ks4ec
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- Sep 16, 2004
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My company just purchased a bunch of NX 3000 and NX 5000 radios. These are brand new, with the latest firmware updates. I have a single deck in my office (5800), and a dual deck (5700 - 5800) in my vehicle as well as a portable. These 3 all are all set up for Commercial NXDN, and Ham Analog and DMR and have the same problem as a friend of mine with the same setup in his vehicle.
Basically I get reports of audio intelligibility problems, some of the more technical people report it sounding like the Vocoder is dropping our form milliseconds at a time during a transmission resulting in parts of words being chopped out. We have tested with a few different DMR repeaters, all Motorola repeaters of different vintages. The receiving stations have been mostly Motorola radios, but someone with a TYT MD380 reported the same thing. This is happening on the 5800 deck, I don't have a VHF DMR repeater programmed in the 5700 deck yet to test that.
Just for giggles, I turned on my TYT and Quantun and talked over them and it was perfectly intelligible, then back to the Kenwood radios and got the same reports of bad audio.
A friend of mine has the same setup in his vehicle and I have noticed the same issue on his but I just thought it was something in his mobile environment, but now I am not so sure.
BTW all of the radios were programmed by the same Kenwood Dealer shop and are licensed with the same features, Wide Band (for amateur), Analog, NXDN ,DMR, Front Panel Programable.
Any ideas from the Kenwood Guru's???
Basically I get reports of audio intelligibility problems, some of the more technical people report it sounding like the Vocoder is dropping our form milliseconds at a time during a transmission resulting in parts of words being chopped out. We have tested with a few different DMR repeaters, all Motorola repeaters of different vintages. The receiving stations have been mostly Motorola radios, but someone with a TYT MD380 reported the same thing. This is happening on the 5800 deck, I don't have a VHF DMR repeater programmed in the 5700 deck yet to test that.
Just for giggles, I turned on my TYT and Quantun and talked over them and it was perfectly intelligible, then back to the Kenwood radios and got the same reports of bad audio.
A friend of mine has the same setup in his vehicle and I have noticed the same issue on his but I just thought it was something in his mobile environment, but now I am not so sure.
BTW all of the radios were programmed by the same Kenwood Dealer shop and are licensed with the same features, Wide Band (for amateur), Analog, NXDN ,DMR, Front Panel Programable.
Any ideas from the Kenwood Guru's???