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F4011 - Busy lockout issue

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tampabaynews

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I have a few of F4011's I have programmed for business use.

In the software I'm attempting to set the busy lockout on all the channels to prevent users from stepping on one another.

The issue is... the receive light is always lit so it will not allow the radio to transmit when busy lockout is enabled. I'm assuming it is always lit because there's no other indicator that the radio is powered on.

Any ideas to make this work?

Thanks in advance.
 

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If the receive light is on it means the radio is hearing something. It could be co-channel users or maybe the squelch is not set properly. Are you using carrier squelch?
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Figured it out, the "squelch tight" setting was not enabled for that zone so it was picking up noise.

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That'll do it. Just make sure that squelch tight it not TOO tight. And, there are some places that are simply too noisy to use the 'busy' feature. That is not an Icom issue and affects everyone.
 

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That'll do it. Just make sure that squelch tight it not TOO tight. And, there are some places that are simply too noisy to use the 'busy' feature. That is not an Icom issue and affects everyone.

Roger that. Thanks!
 
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