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MDC not decoding....

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I have numerous HYT TC-780's and TM-800 radios with MDC encode and decode enabled. It worked quite well. Transmits MDC 1200 as usual but now my models will not decode on my display over a 3 site voted conventional VHF repeater system. The county I live in just changed 2 sites to Midland repeater models from Motorola MTR-2000's at both of our transmit sites. Now my radios are not decoding the MDC at all. I can get the radios on simplex to decode each other. I did not do any changes to my HYT software so I am at a loss to understand why the decode function is no longer working. I do not use the D.O.S. function.

Any help as to how I could adjust my radios to decode on the different sounding Midland system would be greatly appreciated.
 

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A bit further...

I talked to a friend with lots of knowledge. He says it is possible that the vendor who installed the new Midland repeaters for some unknown reason did not enable something pertaining to audio emphasis. He says the Motorola repeaters have that automatically enabled.

Another note. Guys who use MDC equipped radios in the coverage area of the existing Motorola MTR 2000 receiver still decode on my radios.
 
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