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Help with Scanned transmission cutouts

fast9004

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Hello, we are a crew that uses Motorola R7 handhelds with digital channels. The crew is scanning an operating channel and recently just noticed that the scanned transmissions are randomly cutting out - like just cutting to dead air. The channel being scanned is powered through a repeater (Motorola SLR5700) but the crew is on a non-repeater channel while scanning (not sure if that makes a difference)
This is noticed by all the crew, not just one radio. This just started happening at the first day of being at a new venue. All has been fine with this equipment and procedure at other venues.
Any thoughts? I would appreciate insight from y’all with experience :)
 

sjaltavilla

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Couple of questions - is your SLR5700 configured as conventional (one repeater per frequency/channel), or IP Site Connect (multiple repeaters IP-linked together)? And how long is the "dead air" if you had to guess?
 
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