I've recently acquired a Motorola M1225 Mobile (4 channel), have installed it myself in my car and it powers up, even had it reprogrammed by a dealer with the frequencies I wanted. When I press the scan button it beeps but nothing happens on the display and it doesn't seem to scan. I've had the mic hooked up and in the clip, didn't help, also even thought maybe the clip was a bad ground but I even touched the clip to the same bolt I have the radio grounded to and it doesn't help. Any suggestions? Unfortunately I don't have the user or install guides for the radio.
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Motorola M1225 Scan
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llu727
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Does the monitor light go off when you hang up the mic?
If not there is a possiblity that the mic is bad.
The white mics are throw away
the black mics can be opened and repaired.
If you are not using it for transmitting, you can just put a shorting plug into the mic jack - but the pin numbers escape me at the moment
BJ
If not there is a possiblity that the mic is bad.
The white mics are throw away
the black mics can be opened and repaired.
If you are not using it for transmitting, you can just put a shorting plug into the mic jack - but the pin numbers escape me at the moment
BJ
Could be that in the programming, it might not be set up to scan.. I had same trouble til I went back thru the program setup.
There's a yellow, squigly looking arrow that's always lit, when on and off the hook, I can transmit, and the light on the mic works (green when recieving, orange/red when transmitting), going to borrow a mic from another radio tommorow to see if that helps.
bezking
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Press the "MON" button, and see if that goes off, if it does, try scanning again.naredfox said:
Ok, things get weirder, I tried the scan button this morning when it was on channel 1 and it went to channel 2, then when it was on channel 2 or 3 nothing happened, when it was on channel 4 and I hit scan it went to channel 3? Maybe it's my scan list, if so how do you modify it on the 4 channel version of this radio, holding down the scan button just gives me the error beep (lower tone as opposed to higher pitched).
Try this....
Have you ADDED the four channels to the SCAN list?
Do you know how to do that?
On the 1225 you "should" have three buttons on the front showing A B & C. Plus a button with a little "Z" or lightning bolt on it.....
If you press and HOLD the "Z" button, this "should" put you in the programming mode. You use your channel up button to step to the next channel. If you want that channel IN the scan list, press the "A" to add it. The Z will appear on the display to let you know you've added it. If you press "A" a couple of times and watch the display changes, you'll understand what I'm describing....
You follow the same process to REMOVE a freq from the scan list.
To get OUT of the scen program mode, prress "Z" again.....
Again, even IF you have it set up (in the programming to scan) it WON'T until you add the channels.
Also, once you get the channels ADDED, to get it to go to scan, you press the lightning bolt button (the "Z") - don't HOLD it down this time or you'll go back into the program mode and the display will show SCAN for a couple of seconds and then go back to whatever channel you had it on.
You will know it is SCANNING by looking for the little "Z" in the display. The word SCAN does NOT remain on the display.
If you press the scan button again, the "Z" will go away meaning you are NOT in the scan mode now...
This all depends on hoe your programmer set the radio up. On SOME radios you have to follow the process above but use the "A" button to go to the scan program mode. On some programming setups, if you press and hold the "Z" button, it is set up as a nuisance lock-out button....
I hope this helps. Let me know if it does....
Steve/KB8FAR :lol:
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Have you ADDED the four channels to the SCAN list?
Do you know how to do that?
On the 1225 you "should" have three buttons on the front showing A B & C. Plus a button with a little "Z" or lightning bolt on it.....
If you press and HOLD the "Z" button, this "should" put you in the programming mode. You use your channel up button to step to the next channel. If you want that channel IN the scan list, press the "A" to add it. The Z will appear on the display to let you know you've added it. If you press "A" a couple of times and watch the display changes, you'll understand what I'm describing....
You follow the same process to REMOVE a freq from the scan list.
To get OUT of the scen program mode, prress "Z" again.....
Again, even IF you have it set up (in the programming to scan) it WON'T until you add the channels.
Also, once you get the channels ADDED, to get it to go to scan, you press the lightning bolt button (the "Z") - don't HOLD it down this time or you'll go back into the program mode and the display will show SCAN for a couple of seconds and then go back to whatever channel you had it on.
You will know it is SCANNING by looking for the little "Z" in the display. The word SCAN does NOT remain on the display.
If you press the scan button again, the "Z" will go away meaning you are NOT in the scan mode now...
This all depends on hoe your programmer set the radio up. On SOME radios you have to follow the process above but use the "A" button to go to the scan program mode. On some programming setups, if you press and hold the "Z" button, it is set up as a nuisance lock-out button....
I hope this helps. Let me know if it does....
Steve/KB8FAR :lol:
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Problem solved. Ended up being the microphone, the MON light would never go off with the old one. Borrowed a new one and right away when I put it in the clip it went off, and then would scan, went back do the previous mic and the mon light wouldn't go off. Seems that it could transmit and work okay just not detecting the hook for some reason?
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