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G5 Out of Range

JHW2

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Been enjoying my G5 for several months. Suddenly, all I get is "OUT OF RANGE". To my knowledge, nothing has changed, all the control channels are same. I'm monitoring the North Carolina Viper system, in Western NC.

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Are you able to confirm the site is still up and running? If you're able to receive it with a scanner or SDR, and not with the G5, it could be due to the site failing to broadcast the band plan info, or there is an actual issue with the pager itself. Will it lock onto the site for a short time before going out of range?
 
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May want to check, since there was a post on here a few months ago with the VIPER sites changing.

It will be in the North Carolina Forum.

If the site information did change it could cause the G5 not to lock onto a site.

Going forward you could program the site using wildcards to see if that will work.
 
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hazrat8990 said:
Are you able to confirm the site is still up and running? If you're able to receive it with a scanner or SDR, and not with the G5, it could be due to the site failing to broadcast the band plan info, or there is an actual issue with the pager itself. Will it lock onto the site for a short time before going out of range?
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Yes. All my other radios are doing great.
 
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hill said:
May want to check, since there was a post on here a few months ago with the VIPER sites changing.

It will be in the North Carolina Forum.

If the site information did change it could cause the G5 not to lock onto a site.

Going forward you could program the site using wildcards to see if that will work.
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My other radios are doing great. May try the wildcard though. Thanks.
 
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JHW2 said:
Yes. All my other radios are doing great.
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A few years back, the site I was most interested in suddenly stopped broadcasting its band plan, It was quite frustrating since I frequently drove within 100' of it and the pager would lock onto every site except for that one. Whenever I was down lower in the valley and it was the only one available, the G5 would lock on for a few seconds before going out of range. My scanners never had any trouble during this time. Eventually, the radio techs got around to addressing the issue and I've have no more troubles with it. Perhaps it has something to do with the upgrades in NC as others have mentioned. If that is the case, you'll just have to wait.
 
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