Nikon XTS 5000 User Manual

ASTRO XTS 5000 Model I

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This glossary is a list of specialized terms used in this manual.

Acknowledgment of communication.

A channel that has traffic on it.

An RF signal that has a continuous nature 
rather than a pulsed or discrete nature. 

Motorola standard for wireless digital 
trunked communications.

Motorola standard for wireless analog or 
digital conventional communications.

A feature that allows the radio to 
automatically scan the members of a scan 
list.

Privately page an individual by sending an 
audible tone. 

Feature that responds to the presence of an 
RF carrier by opening or unmuting (turning 
on) a receiver’s audio circuit. A squelch 
circuit silences the radio when no signal is 
being received so that the user does not 
have to listen to “noise.” 

A software-controlled, computer-driven 
device that receives and generates data for 
the trunked radios assigned to it. It monitors 
and directs the operations of the trunked 
repeaters.

A group of characteristics such as transmit/
receive frequency pairs, radio parameters, 
and encryption encoding.

In a trunking system, one of the channels 
that is used to provide a continuous, two-
way/data communications path between the 
central controller and all radios on the 
system.

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