unication U3 User manual

UNICATION
U3 USER GUIDE
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A NEW GENERATION
TWO-WAY RADIO
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GPS Capability
Database Application
Live Site Data Transmissions
The Real Live Multi - Mode
Analog / Digital
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PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PART A : FUNCTION LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
PART B : U3 OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. PHYSICAL USER INTERFACE INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. TURNING THE UNICATION’S RADIO ON AND OFF . . . . . . . . . 6
3. ADJUSTING THE SPEAKER VOLUME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. SELECTING CHANNELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. STANDBY AND MAIN MENU FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
PART C : U3 RADIO INSTALLATION SETTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1. OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.1 STANDARD PACKAGE CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2. HARDWARE INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.1 CHARGING THE BATTERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2 INSTALLING THE ANTENNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.3 INSTALLING THE BATTERY PACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
PART D : FUNCTIONS OPERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1. FUNCTION STATUS MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1. 1ENTER FUNCTION STATUS MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.2 TO SWITCH FUNCTION STATUS ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.3 FUNCTIONS LISTED IN FUNCTION STATUS MENU . . . . . . . . 16
1.4 BLUETOOTH SETTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2. CHANNEL SETTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.1 CHANNEL SETTING FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2 FREQUENCY SETTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.3 SET RF IDENTITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3. VOICE CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1 MAKING CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2 RECEIVING CALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.3 CALL RECORDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.4 CALL OTHER CHANNEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4. EMERGENCY CALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.1 SENDING AN EMERGENCY CALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.2 DISABLE THE EMERGENCY CALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3 RECEIVING AN EMERGENCY CALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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5. CALL ALERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.1 SENDING A CALL ALERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2 RECEIVING A CALL ALERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6. CALL LOG AND EMERGENCY LOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.1 VIEWING A CALL LOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.2 VIEWING AN EMERGENCY LOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7. MESSAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.1 ENTER THE MESSAGE FUNCTION MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.2 CANNED MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.3 READING MESSAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
8. GPS FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
8.1 GPS ENGINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
8.2 GPS INFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
8.3 GPS DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
9. RADIO MONITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
9.1 REMOTE MONITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
10. RADIO CHECK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
10. 1RADIO CHECK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
11. MONITOR MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
11.1 ENTER MONITOR MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
11.2 USE MONITOR MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
12. OVER THE AIR FUNCTION (OTA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
12.1 CHANNEL SETTING BOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
12.2 SEND OVER THE AIR CONTROL MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
13. CONTACTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
13.1 VIEWING CONTACTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
13.2 COMMUNICATE WITH CONTACTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
14. IMAGE BOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
14.1 IMAGE BOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
15. DATABASE FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
15.1 MISSING CAR SEARCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
15.2 MISSING PEOPLE SEARCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
15.3 SUSPECT SEARCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
16. PERSONAL ASSISTANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
16.1 CALL AUTO REPLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
16.2 VOICE MEMO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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17. TOOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
17.1 TOOL MENU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
17.2 MEMORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
17.3 INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
18. SYSTEM ALARM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
18.1 RF HARDWARE ALARM SIGNALS (MCU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
18.2 OTHER ALARMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
PART F : WARRANTY AND SAFETY INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
1. LIMITED WARRANTY AND SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2. FCC PART 15 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY . . . . . . . . . . 46
3. SAFETY INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4. OPERATIONAL WARNINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5. OPERATIONAL CAUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6. OPERATIONAL CAUTIONS FOR INTRINSIC SAFE EQUIPMENT . 53
7. WARNINGS FOR RADIOS APPROVED AS INTRINSICALLY SAFE . 53
8. REPAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Preface
Thank you for purchasing UNICATION’s U3 Radio. We believe that this professional
two-way radio will provide you with a reliable communications solution for daily operations,
emergencies and critical missions. The following is a function overview of the U3 2-way
radio.
Support both Digital and Analog Simultaneously
The usage of narrow band digital two-way radios is a movement that is becoming more and
more significant, but it is undoubtedly true that switching to a completely new digital radio
system requires costly terminals and infrastructure upgrades. The Unication U3 radio series
provides a phased upgrade solution, which ensures that every penny you invest now on
analog portables will be an advancement to your digital system. The U3 can support both
digital and analog signals in the same time, and it can help you reduce the enormous
investment on systems during the transition time.
Advanced AES-256 Encryption even under Analog Systems
The Unication U3 radio series are intelligently designed for critical missions, where
communications confidentiality is key for task security and success. The U3 radio includes
AES Encryption, which is one of the most well developed and certified technologies in voice
communication applications. It is the best choice for preventing eavesdropping when
needing secure voice communications.
Additionally, the Unication Radio series is equipped with Secure digital voice (SDVOA) over
existing analog repeaters or advanced Unication digital repeaters. Through Unication digital
voice technology, Unication U3 radio series also promises a better noise rejection and
preserves voice quality over a greater range than analog systems, especially at the farthest
edges of the transmission range.
Live Site Photo- Instant Transmission of Images Via the two-way Radio System
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially in critical missions. The Unication U3 radio
series has an advanced image messaging feature, with a 2” color display on portables
which supports transmission and reception of color images such as crime scenes, mug
shots, maps and so on.
GPS Location Map- Knowing the Locations of your Team Members
The key to successfully execute missions are time, and location information. How fast can
your radio system react?
With a simple setup and migration-free system deployment, the Unication U3 Radio Series
provides GPS locations on the 2” display map for all your rescue and tracking purposes.
To know further details about the U3 and enhance your user experience, please read this manual.
Thank you!

