Good morning. I dont have a lot of information on this system. There is a school that the Navy sends people to but no one on my ship has been able to attend. We have Motorola XTS2500I radios and I have the ASTRO 25 programming software. Other than that info I dont have a lot. I know there are some repeaters throughout the ship but I am not even sure what they are for. We have cables ran all throughout the ship. There are a few dead spots on the ship but I can't figure out what is causing them. On another ship I was on we had a specific radio that we could walk around with (was another system), and it would show us dB levels. Then I could find out where the level went to an unacceptable level, and troubleshoot that area.
I recently learned about RSSI and Smart Zones. I programmed a radio to show me the RSSI when I push a button, however it doesn't correlate to when I have a bad signal or not. Most of the ship shows 155 and the lowest I saw was 130. It most definitely wouldn't work at 130 and sometimes it worked at 150. Anything above 153 I had good comms. I feel like I don't have this radio setup properly to find an issue in my system.
Is there a way I can program a radio to show me where signal loss is happening? ANY information or a way ahead would be much appreciated. I am starting to get flak from my bosses saying that the radios are messing up, and I can't find out why. Thank you in advance.
I recently learned about RSSI and Smart Zones. I programmed a radio to show me the RSSI when I push a button, however it doesn't correlate to when I have a bad signal or not. Most of the ship shows 155 and the lowest I saw was 130. It most definitely wouldn't work at 130 and sometimes it worked at 150. Anything above 153 I had good comms. I feel like I don't have this radio setup properly to find an issue in my system.
Is there a way I can program a radio to show me where signal loss is happening? ANY information or a way ahead would be much appreciated. I am starting to get flak from my bosses saying that the radios are messing up, and I can't find out why. Thank you in advance.