XTS 5000 not receiving mixed mode frequency properly.

[Mogley]

Hello fellow radio geeks. I recently picked up an xts 5000 as I wanted to dive into p25 monitoring (non trunked) The port authority police have two listings on radioreference. Both same frequency. One's analog and the other is P25. I tried programming this into my XTS 5000. For some reason when they talk on the radio, nothing comes through on my XTS 5000 and the receiving light just flashes red and nothing comes through (Analog voice as I used my analog scanner and it comes in just fine)

If anyone knows what I could be doing wrong please let me know. I will try and provide helpful screenshots below.







Hope these can help someone tell me what I possibly broke.

Thanks,
Mogley

 

[hp8920]

Deviation is wrong, you need 2.5 kHz deviation/12.5 kHz channel spacing (shown as FMN, FM Narrow, in RR). This will mess up PL squelch.

 

[Mogley]

Deviation is wrong, you need 2.5 kHz deviation/12.5 kHz channel spacing (shown as FMN, FM Narrow, in RR). This will mess up PL squelch.

I switched it to 12.5 like you said. Let's see it it works or not. Il let u know.

 

[Mogley]

Alright for some reason it fixed the issue. All my other channels are default 15 spacing and I didn't run into that. Weird but thank you kind sir. Appreciate it.

 

[hp8920]

You're in an area with frequencies in 470-512 MHz, called T-band. These are likely to be 25 kHz, as they were exempt from narrowbanding, because they were going to be taken back and auctioned (which got cancelled).

 

[mmckenna]

Alright for some reason it fixed the issue. All my other channels are default 15 spacing and I didn't run into that. Weird but thank you kind sir. Appreciate it.

If you have your deviation set wrong, the radio will be looking for a signal with a higher deviation. The narrow deviation signal won't trigger the PL decode. Totally normal and the issue you experienced would be expected.

Yes, T-band was exempt from the narrow banding requirement back in 2013, however looking at your codeplug (what I can see), your frequencies are not in T-band, and should all be running narrow deviation. Some radios may be a bit more sensitive to it. Some repeaters may have their PL deviation running a bit higher, which may explain why some of the channel work, even though set to the 5KHz deviation.

Easy fix, give it a try and see if it helps.