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Motorola APX 6500 Manual

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  • Page 1 TWO-WAY RADIOS APX 6500 O5 CONTROL HEAD INTERACTIVE END USER TOOLKIT (IEUTK)

  • Page 2: Radio Parts And Controls

    APX 6500 O5 CH RADIO PARTS AND CONTROLS  O5 Control Head Mode Emergency Volume Dimmer Home Knob (Orange) Button* LED Indicators Knob Button Button* ZONE A CHAN 1 ZONE CHAN CALL RPGM 4 Way Navigation Button* Accessory Port Power Button...

  • Page 3: Turning On/Off The Radio

    APX 6500 O5 CH PREPARING YOUR RADIO FOR USE  Turning on/off the Radio Press the Power Button briefly to power on the radio. If CH MISMATCH appears, means that either the Control Head has been connected to an incompatible transceiver, After a short time, the red, yellow and green LEDs light up.

  • Page 4: Adjusting The Volume

    APX 6500 O5 CH PREPARING YOUR RADIO FOR USE  Adjusting the Volume To increase the volume, rotate the Volume Knob clockwise. To decrease the volume, rotate the Volume Knob counterclockwise. Volume Knob ZONE A CHAN 1 ZONE CHAN CALL...

  • Page 5: Identifying Radio Controls

    APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING RADIO CONTROLS – – Emergency Depending on the programming, initiates or Multiple Private Line (Conventional Only) Selects the cancels an emergency alarm or call. Multiple Private Line lists. – – Ext PA On/Off Toggles the audio routing between the...
  • Page 6 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING RADIO CONTROLS – – Repeater Access Button (RAB) (Conventional Only) Status (Astro 25 Trunking Only) Sends data calls to the Allows to manually send a repeater access codeword. dispatcher about a predefined status. – –...
  • Page 7 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING RADIO CONTROLS Assignable Settings or Utility Functions – Dimmer Changes the display brightness. – Front/Rear Switches one of two control heads to be active at one time. – TX Power Level Toggles transmit power level between high and low.

  • Page 8: Accessing The Preprogrammed Functions

    APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING RADIO CONTROLS  Accessing the Preprogrammed Functions You can access various radio functions through one of the following ways: • A short or long press of the relevant programmable buttons. • Use the Menu Select Buttons ( Using the Menu Select Buttons The Menu Select Buttons allow to access the menu entries of features.
  • Page 9 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING RADIO CONTROLS Using the Advance Programmable Buttons This feature is to help you to shorten the process of applying certain common features. – (Quick Access) One Touch Button Enters a menu with a short press on the preprogrammed One Touch button.
  • Page 10 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING RADIO CONTROLS Using the Navigation Buttons Home Button button returns you to the Home (default) screen. In most cases, this is the current mode. For selected radio features, the button is also used to save user-edited radio settings or information before returning you to the Home screen.

  • Page 11: Status Icons

    APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS  Status Icons Monitor (Carrier Squelch) The liquid crystal display (LCD) of your radio shows the radio Selected channel is being monitored (during conventional status, text entries, and menu entries. operation only). The following are the icons that appear on the radio’s display.
  • Page 12 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS Vote Scan Enabled Hexadecimal The vote scan feature is enabled. Indicates that the text entry is currently in hexadecimal mode. Secure Operation • On = Secure operation. • Off = Clear operation. •...

  • Page 13: Text Messaging Service (Tms) Icons

    APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS  Text Messaging Service (TMS) Icons Status Icons The following icons appear on the radio’s display for TMS Message Index Indicates the index of the current message the user is features: viewing. Example: If the user is looking at the third message out of...
  • Page 14 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS Mixed Case Indicates that the text entry is currently in normal text mode. Uppercase Indicates that the text entry is currently in uppercase mode. Lowercase Indicates that the text entry is currently in lowercase mode.

  • Page 15: Led Indicator

    APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS  LED Indicator LEDs Yellow Green ZONE A CHAN 1 ZONE CHAN CALL RPGM The LED indicator shows the operational status of your radio. CONTENTS < PREV NEXT >...
  • Page 16 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS – Solid red Radio is transmitting. – Rapidly blinking red Radio has failed the self test upon powering up or encountered a fatal error. – Solid yellow (Conventional Only) Channel is busy. –...

  • Page 17: Intelligent Lighting Indicators

    APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS  Intelligent Lighting Indicators This feature temporary changes the radio’s display backlight color and the alert text background color to help signal that a radio event has occurred. Note: This feature must be preprogrammed by a qualified radio technician.
  • Page 18 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS Orange Emergency Alerts Critical Alerts Green Call Alerts CONTENTS < PREV NEXT >...

