BCD436HP/BCD536HP: 436/536 reboots in Analyze mode

[N9JIG]

On my BCD436 and my BCD536 when I go to Analyze, then System Status and monitor a P25 site near me (the RWC Simulcast J site at Buckeye AZ on 769.11875) the radio will monitor it for a few seconds then reboot and go into scan mode.

This only happens when I monitor this particular site in the Analyze>System Status feature. When I listen to the site in scan mode it works just fine.

I have tried this on several other sites and never had an issue.

I wonder about the possibility of this being due to the fact I am about 1.5 miles from the site itself.

Is there someone else that is very close to a similar site that could try this and see if it does the same thing?

 

[cellphone]

Hi Rich. Have you tried reformatting the SD card and doing a clear all data in Sentenial? There have been some threads about this issue either being caused by too many recording files on the card (there is a limit of about 55,000 files) or a corrupt SD card.

If formatting and clearing data does not solve the issue, try an new SD card.

 

[N9JIG]

I have recording turned off altogether and it does it on 2 different radios.

I will try reformatting the card and see what happens.

If you are ever in my neck of the woods perhaps you can try it on that site on your 436.

 

[N9JIG]

Well, it is almost certainly an overload situation. When I get further away from the offending tower the radio behaves correctly. When I went near a different tower on a different site/freq the same thing happened. I guess it cannot tolerate signal strengths in that mode at those levels.

 

[troymail]

Well, it is almost certainly an overload situation. When I get further away from the offending tower the radio behaves correctly. When I went near a different tower on a different site/freq the same thing happened. I guess it cannot tolerate signal strengths in that mode at those levels.

That seems odd - why would it do that (excepting some type of bug)? I can't see why it would care about "too much signal"... weak signal(s) - sure - it may not work properly (but not reboot).

This would make at least two different issues now where these radios reboot (as a "solution"?).

 

[jasonhouk]

That seems odd - why would it do that (excepting some type of bug)? I can't see why it would care about "too much signal"... weak signal(s) - sure - it may not work properly (but not reboot).

This would make at least two different issues now where these radios reboot (as a "solution"?).

It's has to be a bug.

My 436 reboots while analyzing Ohio MARCS:IP.

I verified it's not signal as I'm around 1000 meters away from site and unit reboots with no antenna connected.

Houk