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Priority Scanning Two DMR channels on an NX5000

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More of an observation I made vs seeking a solution, but when priority scanning 2 DMR channels on an NX5k it uses lookback time B even when no carrier is present on priority channels and has the horrendous cutout as if a carrier were present and it was seeing if PL/RAN/NAC matched. Causes slight issues relocking onto Priority 2 when it goes to check Priority 1, about a second of dropped traffic at worst. Sometimes the dropout is almost unnoticeable

Occasionally, the dropout is consistently bad and excessively long, unlike normal (although normal dropout with P1 and P2 being DMR is still long) and a radio restart sometimes fixes it, battery pull seems to always fix it.

Running 5.23 firmware, and KPG is V5.20. Issue is not present with relocking onto P2 if P1 is NXDN/Analog/Mixed and P2 is DMR.

No different combo of settings regarding what gets stacked when a group call comes in, priority scan timing, mixed mode, auto slot select, or SD card recording seem to affect the dropout in a noticeable way.

Always possible my radio is out of RX alignment since the internal mic was way too hot and needed tuned but it seems to perform slightly better RXing NXDN then any other NXDN radio I have. I don't have any test equipment or a close dealer that I can have check it.

Somewhat related, the radio occasionally locks up on a DMR channel and will either lock up, have the screen fade out slowly and restart or lock up, get stuck on the channel, never clear the caller ID and not respond to any commands. That issue requires a battery pull to fix. Also will lock up and lag for a few seconds before accepting inputs and clearing the channel/caller ID. I haven't found a rhyme or reason to those issues since everytime it's happened I needed to clear it quickly and didn't have time to try to diagnose.
 

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Nice write up, I say to you, log into the support site, sign up, and submit your report.


Thank you! Ticket's been made.

Also worth noting that thru testing just now, when P1 is An/NXDN/Mixed and P2 is DMR, lookback time A is used and the cutout is unnoticeable aside from signal strength indicator and RX led blanking out.
 
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