G5 Programming Help System not reading as Trunked system

[RaleighGuy]

Okay I'm beaten and turning to the community for help. Trying to add a new system to and existing G5 pager.

Have attempted to add it via RR Import and manually with the same results, the info goes in and I'm hearing everything fine, but it appears the radio is not recognizing it as a trunked system. A couple of issues, first in Diagnostics it does not show any info, just Protocol N/A, second on the home screen there is no T displayed next to the bars, and finally (may be unrelated) the voice announcements are not working on the new system, but are on the older systems.

Any suggestions or questions?

 

[amys17]

What system are you trying to program. For voice announcement. Do you mean channel announcement? You have to put that in on the knob position if that's what you mean. It doesn't do it automatically.

 

[lebrunmn]

Regarding the protocol issue, and assuming the trunked system is P25, what do you have in the profile for this setting? It should look like this:

 

[RaleighGuy]

What system are you trying to program. For voice announcement. Do you mean channel announcement? You have to put that in on the knob position if that's what you mean. It doesn't do it automatically.

Cary/Wake P25, Wake Co North Carolina, and yes channel announcement

 

[RaleighGuy]

Regarding the protocol issue, and assuming the trunked system is P25, what do you have in the profile for this setting? It should look like this:
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Yes it matches that...

 

[RaleighGuy]

Regarding the protocol issue, and assuming the trunked system is P25, what do you have in the profile for this setting? It should look like this:
View attachment 111934

Yes it matches that...

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[pro106import]

Cary/Wake P25, Wake Co North Carolina, and yes channel announcement

Try putting in FFF for all of the rssi and sys ID and site number ect... RR info is not always correct. Put all 4 CC's in also. Primary and 3 secondary. It's not always BEE00 also. Put fffff in for that too.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Try putting in FFF for all of the rssi and sys ID and site number ect... RR info is not always correct. Put all 4 CC's in also. Primary and 3 secondary. It's not always BEE00 also. Put fffff in for that too.

That is the correct info from UT2, DSD+ and Pro96Com, but I will try it, thanks for the suggestion.

 

[pro106import]

That is the correct info from UT2, DSD+ and Pro96Com, but I will try it, thanks for the suggestion.

Ahh OK if you see that on dsd+ then it is correct. Ok u got me stumped.

 

[amys17]

All your programming looks correct. Got me as well.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Try putting in FFF for all of the rssi and sys ID and site number ect... RR info is not always correct. Put all 4 CC's in also. Primary and 3 secondary. It's not always BEE00 also. Put fffff in for that too.

tried changing it to FFFFF et al with no change

 

[pro106import]

Try putting this question on the North Carolina forum, or maybe the moderator can change it to over there, I bet you will get someone else that is successfully monitoring this system on their Gx pager.

 

[KO4RJX]

FWIW I directly imported everything from here into my G5 without any issues.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions, I found the solution thanks to @w2lie at East Coast Pagers. I needed to update the firmware that was seriously out of date. This corrected both issues I was experiencing on the new system.

 

[900mhz]

Phil is the best when it comes to Unication products. Glad to read of your success.

 

[WB6WQF]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions, I found the solution thanks to @w2lie at East Coast Pagers. I needed to update the firmware that was seriously out of date. This corrected both issues I was experiencing on the new system.

Good to hear that you solved your problem with a firmware update. That problem will, however, also arise with up-to-date firmware due to a glitch during programming. I just had it happen on a brand new G5. One solution is to export your programming, reset the radio, and then import your programming. What I did was to delete the channel, edit the "blank" channel (which won't actually be blank), change the settings to a normal conventional scan, save, and then change it back to TG scan. It seems that just deleting a channel is not enough because some of the information is retained. That's why a reset can be an easier solution.