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phadobas

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I have a fleet of radios on a Repeater. All firmware are 9.x.something. All radios work just fine, but if not in use, they always show available signal strength az 0 (little X in the corner of the screen). When in a conversation, it properly shows the bars, but only for the duration of the conversation. I'm trying to fix this as it misleads the users. I assume this is not normal behavior, and I just did repeater and/or radio programming incorrectly.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

The handheld radios are pd6 series, and I also have a few MD7 series in vehicles. The repeater is RD982.
 
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What about Conventional -> Digital Common -> Basic -> Beacon settings? For the repeater? I thought this was for the purpose of the repeater sending out a beacon every couple of seconds during idle times, so the radios can pick that up and determine the RSSI, and show porper signal bars. I'm not sure if these settings are for that, and if so, it's not really documented as to how to make this work properly. If these settings serve a different purpose, then never mind.
 
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phadobas said:
What about Conventional -> Digital Common -> Basic -> Beacon settings? For the repeater? I thought this was for the purpose of the repeater sending out a beacon every couple of seconds during idle times, so the radios can pick that up and determine the RSSI, and show porper signal bars. I'm not sure if these settings are for that, and if so, it's not really documented as to how to make this work properly. If these settings serve a different purpose, then never mind.
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Sort of. The beacon is for system roaming in conventional ( and From memory XPT) multisite systems.
But you cant ge an RSSi when their is no sigmal.
 
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