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Part A: FUNCTION LIST
U3 provides functions below. Some functions require programming processed to
activate.
1 Protocol Setting
Some U3 models support both digital and analog protocols; it
automatically detects the type of signal and switches the
receiving mode.
Support Protocol
Digital: P25 , P25Trunking, DMR, UniDMR
Analog: 2 Tone, 5/6 Tone, CTCSS, CDCSS, MPT1327, CSQ,
DVOA *R&R function can only be used under UniDMR Protocol.
Voice Communication Functions
1 Make Voice Calls
2Frequency
Setting
Set Radio Frequency. VHF model supports 136~174MHz. UHF
model supports 403-470Mhz, while the dual band 700/800
supports 763-870 MHz.
2Receive
Voice Call
Automatically detects the type of signal and switches the
receiving mode.
3 Contact Setting Users can set different contact name to identify radio devices.
3Emergency Call Provides an Emergency Call function. Once activated, the radio
sends an emergency command on a pre-set channel.
4Call Alert
If there was no response to voice call, users can leave a “Call
Alert” notice for the receiver. This reminds the receiver to call
back.
5Call Log and
Emergency Log
Provides logs of previously received calls and Alarms with
contact information. These log lists can be used as a shortcut to
access relative functions.
No. Function Description
U3 supports voice functions below :
a.Press PTT button in standby mode.
b.Make all call, group call or private call in Contact.
c.Press PTT button to reply or make call again in Hang Time.
d.Automatically make calls. U3can be set to automatically transmit
voice calls or be controlled by console remotely.

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Part A: FUNCTION LIST
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No. Function Description
Message Functions
GPS Functions
Text Message: Supports the transmitting of canned messages
and editable text messages.
Scan
The Scan function allows the radio detects the signals in the air.
If the radio received signals, users can listen and talk back
without switching channel.
Remote Monitor The master radio can monitor a remote radio and listen to the
ambient audio in any channel. The Radio Monitor function is set
by using the PPS software.
Zone Users can group channels into a zone. Up to 16 channels per
zone is supported, and channel capacity is 1024.
Contact
Radio contact information is stored under Contacts. This
information is created by using the Product Programming
Software (PPS). Please note the Contacts cannot be edited
from the radio.
Radio Check
This feature allows users to determine if team members are in or
out of signal range. Note that if there is no response, team
member’s radio could be turned off, broken, or out of range.
Image Message Supports transmitting image message with voice, text and GPS
information.
Today After turning on the radio, a Today menu reminds the user any
unread message or event occurring today.
GPS Display
GPS Display: Supports display of Location maps. (Map can be
made and uploaded to U3 by the application software “Map
Maker”.)
GPS Inform: Supports the reporting of GPS location information
and the location display.
GPS Function Supports GPS technology to provide location information.
Monitor Mode Monitor Mode allows users to monitor signals nearby.
Frequency / Channel Functions
Text Message
GPS Inform

