XTL/XTS5000 Paging on XTS5000

[Keaclau]

I have an XTS5000R model 3. I programmed it in ASTRO 25 CPS, everything works great, however the county fire/ems paging channel that I had input does not come through on the radio. I have a minitor 6 pager in the next room so I can see what the radio does. The red light on top blinks when the radio receives a transmission, but there is no sound. I can transmit on the frequency, I just can't hear any of the received transmissions. I attempted to enable quik call II to see if that would maybe open it up, but it has not. The paging channel is not P25 or anything like that. I did input the freq and PL tones correctly. I am not looking to have selective call or anything like that, I just want to be able to hear all pages, like an "open tone" feature. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[n3obl]

They may not be transmitting PL tones when sending quick call tones. Try changing PL to CSQ and see if 1 you can hear channel and 2 will it alert.

 

[Keaclau]

They may not be transmitting PL tones when sending quick call tones. Try changing PL to CSQ and see if 1 you can hear channel and 2 will it alert.

I did that, comes up with “does not match feature set” which is odd because I have other channels listed as CSQ. I did change the personality from mixed mode to non-ASTRO and it was able to write, so we will see what happens.

 

[Keaclau]

They may not be transmitting PL tones when sending quick call tones. Try changing PL to CSQ and see if 1 you can hear channel and 2 will it alert.

That did it, works great! Thank you!