  • Page 19: Alert Tones

    APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS  Alert Tones An alert tone is a sound or group of sounds. Your radio uses alert tones to inform you of your radio’s conditions. The following table lists these tones and when they occur.
  • Page 20 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS You Hear Tone Name Heard Short, Valid Key-Press When correct key is pressed. Medium-Pitched Radio Self Test Pass When radio passes its power-up self test. Tone Clear Voice At beginning of a non-coded communication.
  • Page 21 APX 6500 O5 CH IDENTIFYING STATUS INDICATORS You Hear Tone Name Heard Ringing Fast Ringing When system is searching for target of Private Call. Enhanced Call Sent When waiting for target of Private Call to answer the call. Play Phone Call Received When a land-to-mobile phone call is received.

  • Page 22: Selecting A Zone

    APX 6500 O5 CH GENERAL RADIO OPERATION  Selecting a Zone A zone is a group of channels. Procedure: to ZONE. Press the Menu Select button directly below ZONE. to the required zone. Press or the PTT button to confirm the selected zone.

  • Page 23: Selecting A Radio Channel

    APX 6500 O5 CH GENERAL RADIO OPERATION  Selecting a Radio Channel A channel is a group of radio characteristics, such as transmit/receive frequency pairs. Procedure: [Mode knob] Rotate the Mode knob until the display shows the desired channel. Press the PTT button to transmit on the displayed channel.

  • Page 24: Making A Radio Call

    APX 6500 O5 CH GENERAL RADIO OPERATION  Making a Radio Call You can select a zone, channel, subscriber ID, or talkgroup by using: • The preprogrammed Zone menu • The Mode Knob • A preprogrammed One Touch Call button •...
  • Page 25 APX 6500 O5 CH GENERAL RADIO OPERATION  Making a Radio Call Making a Talkgroup Call To make a call to a group of users, your radio must be Press the PTT button to make the call. configured as part of that talkgroup.

  • Page 26: Multiple Control Head Features

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Multiple Control Head Features This feature allows a transceiver to control a combination of up to four O5 control heads on APX Mobile (depending on the model). You can use the CAN cables to connect in any configuration that does not exceed 131 feet (40 meters) in combined length.

  • Page 27: All Active Mode

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Multiple Control Head Features All Active Mode The All Active mode enables all connected control heads Procedure: attached to the radio to operate concurrently with each other. Press the Menu Select button directly below INTC to When you activate a feature on one control head, the rest of activate the intercom feature of any of the control heads.

  • Page 28: Scan Lists

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Lists Scan lists are created and assigned to individual channels/groups. Your radio scans for voice activity by cycling through the channel/group sequence specified in the scan list for the current channel/group. Your radio supports different types of Scan Lists: •...

  • Page 29: Viewing A Scan List

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Lists Viewing a Scan List Procedure: to SCNL. Press the Menu Select button directly below SCNL. to view the members on the list. Press to exit the current display and return to the Home screen.

  • Page 30: Editing The Scan List

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Lists Editing the Scan List This feature lets you change scan list members and priorities. to select more channels to be added or deleted. Procedure: Use the Mode Knob to select additional channels to be added or deleted.

  • Page 31: Viewing And Changing The Priority Status

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Lists Viewing and Changing the Priority Status Procedure A Scan icon indicates that the current channel is in the scan list as a non-priority channel. Below the SEL, DEL, and RCL screen, press the Menu The LED lights up solid green.
  • Page 32 APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Turning Scan On or Off This feature allows you to monitor traffic on different channels by scanning a preprogrammed list of channels. Procedure: [Preprogrammed Button] Press the preprogrammed Scan button. SCAN ON...

  • Page 33: Transmitting While The Scan Is On

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Transmitting While the Scan is On Radio Programmed for Talkback Scan Radio Programmed for Non-Talkback Scan Procedure: Procedure: Press the PTT button to transmit on the channel indicated Press the PTT button at any time to transmit on the by the display.

  • Page 34: Deleting A Nuisance Channel

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Deleting a Nuisance Channel If a channel continually generates unwanted calls or noise Procedure: (termed a “nuisance” channel), you can temporarily remove the unwanted channel from the scan list. When the radio is locked onto the channel to be deleted, to NUIS.

  • Page 35: Restoring A Nuisance Channel

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Restoring a Nuisance Channel Procedure: To restore the deleted nuisance channel, do one of the following: • Turn scan off, then on. • Change channel. • Turn off the radio, and then turn it back on.

