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I seem to be having siren issues with my trunk mount VHF XTL5000 with a W9 head. The siren used to work fine until my radio suddenly wouldn't boot when starting my car. It would only flash the backlight for a split second, turn off, then flash again until the ignition was turned off. The radio...

Hi guys, hope someone can help here. We have a Yaesu FT60R that was dropped accidentally on a hard floor. It looked like it hit on the end with the knobs and antenna. Afterwards, the volume doesn't seem to be adjustable and is so low as to basically be inaudible. However, the unit power-on...

I am fully aware of THIS post and i have followed it multiple times, however whenever i reinstall op25 with ./install.sh i get the same error over and over again: osmosdr source_c creation failure Traceback (most recent call last): File "./rx.py", line 921, in <module> rx = rx_main()...

Hello all, New to the forum and well as to UV-5R. I have been going through the process of setting up the BaoFeng and wanted to find out whether I was entering channels numbers in the correct way. It seems that I have to first select "0" before I can then enter the channel I want. That seems...

Hello guys and gals, this is my first post here so forgive me if I'm breaking any rules! I've been having an issue transmitting on a particular TDMA/FDMA DDM enabled Talkgroup. - CH 1 and CH 2 are under a single personality as two different talkgroups. We'll refer to CH 1 as "LMR" and CH 2 as...

I am trying to duplicate a problem with my radio - an ICOM R-8500 tonight with out luck. I purchased it in 1999. Are there jammers that will block an extremely wide area of bands? Below is a copy of my email to ICOM about my issue. The key work at the end of my paragraph is "intermittent" which...

ok so ive been looking around recently online to find a solution for the problem but cant find the problem im having and the fix to it. so the m5 i bought off a friend will alert on the closed alert channel and opens for x amount of seconds. seems to be when there is a break in dispatch it...

the button on my BC246T don't work !!! all the numbers and the other don't work just the ON/OFF work when I plug my scanner into my computer amd try to control it with bctool it don't work too !!! please help me !!! Pier-Yves

I am experiencing a problem where the feed is going offline often. This is a new installation of a feed, and, haven't had consistent operation with this feed yet. The source is an Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS server using darkice 0.19. It will not stay online for more that about 80 minutes before RR...