Is there a way to show the signal strength on the display?. If I remember it only shows it when affiliated with a trucked system. Since this radio will be eventually used a receive only using NAS it obviously won’t affiliate. This radio is starting to be a pain to deal with and I might just bite the bullet and get a Uniden scanner which does show the signal level.
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XTL5000 Signal Strength
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A Relm KNG will also do true "RX only" on P25 trunking systems with no stolen software, hacking or system keys: and it's truly disabled from any transmission on said trunking networks. Will display both an RSSI "meter" and true RSSI in -dBM for testng BDAs. Several vendors who install BDAs on the system I care for use them and they work well. Not cheap but GOOD and CHEAP usually don't go together.
Same with most Harris radios
Related to MTS2000. Not XTS, but I program my APX for RSSI on conventional. I have a conventional personality set for RX only and I include all of my local RF site channels. (Control and VX) If I select the control channel, I get real time RSSI info for the site. I have a "Cheat sheet" which translates the RSSI values into dBm. This provides real time signal strength as received by portable. (I use this as I evaluate system talkout for testing/evaluating the need for BDA's. (Programming for personality for RX only prevents an illegal carrier event on system [in the event of a radio PTT attempt. Before anyone questions, I am a system admin for system in question)
This feature became available in APX around firmware 17.xx.
This feature became available in APX around firmware 17.xx.
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