  • Page 36: Hang Up Box (Hub)

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Scan Hang Up Box (HUB) To temporarily suspend Scan Mode operation, remove the control head from the Hang Up Box (HUB). You are allowed to use the control head while scan is suspended.

  • Page 37: Emergency Operation

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Emergency Operation The Emergency feature is used to indicate a critical situation. If the Orange button is preprogrammed to send an emergency signal, this signal overrides any other communication over the selected channel.

  • Page 38: Sending An Emergency Alarm

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Emergency Operation Sending an Emergency Alarm This feature allows you to send a data transmission, which identifies the radio sending the emergency, to the dispatcher. Procedure: Press the preprogrammed Emergency button. A tone sounds and the display alternates EMERGENCY and the home display.

  • Page 39: Sending An Emergency Call (Trunking Only)

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Emergency Operation Sending an Emergency Call (Trunking Only) Procedure: Press the preprogrammed Emergency button. A tone sounds and the display alternates EMERGENCY and the home display. A short low-pitched tone sounds when the selected channel does not support emergency.

  • Page 40: Sending An Emergency Alarm With Emergency Call

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Emergency Operation Sending an Emergency Alarm with Emergency Call This feature gives your radio priority access on a channel for Press and hold the PTT button. conventional system, and to a talkgroup for trunking system.

  • Page 41: Special Considerations For Emergencies

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Emergency Operation Special Considerations for Emergencies • If you press the emergency button while in a channel that has no emergency capability, a low-pitched tone sounds. • If the unit is out of the range of the system and/or the emergency alarm is not acknowledged, a tone sounds and the display shows NO ACKNOWLEDGE.

  • Page 42: Trunking System Controls

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Trunking System Controls Using the Fail-soft System The fail-soft system ensures continuous radio Procedure: communications during a trunked system failure. Rotate the Mode Knob to change to a different repeater If a trunking system fails completely, the radio goes into fail- frequency.
  • Page 43 APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Trunking System Controls Going Out of Range Out of range when your radio goes out of the range of the system, it can no longer lock onto a control channel. Procedure: You hear a low-pitched tone.

  • Page 44: Trunked Announcement

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Trunking System Controls Trunked Announcement • The announcement capability allows you to make Non-Ruthless Preemption: announcements to the entire user group, as well as monitor When a non-ruthless preemption announcement is talkgroup calls and other announcements.

  • Page 45: Ignition Switch Options

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Ignition Switch Options This feature allows the user to select the radio’s functionality PTT Tx Inhibit based on the Ignition State of the radio user’s vehicle. The available options are as follows. This option allows the user to power on and power off the radio through the Power button regardless of the Ignition’s...
  • Page 46 APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES Soft Power Off Note: While "Ignition" is not present, the radio powers-off with a radio-user Power Off button / knob selection if the radio was This option allows the user to power on the radio either...

  • Page 47: Voice Announcement

    APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES  Voice Announcement This feature enables the radio to audibly indicate the current Note: Voice announcements support certain number of zone- feature mode, Zone or Channel the user has just assigned. channel, but not all.
  • Page 48 APX 6500 O5 CH ADVANCED FEATURES • Procedure: Press either the Menu Select button or preprogrammed button of the radio to launch or terminate Scan, PL You hear a voice announcement when the features below are Disabled, Talkaround/Direct or Transmit Inhibit.

  • Page 49: Selecting A Radio Profile

    APX 6500 O5 CH UTILITIES  Selecting a Radio Profile This feature allows you to manually switch the visual and audio settings of the radio. The display, backlight, alert tones, Press the Menu Select button directly below EXIT to exit and audio settings are defined according to the the screen without making any changes.

  • Page 50: Controlling The Display Backlight

    APX 6500 O5 CH UTILITIES  Controlling the Display Backlight You can enable or disable the radio’s display backlight as Procedure: needed, if poor light conditions make the display difficult to read. Press the Dimmer button to adjust the brightness of the display.

  • Page 51: Using The Time-Out Timer

    APX 6500 O5 CH UTILITIES  Using the Time-Out Timer This feature turns off your radio’s transmitter. You cannot Procedure: transmit longer than the preset timer setting. Hold down the PTT button longer than the preprogrammed If you attempt to do so, the radio automatically stops your time.

  • Page 52: Using The Digital Ptt Id Feature

    APX 6500 O5 CH UTILITIES  Using the Digital PTT ID Feature This feature allows you to see the radio ID (number) of the radio from whom you are currently receiving a transmission. This ID, consisting up to a maximum of eight characters, can be viewed by both the receiving radio and the dispatcher.

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