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Being acquainted with Motorola and their CPS for some time now… I noticed Harris RPM let’s you chose between MDC STE and MDC… I understand the STE option transmits the packet before STE… was this Harris’ crude way of trying to mute out the horrendous packet for other radios on a system? What’s the best option? Select MDC STE? Or leave it blank
 

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Yes, but it doesn't mute reliably. Went back to Motorola, because other manufacturers cannot seem to make DOS work at all. I can't stand to hear that horrible sound and Motorola radios mute it pre or post. Neither L3Harris nor Kenwood got it right.
 

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IT FALSES!!!! my buddy had a situation where it for whatever reason mistook the packet as an inhibit command....so leave MDC STE unchecked correct
 
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