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Part A: FUNCTION LIST
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No. Function Description
Data Application
Database
Functions
Users can use the Database Functions to view the records
created and managed by the Database Maker software. There
are total three categories of records:Stolen car, missing people
and suspect.
Image Box U3 can collect image messages and file them into the Image
Box. Users can easily review images by using this function.
Settings Set GPS, Bluetooth, Time and Date and LCD Backlight.
Tools Set Alarm and check memory usage status.
Auto Reply
When this function is activated, the radio reminds the caller to
leave a voice message when receiving private calls or call
alerts.
Voice Memo U3 supports voice memo recording.
Function Status Set and check function status.
Functions Setting

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A4
A5
A6
A7
D2
C1
A8 A10
E1 E2 A11 A12 A13 A9
A14
A Buttons
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6
A7
A8
A9
A10
A11
A12
A13
A14
B LED
B1
B2
C LCD
C1
D Accessory Port
D1
D2
E Microphone
E1
E2
A1
D1
A2A3
B2 B1
Description Top Panel Front Panel
Part: BU3 OVERVIEW
1. PHYSICAL USER INTERFACE INTRODUCTION
U3 overview includes appearance, LED indicator and icons on the screen.
Left Side Right Side
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Ambient Light Sensor for
Automatic Keypad and
LCD Brightness Control
Microphone
Proprietary Dual Band
GPS & VHF or UHF or
700/800 Antenna
Accessory Connector
2”High Brightness Color
Display (220 × 176)
Signaling LED
(Red, Green and Amber)
Power LED (Blue)
Emergency Button
Channel Selector
Knob Volume
Control and Power
Switch Knob
Digital Voice Record
(DVR) Button
PTT Button
Function Status Button
Keypad Lock Button
Left Soft Button
Right Soft Button
Back Button
Enter Button
4-Way Navigation Button
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Home Button
12-Keypad (1 key is the
Menu Button)

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Part: BU3 OVERVIEW
2. TURNING THE UNICATION’s RADIO ON AND OFF
2.1 Switch On
1.
2.
3.
Rotate the Volume Control and Power Switch
Knob clockwise until a click sound is heard.
Once the power is on, a self-test program
automatically starts. If the test is successful, the
display shows a greeting message on the display.
After briefly displaying the greeting message, the
radio automatically enters into the standby mode.
Switch On
Switch Off
2.2 Switch Off
1.
2.
To switch off the radio, simply rotate the Volume
Control and Power Switch Knob counterclockwise
until a click sound is heard.
The LEDs and display are turned off as a result.
3. ADJUSTING THE SPEAKER VOLUME
3.1 Adjust Volume
1.
2.
Slowly rotate the Volume Control and Power Switch
Knob clockwise to increase the volume.
Rotate counterclockwise to lower the volume.
4.1 Using The Channel Selector Knob
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2.
3.
Rotate the Channel Selector Knob clockwise to next
channel.
Rotate the Channel Selector Knob counterclockwise
to previous channel.
When a different channel is selected, the channel
information is shown on the display.
Turning the knob counterclockwise until a click
is heard turns off the radio.
Note
Increase Volume
Decrease Volume
Switch to next Channel
Switch to previous Channel
4. SELECTING CHANNELS
In 2-way radio operation, users must select a channel
for transmitting or receiving voice or data messages.
The UNICATION’s U3 radio can configure 1024
channels. These channels can be programmed to a user
member or a group using UNICATION’s U3
Programming Software, PPS.