Just getting into the VP600 radio I picked up this week. I've got a couple zones programmed in for some simplex and repeater channels I use. So far I'm really liking the Armada software (running version 1.36). One thing that's been eluding me is the Pre MDC ANI on repeater channels. For some reason I'm able to get it to work on simplex, but not on a repeater channel. The simplex and repeater channels are on two different systems but I've compared both system's settings and everything matches. The Pre MDC box is checked on the appropriate channel but it's not coming through on the other end and I'm not hearing what should be a short PTT Side Tone. I'm very new to this software so I'm sure there is some nuance that I'm missing. Anybody have any ideas what I might be missing?
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VP600 Pre MDC help
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mmckenna
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The repeater may not pass it, especially if it's being sent without the PL tone.
I would look for a pretimer in the software. When we went from 4W analog voters to IP voters we needed to leangthen the pre timing to get connsistant MDC. Some radios would not work at all and others were intermittant.
Jeepsandradios, that was it exactly. I was going to post later that I got it sorted out. The Motorolas I am familiar with have their MDC initial delay set longer by default than the VP600 so it just worked with them. When I increased that delay on the VP things started working.
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