They are using the wrong external speaker connector on that GTX. It has an extra jumper on it that is causing the radio to continuously power cycle any time the power switch is in the off position. As it does so, it affiliates and deaffiliates. You'd think the user would figure something wasn't right when the backlight keeps going on and off.
BTW, this was a great way to catch the tow operators who were putting extra radios on the air - they'd clone the radio ID from one of their Jedi portables into a GTX mobile they'd acquired and then slap the first mobile speaker they could find on it. With the extra jumper, the radio would do its winky thing and I'd see it on TRUNK88. When the radio ID was checked in our database, we'd see that it wasn't assigned to a GTX (the only radio that will aff/deaff all day long), so we'd kill the ID and they'd lose both radios.
That also clued us in to which fleets were in to cloning, so I set up a laptop that only displayed activity for one fleet (talkgroup) at a time and we'd get a coworker to watch them for an hour or so and assign names to every RID she saw on the screen (and heard on her portable) - it didn't take her long to hear voices that didn't match the names being displayed onscreen and you could hear her "I got you, you bastards!" through the entire office. Bam, more dead radios in the middle of their shift. We made the customer bring in every legit radio they had to get reprogrammed (new talkgroup and radio IDs) - that let them know we meant business.
I'm guessing they affiliate and de-affiliate many times per minute ;-)
