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TK-8180 MDC Issue

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cmpaget

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Hello,

I just updated my TK-8180 last night to be able to encode/decode MDC IDs. I'm currently having an issue where, when I receive an MDC ID, it will display properly, but not clear off of the screen after the Auto Reset Timer has expired, I have to actually press a button for the channel name to appear again. My timer is set to 8 seconds. Is this too high? The default is 10. Should I lower the Reset Timer? Any suggestions/solutions would be greatly appreciated.

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cmpaget said:
Hello,

I just updated my TK-8180 last night to be able to encode/decode MDC IDs. I'm currently having an issue where, when I receive an MDC ID, it will display properly, but not clear off of the screen after the Auto Reset Timer has expired, I have to actually press a button for the channel name to appear again. My timer is set to 8 seconds. Is this too high? The default is 10. Should I lower the Reset Timer? Any suggestions/solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
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I have not had any luck finding a solution to this problem. I have extra channels in my radio that do not have the TX frequency set as I do not have the rights to transmit on those frequencies, but I do that so I can double the radio as a scanner. I would love to be able to turn MDC decode off for those other frequencies so that when I'm in scan it will not decode the MDC, put up the four Hex digits and then have that stick on the screen.

I think there is a bug in the firmware where the reset timer does not work when in scan, but that's only because I only ever see the problem in scan mode.

Brian
 
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