I am brand spanking new to these pagers and am just learning how to program them. I have a G4 pager that somehow is now muted. The only way to listen to any talkgroup is to hold the reset button for push to listen. Push to listen is turned off, I have tones turned on for all of the channels, it shows that I am on duty. I am not familiar w/ the programming side, but I had someone who is look into it and they advised that all settings are as they should be for our county. There is a small mute icon that appears at the bottom right corner of the screen whenever one of my units keys up. I have not changed any of the settings on the pager, it was given to a trainee who returned it stating that they touched nothing, that it was muted since she received it. Does anyone have any ideas as to what caused this and how to fix it?
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Do you have a different codeplug to put in your pager, as a test? (Read & save your current codeplug, before putting in the new one.)
blackbelter
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Has the pager set up for tone audio in PPS ?
D6 in PPS (zone & channel setting). What setting do you have for "Push to Listen" parameter?
Sorry, I missed that you said this was set to No.
Sorry, I missed that you said this was set to No.
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What have you selected as "Alert Mode" for the knob position(s) (tab D6 in PPS) in question? It should be "Tone", *not* "Silent", if you want to monitor the audio. If you don't want an alert tone, set the "Alert Mode" to "None" for the group(s) on tab D5.
I think I'm going to have to "recreate" the layout of talkgroups that we have. Unfortunately, I don't have the previous code plug for it. It was created for our 911 center to allow trainees to monitor our fire and police radios to train their radio ear, so it's not a codeplug that I have handy, it was just put together. Another question reference this, do you need to go through MPSCS to get the codeplugs for these? Or is it something that you can just create yourself by loading the talk groups? Sorry for the noob questions, brand spanking new to this.
I did double check this, they're all set to Tone. I was told having it on silent will make it muted. Is that true?
No worries bud, I'm just thankful someone even looks into this.
Yes, all of the talkgroups are set to tone.
You can create your own. I started with a borrowed one, but then created two from scratch. (For MPSCS.)
Did you read this and try these?
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G4 Assistance Please - Disabling Push to Listen
Greetings, I just received my G4 from Ray today (great guy), and I'm having a bit of an issue. I can't seem to get Push to Listen to disable. I've set it to "Yes" and "No" in PPS and it doesn't seem to have any effect. I have to push the button to hear calls with either setting in the knob...
I wanted to thank all of you for trying to help. I did get it figured out thanks to Rays (they're awesome btw). In the programming, it was selected to be silent. I can't remember where no as I don't have a pager to go into the program (this was for a trainee, I don't have my own) but it was fixed. Once I get my hands on another one, I'll post the fix for anyone who has this problem in the future. Thanks though to everyone who tried to help, I really appreciate it.
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