I have an XTS5000, and I recently set up NAS. It doesn’t affiliate at all. However, I am having trouble hearing transmissions and the radio is missing them. I’m unsure what the issue is but I feel like I may have possibly messed up the band plan. Any tips to stop missing transmission? (Monitoring Starcom21)
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MTS2000des
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The answer is your 20+ year old radio is dying. Fail 001 is a synthesizer out of lock. The XTS5000 BSM will tell you that.
See page 64:
From memory, my XTS completely ignores TDMA channel assignments. My guess is the bandplan is wrong, like maybe for 700 MHz. Does the site in question use 700 MHz?
Asunakiyori
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part = dying.... Software fix does not fix a dead hardware item
Confirm your 700 bandplan element. This may not be it, but if it works on 800 it's worth a try.
Here is a tip...slave a non user editable empty scan list for all trunking personalities...these radios are not able to TX or affiliate when they are busy bonking "EMPTY LIST" at you.
An extra extra extra step to lock down your rig. I have a legit subscriber APX that doesn't affiliate if I empty a scan list and change channels to a talkgroup with scan switch on.
Paul
An extra extra extra step to lock down your rig. I have a legit subscriber APX that doesn't affiliate if I empty a scan list and change channels to a talkgroup with scan switch on.
Paul
Never heard of that trick, but please explain in detail
Anderegg. Sorry bro
chrismol1
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No, that user is not saying to make a trunking talkgroup accessible by button or switch, they said in their findings it's an "An extra extra extra step to lock down" in the chance of a screw up and selecting a real trunked talkgroup. It's an interesting find. To put an empty scan list on the trunking personalities, (remember NAS is using the conventional personality scan list, not the trunking scan list) so if a trunked talkgroup is somehow selected and programmed personality with that empty scan list, the radio is caught up in a error loop instead of attempting to affiliate
My XTS, I usually hear dispatchers fine, some field users ar ground out with noise, eating the mic or too far from it. XTL with same codeplug sounds much better.
So how do you get digital voice if the scanlists are analog. I thought first 16 channels (analog) hide the digital RX only lists.
Yes exactly...I tested this by removing my scan members, selecting scan, then changing channels with a scanner next to me set to the input of the control channel...no blinky red LED, no chirp of affiliation either...left it that way for like 5 minutes to see if the bonking would ever stop, but it doesn't time out.
Paul
