XTL 2500 Intermittent failure to receive while on scan

[hitechRadio]

When you say scan "All Stations" Channel. Did they program the ALL Stations as the ATG???

Additionally, there were issues with certain FW revisions back then that had issues, Compare the firmware between working and non-working XTL's.

You can check without a computer. Power off radio, then power up, and tap the home button 5times right after it boots and you see your channel name. You will here a strange tone. Take note of the display and it will scroll thru the features, FC, Model, Serial and Firmware,,etc.... Power down and back up to go to normal mode.

Also make sure HUB is set the way you want in CPS, Make sure Mic is grounded if using HUB defeats scan.

 

[wa8pyr]

Also make sure HUB is set the way you want in CPS, Make sure Mic is grounded if using HUB defeats scan.

Good point. That one has bit me on several occasions when somebody moves a radio to a new vehicle and the mike clip isn't grounded. Naturally, they always blame the programming (even though it worked fine in the old vehicle).

For a control station, you pretty much always have to uncheck the "HUB Defeats Scan" box, as there's no easy way to ground the mike in a fixed installation.

 

[jthorpe]

Update the firmware on the XTL as high as you can go. Try it then. I'm assuming that you have scanning setup as Pri Mon. There are several settings in the scan section that could affect this. Without seeing the codeplug though I wouldn't be able to tell you from here.

 

[wa8pyr]

Update the firmware on the XTL as high as you can go. Try it then. I'm assuming that you have scanning setup as Pri Mon. There are several settings in the scan section that could affect this. Without seeing the codeplug though I wouldn't be able to tell you from here.

Unfortunately firmware updates for the XTL/XTS radios are NLA from Motorola.