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On the Squelch Open & Tight adjustment item, the Up and Down buttons on the right side that adjust the value beeps a error tone when I press them and it won’t allow me to change the value. Does anyone know why this would be happening? Thank you.
All the other adjustment items work on panel tuning with that button except the squelch adjustment. I have the service manual and a service monitor but it’s not needed for what I’m trying to accomplish. I just need to be able to change the value of that adjustment because my radio is opening up squelch on wide band because whoever had this radio before me set the threshold to low.
best to set that with the service monitor, that way it will be within you scope of tolerance (they way you want it)
With a signal injected and at -124, then while in test mode, you click apply and it will set the softpot.
I had to do this to several way point receiver radio for a voting system for a railroad, so the radio would overlap just a scotch
and not be to open ear, or tight.
They then use the panel to set the sql via the menu, utility, squelch. (which is like tight squelch)