I am trying to program a trunked personality that will allow users to monitor traffic only. I have done this successfully on the XTS 1500 portable, but when I followed roughly the same logic and set the personality transmit setting to TV/AG receive only I was still able to transmit on the talk group even though it was set for the personality with the restriction. Am I missing a setting? I could not find anything else about transmit inhibit in the help files.
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XTL1500 Transmit Inhibit
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clbsquared
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I believe you can only inhibit a conventional personality from transmitting. I don't think you can inhibit a trunking personality. That's why the NAF scan method is the best way to do this. It scans all the channels that are slaved to a conventional personality, thus never allowing the radio to transmit on a trunked talk group. If it's programmed correctly. However, without seeing your codeplug, it would be difficult to pinpoint the problem. It could be a number of things.
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Trunking talkgroups can be set to TG/AG disabled which allows a radio to monitor the talkgroup but not transmit. The radio will still affiliate though.
This was introduced in a later version of firmware so make sure your firmware is new enough to support it.
This was introduced in a later version of firmware so make sure your firmware is new enough to support it.
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i always change the off set from 45.00 to O ZERO make the RX and TX the same
Gents, the OP mentions users which leads me to believe these are authorized radios on the system.
Using the NAF scan method or setting the transmit offset to zero is not applicable.
Using the NAF scan method or setting the transmit offset to zero is not applicable.
Thanks, MikeOxlong. We have had these radios since around 2012. I'll have to check their firmware version. The portables from the same time frame worked fine. Do you know what version the functionality became enabled? I feel like if there was ever a feature vs firmware conflict in the past the software would say that it was not applicable to that radio, but I may be wrong or thinking of Kenwood products.
And to clarify, yes, these are authorized users on the MOSWIN system. It's for a county sheriff's office that is authorized to transmit on most TG's, but was granted monitor-only access to Highway Patrol TG's. I can program everything myself which saves the trouble and cost of coordinating fleet updates through our Moto vendor, and I got it to work perfectly on our portables, but it's not taking on the mobiles. I tested it on an MSHP TG just to double check my work and when it keyed up I took it back out. MO DPS is nice about letting trusted local agency IT/radio staff have system keys, but they'll get salty about it quick if we key up on the HP Dispatch TG's.
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Sorry I don't know which release implemented the tg/ag disabled option.
The other thing to check is the list of items under the Warnings section for that option.
The other thing to check is the list of items under the Warnings section for that option.
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I have seen this occur on xtl-1500s and xtl-2500s. Not sure if its a firmware issue or not but when a trunking personality is set to TG/AG Disabled it still allows transmit on that personality. Im unaware the firmware ver in the radios I have seen this in but I know they were touched with the latest version of Astro25 CPS.
It is 100% a firmware version issue. Motorola started making this option available in the XTS/XTL radios with firmware R19.50 and CPS version 19.01. Just need to bump the XTS/XTL radio firmware up to at least 19.50 if you wish for the Transmit Mode feature to work.
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