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MDC Side Tone - Different Tones

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Okay, this is driving me a little nuts because I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong and hopefully I can get some insight.

Recently programmed some of our radios for an event that we’re working. The radios are programmed in Talkaround with the applicable freq and DPL with MDC, no DOS. Same settings across all radios.

The MT2000s side tone emits the MDC 1200 squawk as it should (we leave it turned on because it kind of helps us since we record the traffic). However, the XTS3000 radios only emits a chirp (similar to the Moto ATIS) for side tone instead of the MDC 1200 tone.

Anyone have an idea of why it’s emitting a chirp side tone instead of the MDC 1200 tone? Radio IDs still show up as they should, but the chirp is throwing me off.


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laythrom said:
Okay, this is driving me a little nuts because I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong and hopefully I can get some insight.

Recently programmed some of our radios for an event that we’re working. The radios are programmed in Talkaround with the applicable freq and DPL with MDC, no DOS. Same settings across all radios.

The MT2000s side tone emits the MDC 1200 squawk as it should (we leave it turned on because it kind of helps us since we record the traffic). However, the XTS3000 radios only emits a chirp (similar to the Moto ATIS) for side tone instead of the MDC 1200 tone.

Anyone have an idea of why it’s emitting a chirp side tone instead of the MDC 1200 tone? Radio IDs still show up as they should, but the chirp is throwing me off.


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Are you hearing a sound similar to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT54M6Wl0xo

If so then you have DOS Muting enabled, if thats the case both radios are transmitting the full MDC1200 (hense why the ID is displaying), the radio with DOS muting enabled just attempts to mute the full MDC1200 sound and only the chip noise comes threw the speaker.
 
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jmorrissey23 said:
Are you hearing a sound similar to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT54M6Wl0xo



If so then you have DOS Muting enabled, if thats the case both radios are transmitting the full MDC1200 (hense why the ID is displaying), the radio with DOS muting enabled just attempts to mute the full MDC1200 sound and only the chip noise comes threw the speaker.
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Okay, much appreciated. I knew it was something that I was missing. Although I had DOS turned off for the XTS radios, I completely overlooked it for the MT radios.

Thank you.


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jmorrissey23 said:
Are you hearing a sound similar to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT54M6Wl0xo



If so then you have DOS Muting enabled, if thats the case both radios are transmitting the full MDC1200 (hense why the ID is displaying), the radio with DOS muting enabled just attempts to mute the full MDC1200 sound and only the chip noise comes threw the speaker.
Click to expand...



Enabling preamble (default is 300 ms I think) will actually mute the blip (I was playing with this with an XTS2500 and XTS5000 the other night).


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jmorrissey23 said:
Are you hearing a sound similar to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT54M6Wl0xo



If so then you have DOS Muting enabled, if thats the case both radios are transmitting the full MDC1200 (hense why the ID is displaying), the radio with DOS muting enabled just attempts to mute the full MDC1200 sound and only the chip noise comes threw the speaker.
Click to expand...



Enabling preamble (default is 300 ms I think) will actually mute the blip (I was playing with this with an XTS2500 and XTS5000 the other night).


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