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Can't here NXDN traffic?

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So I bought a NEXEDGE UHF radio and programmed it to the frequency that I need it at. Everything's fine there, however when I am listening I don't get any sound, only the receiving indicator light. I put my TX frequency on an frs channel so that just in case I key up I won't do much harm, could that be the issue? I was also thinking that they were encrypted but not sure.
 
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Not much to go on there but I have a couple of knee-jerk responses based on my own mistakes early in the game:
If the transmission you're trying to hear is 12.5 kHz wide, make sure you set the channel bandwidth to "Narrow" on the channel programming line.
If the transmission is 6.25 kHz wide, make sure you set the bandwidth to "Very Narrow".
If you don't know the RAN code (NXDN's coded squelch) then don't enter anything in that box, leave it at 1.
Good luck with it.
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Vern said:
Not much to go on there but I have a couple of knee-jerk responses based on my own mistakes early in the game:
If the transmission you're trying to hear is 12.5 kHz wide, make sure you set the channel bandwidth to "Narrow" on the channel programming line.
If the transmission is 6.25 kHz wide, make sure you set the bandwidth to "Very Narrow".
If you don't know the RAN code (NXDN's coded squelch) then don't enter anything in that box, leave it at 1.
Good luck with it.
Vern
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Thanks Vern. I will try that. Unfortunately I don’t know what the bandwidth is, but it should be easy to troubleshoot.
 
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As Vern said, very narrow NXDN (6.25KHz) is not compatible with narrow NXDN (12.5KHz), the bit rates are different. If you have it programmed wrong, it will not decode the audio.

If it's a trunked system you are trying to listen to, it won't decode traffic from a trunked system unless you have the system key.

If it's encrypted traffic you'll either hear garbage, or nothing, depending on how your radio is set.

Other than that, sounds like a programming issue.
 
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