Hello, I have my unification g5 from my fire dept, last night I shut it off while I was in class, I come out turned it back on and hear some radio traffic on my way home, well I got got home, and had a red light flashing, it says "out of range" it's said this now for 8 hours, it always works at my house, but for some reason now it doesn't want to, does anyone know what could be my problem before I take it to a radio communications store, thanks!
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Also, check your programming. Make sure you have all 4 possible control channels programmed in for the site you are monitoring. The control channel may have changed. Are you using an aftermarket antenna or the stubby purple banded one? Some after market antennas disturb the SMA connector center pin.
Make sure you only have one site and associated primary and alternate control channels programmed in a single knob position. The G series will lock on to and hold the strongest site to the exclusion of any others programmed in the same knob.
tglendye
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River- VA
Just a couple of thoughts. Possible antenna damage. Did you drop it? I'm assuming not. Do you program it yourself? If so, try programming it again with the PPS and see what happens. Maybe a control channel changed- are others in your department having same issue? There is a wildcard setting for the control channels you can enter, if it's not already. That way it will look for another control channel matching the systems ID, if the CC did change. All of these are just guesses, but could be what you are experiencing.
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Possibly reset the battery by pulling and resetting can help.
Webodisk
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Todd you getting anything on Charlottesville yet ??
tglendye
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River- VA
It’s been a while since I’ve tried. I’m on the other side of the mountain too, so I don’t know if it would be able to receive a signal. I’ll pm you if I do.
Webodisk
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I have been checking every time i go thru there
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