
• Familiarize yourself with the your
radio.
• Remove the universal connector
seal if it is attached to the radio.
• Install the ASK to the computer.
• Install the Customer Programming
Software (CPS) on the computer.

APX - FPP SUPPLEMENT 3
Programming Feature Operation
The radio can be programmed in three
ways:
• Front Panel Programming (FPP)
using the front panel controls of the
radio.
• Cloning the radio zone and channel
information for one or more zones;
that is, copying zone and channel
information from one radio to
another radio.
• Customer Programming Software
(CPS), with the radio connected to a
PC computer.
This supplement describes the Front
Panel Programming (FPP) .
Note: The FPP features are not
available when the radio is
mounted in a Vehicular Adaptor.

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Front Panel Programming
Front Panel Programming (FPP) allows
the authorized service personnel to
change the following parameters from
the front panel controls of the radio:
• Tx/Rx Frequency
• Tx/Rx Coded Squelch (PL/DPLNAC)
• Receive Channel Analog / Digital /
Mixed designation
• Transmit Channel Analog / Digital
designation
• Bandwidth
• Channel Name
• Zone Name
• Zone Protection

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There are two methods to program a
channel within a zone. Either:
• Select the zone and channel
through the radio interface, and then
initiate the FPP feature.
OR
• Initiate the FPP feature, and then
select the zone and channel (see
the procedure starting on the next
page).
Note: When any of the Rx parameters
(i.e., Rx frequency, Rx PL, Rx
DPL, and Rx NAC) is changed,
FPP automatically copies these
Rx parameter values to the
equivalent Directoperation(also
known as Talkaround operation)
parameters.

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Initiate the FPP Feature
• Connect the radio to the computer.
• Load the CPS software with the ASK
installed.
• Via the CPS software enable the
FPP feature. A password will then
be needed to be keyed in.
• On the radio, browse to the FPP
menu to access the FPP setup.
• Key in the password provided to
gain access to the FPP feature.

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Glossary
This is a list of terms used in this User
Guide supplement.
Analog
Signal An RF signal that has a continuous nature rather
than a pulsed or discrete
nature
Channel A group of characteristics
such as transmit/receive
frequency pairs, radio
parameters, and encryp-
tion encoding.
Cursor A visual trackingmarker (a
blinking line) that indicates
a location on the display.
Digital
Private
Line (DPL)
A type of coded squelch
using data bursts. Similar
to PL except a digital code
is used instead of a tone.

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Digital
Signal An RF signal that has a pulsed or discrete, nature,
rather than a continuous
nature.
Front Panel
Program-
ming (FPP)
The provisioner is capa-
ble of changing
channel/zone names,
channel frequency, code,
digital/analog operating
modes, and bandwidth.
Network
Access
Code (NAC)
NAC operated on digital
channels to reduce voice
channel interference
betweenadjacentsystems
and sites.
Operator The person using theradio
to transmit and receive
audio. This is the primary
user in day to day radio
operation.

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Prepro-
grammed A software feature that has been activated by a
qualified radio technician.
Private
Line (PL) A sub-audible tone that is transmitted such that only
receivers decoding the
tone will receive it.
Program-
mable A radio control that can have a radio feature
assigned to it.
Provisioner The person that provisions
channel
parameters such as
frequency and squelch
code from the keyboard of
the radio. This is also the
person that initiates clon-
ing.
Source
Radio The radio that contains the data to be cloned. This is
the radio that initiates
cloning.

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Talkaround Bypass a repeaterand talk
directly to another unit for
easy local unit-to-unit
basis.
Target
Radio The radio that is the target of a cloning operation.
Zone A grouping of channels.

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product or service names are the
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