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XTL/XTS5000 XTL5000 - Audio Amplifier Noise?

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Have an XTL5000 here which sits on the desk for local monitoring purposes. Hasn't been reprogrammed in some time. Over the past few weeks it's developed a odd tone whenever it unmutes to produce any sort of audio, whether that's for RX/voice on any mode programmed, or a simple keypress on the CH. The tone is a brief, short-long kind of beep, however it does not strike me as being MDC or any other sort of signaling.

Here's a recording of the tone, heard after enabling/disabling Scan.

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Tried:
-Different speaker
-Different J2 wiring harness
-Different power supply

Radio Info:
M20SSS9PW1AN, Dashmount
Host: 20.00.01
DSP: 19.50.00

Seem familiar to anyone?
 
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If you have mute in your menu or on keyboard, try that. If you still get that squeak something may be changing audio timing profiles.
My mobile does some strange button beeps depending on if the channel is busy or not.
I have a few blank channels programmed for future use, if I select any of those, the beeps are normal.
 
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Turn off all tones in the menu and if it goes away on reboot, look in your tone assignments for a priority tone of something.
 
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Interestingly, writing to the radio to add the mute menu item seemed to clear up the problem. The normal beep has returned on keypresses (with mute off) , and no leading noise on RX either. Hard to know where that strange noise was coming from, but I'll keep an eye on it.

Thanks!
 
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Well, unfortunately this cropped up again. Did take note of the fact that the radio randomly threw a Fail 01/90 during power up, and upon reboot to clear the error the tone had returned. This time the read/write did not resolve the issue. Swapped out the brick, cloned the codeplug and all is well, so I suspect something is failing on the old brick.
 
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you have failing hardware. Software/firmware can't fix failing hardware. Unfortunately, these radios are in their teen years and this is the expected life of a radio. Time to start shopping for a replacement. Good news is, these radios are becoming cheap (especially in the 700/800 variety) so don't overpay RAPEoff prices on Scambay. A 7/8 XTL shouldn't set you back for more than a C-note in good shape. VHF and UHF ones seem to fetch more but don't pay too much.
 
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Yes, fortunately have a few of them kicking around over here, so easy enough to swap one in. The old brick has a bright future as a doorstop though.
 
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