APX Programming weather frequencies

[mhoover4]

All, I am having an issue with programming the weather frequencies in my radio. I have had them programmed in a XPR 5000 and all worked fine, upgraded to the APX 8000 used the same format and the radio will not open squelch when the 1050 tone is transmitted. I have the following setting in my radio, am I missing something?

MDC
Quick Call II
Single tone set to 1050
A pl of 67(to close the squelch)

Any assistance would be helpful.
Thanks Mike
KD2EXQ

 

[rbrtklamp2]

Try and set the PL to off and use CSQ. The way you have it set up now looks like it's looking for a tone of 67.0 to open the squelch and there is no tone on the weather station. Set it to CSQ and reset the alert after the tone when you want the radio to go back into tone standby mode.

 

[tunnelmot]

yep. The PL is killing your vibe.

 

[MFG_rrt]

All, I am having an issue with programming the weather frequencies in my radio. I have had them programmed in a XPR 5000 and all worked fine, upgraded to the APX 8000 used the same format and the radio will not open squelch when the 1050 tone is transmitted. I have the following setting in my radio, am I missing something?

MDC
Quick Call II
Single tone set to 1050
A pl of 67(to close the squelch)

Any assistance would be helpful.
Thanks Mike
KD2EXQ

Do you mind explaining a little further how to set up weather stations in the 8k? I also have them programmed in my XPR 7550e and I'd like to add them to my 8k but your references to MDC, quick call II, threw me off.

 

[mhoover4]

I have removed the Pl and it will stay open on the active channel and won't scan the other frequencies I need to listed to. I use the radio for work and need to be aware of any weather alerts that may occur during our work operations as we may a long distance from safe shelter. Thanks
Michael
KD2EXQ

 

[mhoover4]

In the XPR 7550 there should be an option for signaling, MDC a sub category Quick Call II is for single tone signaling like the weather radios use 1050Hz tone. I don't have my programming computer with me right no. Over the weekend I will go through the program and post the outline. Thanks
Michael
KD2EXQ

 

[MFG_rrt]

In the XPR 7550 there should be an option for signaling, MDC a sub category Quick Call II is for single tone signaling like the weather radios use 1050Hz tone. I don't have my programming computer with me right no. Over the weekend I will go through the program and post the outline. Thanks
Michael
KD2EXQ

Alternatively, I can just program them in as a RX-only conventional channel and scan as I please. Right?

 

[zz0468]

I have removed the Pl and it will stay open on the active channel and won't scan the other frequencies I need to listed to.

The radio will stop scanning on the continuous weather broadcast, for obvious reasons, and putting it in PL will cause it never open up, because the weather transmitter doesn't send PL. In the typical Motorola scan function, it can be set to require both PL and carrier to scan correctly. How to deal with PL is built in to the scan function, in other words.

But I am not sure the PL can be replaced with QC in the scan function. That's essentially what is required to behave properly the way you want it to. The thing is, QC is not an alternative to PL, the two provide different functionality to the user, and unless Motorola anticipated it being used in conjunction with scan, you're not going to get the radio to do exactly what you want.

 

[mikewazowski]

I have removed the Pl and it will stay open on the active channel and won't scan the other frequencies I need to listed to. I use the radio for work and need to be aware of any weather alerts that may occur during our work operations as we may a long distance from safe shelter. Thanks
Michael
KD2EXQ

Buy a dedicated weather radio. Relying on a radio which scans is just asking for trouble.

What happens if your radio is listening on another channel when the weather alert is broadcast?

 

[MFG_rrt]

Buy a dedicated weather radio. Relying on a radio which scans is just asking for trouble.

What happens if your radio is listening on another channel when the weather alert is broadcast?

In this case, it's not critical. My scanning is for pleasure/hobby, so in the event I wanted to use the radio to listen to incoming weather there wouldn't be anything of priority the radio needed to hear above that. Also, it beats carrying three radios: scan, ham, weather.

 

[PrivatelyJeff]

In this case, it's not critical. My scanning is for pleasure/hobby, so in the event I wanted to use the radio to listen to incoming weather there wouldn't be anything of priority the radio needed to hear above that. Also, it beats carrying three radios: scan, ham, weather.

I did something similar with my work radio. 99.9% of the time it’s good weather but if things start looking off, I can click over to weather and hear what’s up.

 

[K2NEC]

On the weather channel it doesn't decode without the QCII but in scan mode it always stops on that channel. Guess QCII doesn't apply when scanning?

 

[zz0468]

Guess QCII doesn't apply when scanning?

No. It does not.