mrkage
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Our county is doing a P25 upgrade and our FD was issued APX 6000XEs. When we were trained on them, we were told of an issue where if we are scanning and the radio stops on a channel, we have to wait for a channel to clear, before we can transmit on our channel that the radio is set to.
As an example, let's say that a zone has 10 channels, A through J. I have my radio set on our FD channel, which for this example is channel B. While I am on a fire scene, I am scanning to pick up dispatch, our Tac, and an neighboring department's channel. Someone from the neighboring department keys up on their channel, which is channel D. If you watch the screen, Channel D stays on the screen for 4 to 5 seconds after they are done transmitting. What we were told during training is that even though our radio is set to channel B, if we press transmit while the screen is still displaying channel D, we will transmit on D. Does anyone have experience with this? Is this a setting somewhere or just the nature of the radios? With our previous Motorola radios, even if someone was actively talking on Channel D while we were scanning, and our radio was set to Channel B, we would immediately transmit on Channel B upon keying up the radio. This new way just doesn't seem right. But maybe it is. Thanks for any input.
As an example, let's say that a zone has 10 channels, A through J. I have my radio set on our FD channel, which for this example is channel B. While I am on a fire scene, I am scanning to pick up dispatch, our Tac, and an neighboring department's channel. Someone from the neighboring department keys up on their channel, which is channel D. If you watch the screen, Channel D stays on the screen for 4 to 5 seconds after they are done transmitting. What we were told during training is that even though our radio is set to channel B, if we press transmit while the screen is still displaying channel D, we will transmit on D. Does anyone have experience with this? Is this a setting somewhere or just the nature of the radios? With our previous Motorola radios, even if someone was actively talking on Channel D while we were scanning, and our radio was set to Channel B, we would immediately transmit on Channel B upon keying up the radio. This new way just doesn't seem right. But maybe it is. Thanks for any input.