Most of us who have owned legacy iDEN DC phones have relished the "speed dial" feature for Direct Connect calls. Basically, it works by pressing only the last number of a fleet ID and the ptt button to quickly initiate conversations with others on your fleet.

Most of us probably thought the feature was lost on the new QChat phones since they use an email address instead of a fleet number. Good news! Now, not only can you choose to still do this as before, it doesn't matter whether the person is even on your fleet or not.

This is because DC numbers can be stored in speed dial slots instead of regular telephone numbers. Another trick that can be added to this feature is to use the speed dial slot for both DC and mobile numbers by progr...
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