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Quick Call Voice Mute default on

mngrp089

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We are using Motorola APX 4500 radios for paging out our fire departments. Is there a way to default the radio to automatically voice mute the radio at startup? Right now you have to push the voice mute button after powering up to mute all voice and tones not associated with that specific tone.

Thanks!
 

cpg178

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I know with the XPR radios you can set the signaling to AND instead of OR when using the QCII selective call function and it keeps the radio muted until a call with the proper tone pair comes across. Not sure if that can work with APX but it is worth a shot if you haven't tried that.
 

Tech21

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Motorola actually just changed this with the new release as of 01-17.

You can now have VMUTE enabled on power on.

RADIO WIDE -> Audio Options -> ICUA Power UP Muted.
 
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