I was experimenting with my three XTS2500 radios a bit ago, trying to get MDC select calling to work (I swear I had it working before) but I seem to be missing something. All three radios are programmed the same except for their MDC IDs. The MDC call lists have the appropriate aliases in them for each ID. Each radio transmits and decodes the ID with no trouble and MDC paging works as it should. The problem I'm running into is that when I do a call to a specific radio ID, all of the radios unmute. I've tried every combination I can think of of Personality Unmute/Mute Type, MDC Unmute type, Pre vs Post MDC etc. I feel like there's got to be something I'm missing but I'm running out of ideas. Or am I misunderstanding how the MDC Calling is supposed to work?
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XTL/XTS5000 MDC Select Calling Help
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