Just programmed dept issued portables for emergency call, and now when I power the radio on it requests a status 1-16. How do I disable that. The help tutorial was no help.
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XPR7550
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Update. Happens only when I tell a personality to tx a pttid.
Anyone? How do I get around this issue? It seems odd that something as common as txing a pttid would create such a change in operation.
Yeah. I dont understand it either. If I set the cpg for no TXID, the radio turns on normally. No issues or requests. Once i set the TXID in the channel and send it to the radio, it powers on and asks for a status. It gives 16 options. I have not set any MDC messaging or anything, just to send the unit's MDC1200.
Check for any setup indicating the radio is set up to send some sort of a unit status message. Sounds like it's powering up and asking what status you want to send to your dispatcher. I know you said you disabled MDC messaging, but it sounds like the only likely cause is the radio preparing to send some sort of status update.
Disable all status related items and try again, see if it does it still.
Disable all status related items and try again, see if it does it still.
Did. There is nothing in the CPS indicating a status request. Never seen that before, and I've used trbo software in the past.
ffemtjg
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Under General Settings-Power Up, see if you have the MDC Status box checked.
Thank you, FFEMT, I will look at it again tonight during drill. The odd thing is this. When I disable PTTID it goes away. I change nothing else at all. Not power settings, etc. Turn it back on it starts again. I hope my chief didnt buy crap again.
Will update tonight.
Will update tonight.
I will post up tonight. Thanks.
ffemtjg
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My assumption is that if that box is checked it looks at what ever channel it powers up on to see if MDC is enabled. My guess is that if the radio is programmed to power up on the 'last selected channel' and that channel didn't have MDC enabled, that it would skip over the MDC Status menu. The description that Motorola gives in the help section is very poor to say the least.
Update: I did some checking with a 7550 that I have. I was correct in my assumption. The software is checking the channel parameters and if it finds that MDC is enabled on the transmit side, it will request you input a status from that menu. It will not bring up the menu if you only have MDC enabled on the receive side or if you don't have MDC enabled on the channel. My guess would be that someone accidently checked that MDC Status box when setting up your codeplug, I don't think it's checked by default from factory.
Update: I did some checking with a 7550 that I have. I was correct in my assumption. The software is checking the channel parameters and if it finds that MDC is enabled on the transmit side, it will request you input a status from that menu. It will not bring up the menu if you only have MDC enabled on the receive side or if you don't have MDC enabled on the channel. My guess would be that someone accidently checked that MDC Status box when setting up your codeplug, I don't think it's checked by default from factory.
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Cant upload the codeplug here. PM me and I will email it to you.
So here is what I found. The shop that did the original program added a lot of repeat channels to fill up the radio. I dont know why. So when I want the radio to power up on the FIRE PRIMARY there are 5 of the same channel to chose from. As long as only one is set to TX MDC, and not the power-up channel, it doesnt ask me for status on power-up. I went and deleted all of the duplicate channels, made FIRE PRIMARY the start up channel and set to TX MDC, i still get the request for status. we dont use zones anymore, since we have the 360 channel knob.
So here is what I found. The shop that did the original program added a lot of repeat channels to fill up the radio. I dont know why. So when I want the radio to power up on the FIRE PRIMARY there are 5 of the same channel to chose from. As long as only one is set to TX MDC, and not the power-up channel, it doesnt ask me for status on power-up. I went and deleted all of the duplicate channels, made FIRE PRIMARY the start up channel and set to TX MDC, i still get the request for status. we dont use zones anymore, since we have the 360 channel knob.
Issue resolved. A setting in expert mode had been enabled. It has been disabled. Thank you all for your help. We can close the thread.
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