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Our Mototrbo radios all have a unit number identifying. Every single unit out a few thousand have a 4 digit number to identify. Is there anyway that one could mask that 4 digital unit number while transmitting? Tonight I looked up at my radio which is mounted behind our heads for various reason, yet some see it as an opportunity to cause trouble. Tonight I looked up seen a 4 digit unit number transmitting yet I was getting no audio. Been going on for sometime as if someone is blocking me. As I seen the unit number I swiftly pulled my handset(mic) from the unit and I began then hearing traffic and another unit in tail end of their conversation. Same thing happwn early in the day. I just want to know because there is no unit in our garage with the 4 digit number I first seen, maybe another garage or one of a dozen dispatch radio or road ops radios possibly.

So question is by any chance is there anyway one could be in a particular unit yet mask it with another unit number? I thought about this long ago thinking someobe may of stole a radio and has been using it to eavesdrop of drivers.
 
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If your system is analog, then the following might cause it. It is probably a different system on the same freq using a different PL or DPL. You didn't hear them, because of that different PL/DPL. Once you took the mic out of the clip, the PL/DPL is disabled, so that is why you could hear them then. If it is digital, then it could be any number of things.
 
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