BUCKSHOT_106
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I recently purchased this radio for Fire Dept. use. Anyone else have one or have any experience with one. It has been a good radio so far.
Programming Software is pretty simple compared to motorola
The last thing I don't like is I can't seem to get it to resume scanning when putting the mic back on hook. There is a setting where you can program the radio to scan every time you put the mic on the hook, but that is not good if you don't always want to scan. There may be a way around this, but I haven't figured out what it is yet. /QUOTE]
Did you ground the Mic Mount? You have to ground the Mic Mount to the Vehicle Chassis for those Mic-On/Mic-Off features to work.
Did you ground the Mic Mount? You have to ground the Mic Mount to the Vehicle Chassis for those Mic-On/Mic-Off features to work.
I;m not sure what you mean by resume scan, but the radio will not scan period unless the mic hanger is grounded.
I will try and duplicate your problem. I will also discuss it with my Icom guru. It's possible that the radio can do it with an undocumented feature or workaround. It is not uncommon for Icom or any radio manufacturer to not know their product 100%.
For example Icom told me that LTR trunking on a 221 is impossible. I have it working. Vertex told me that a vx-920 cannot be used outside the rated bandsplit. I have my uhf working on 70 cm repeaters. Although this would be considered an outright hack.
Ok, I just programmed it up that way, which is programmable in CS-F100 "common" settings under "key and display" assignments, then I programmed one of the "P" keys (1 of 4) to "SCAN A Start/Stop" then under "Hanger Action", scan is clicked "OFF"
It will only scan now when P2, in my case is depressed.