HT1250 beep while transmitting

[arlojanis]

I have a VHF HT1250 with an Otto evolution mic. Sometimes while transmitting, the speaker will give a low pitch beep. The battery is fully charged. What can cause this?

[escomm]

Is it more like a beep or more like a boop?

[arlojanis]

It is more like a boop or an unprogrammed button being pushed.

[HLA]

does it always do it at about the same time into the transmission, like 2 or 3 seconds?

[arlojanis]

Yes, if it happens, it is aout 2 or 3 seconds into transmission.

[escomm]

are any signalling systems being used and does the radio cease transmitting when the boop comes out or does it continue transmitting as normal

the tone is not battery related

[arlojanis]

No signaling systems on the test channel. Transmission keeps on like normal.

[HLA]

shure sounds like a sidetone to me letting you know it's ok to start talking especially since it does it every time at the same time

[arlojanis]

Tone only happens every once in a while. Some days the tone does not happen.

[Renamon]

I had a 1250 do this, turns out one of the side buttons on the radio was really sensitive/almost stuck. When I used a speaker/mic, it would randomly beep every now and again (just the short, you can't do that beep. A "pressing your dynamic priority button while you are NOT scanning" beep). If I used the PTT on the radio, it would do it more often.

I ended up selling the radio years back in that condition.