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Hey guys. I went from a MT to a MTS and I love the radio. Just one strange thing I have been having problems with is the battery. Both radios were programmed the same with the same channels. With the MTS, the battery light comes on every time I transmit and chirps when I release the PTT. Today, it would not allow me to transmit and made the low battery continuous tone while trying to transmit on one channel, but I went over to three more and it worked no problem until I released the button but did the chirp and had the battery light illuminated. I just switched my battery this morning and they are a year old. I don't get why the low battery light comes on and makes all the noises when I transmit but will disapear right after and the radio will last a full week just listening to it.
 

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The MTS is probably drawing more on Transmit than the MT did.

It could be it is set to higher RF power out on the MTS than the MT was.
 

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There could also be an issue with low voltage set to high.
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you could have a battery pack with a bad cell. If this happens the device will show low battery prematurely when you put a heavy load on it, such as transmitting.
Or the device could have a bad RF link to the antenna causing it to somewhat short out and try to get the RF deck of the radio to consume to much power.
Definately sounds like the unit needs to be professionally checked out. Put it on a bench and let a tech trouble shoot it.
 
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Thanks for tyhe help guys. I just spent a hefty pennie on the radio and I was told by a local motorola dealer around here a while back that you pay close to $300-500 just to ship the radio out to the actual motorola techs. So it's nothing I can do tho, something inside the gutts of the radio? I tried swapping antennas before with no luck.
 

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There was a flaw in some of the early models. We had about 200 with the same issue. Turns out they were not using enough Wakefield compound between the chassis and the PA.
 

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Try shopping around a bit more. If you take it to a "radio shop" and they are sending it to motorola with out even looking at it, then they either dont have a trained tech on hand, or dont want to deal with it. Sending it to motorola for that much money is called Flat Rate Repair.
A good shop will have their tech bench check it first, look for water damage, physical damage, check contacts, stuff like that, also put it on a service monitor and check the RF side of it and make any necessary adjustments. If its a costly repair then they should recomend sending it to Motorola.
I worked at a Motorola Authorized Service Center for 8 years and thats how we did it.
 
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