First off I’m not a radio expert so hang with me here…I was just issued a new XL-45P radio by my department and I’m trying to figure this thing out. It has the “caller ID” and the user can add contacts from the radio itself. I have had no issues adding “contacts” (unit numbers based off the radio ID) but after adding 20 contacts it is no longer saving them. I guess my question is, does the radio only allow 20 contacts? Am I missing something? Any tips or suggestions are welcomed and again I apologize for being a little radio ignorant…..Thanks in advance!
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XL-45 caller ID
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I’ll test this out and get back to you… time to see if I can do this on the 200P…
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Is this a P25 system and are you using this for individual calls, or what? Depending on system type, there are a couple different applications for caller IDs. It'd be helpful to have a better understanding of your usage case.
Caller ID should populate as calls come in. The limit may be 20, I’m not sure. You may want to explore an iCall list or an Alias list, but that will require access to the mission plan as these things cannot be done from the front panel. (An iCall list can be set to reserve some places for manual entry, but the number of entries is limited.)
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Once I got my 185 set up I noted that the caller ID list populated itself pretty quickly. At first I was a bit concerned that they may have been i-calls that had been directed at my radio which had me a bit worried that I'd duped a supervisor's LID or something. Out of an abundance of caution I rewrote the personality with a different LID and the behavior remained the same so I stopped worrying about it.
If by "contacts" you mean adding to the "User Icall list", yes, there is a limit to the number that the user can enter from the keypad. We had the same issue with the XL-45 and confirmed via TAC. From RPM2 you can add as many as you want (I think), but the user entered list is stored differently and is limited.
