MDC emergency problem with XTS5000

[fire_master_21]

For those who haven't seen this on the other board.

I am working on implementing mdc-1200 ID department wide. Asa department we are using Kenwood Tk-5210 and Tk-2810 radios. I have everythingworking fine except on my XTS5000. Everything ID’s like it should during normaltransmissions. When I activate the emergency button on anything they show the emergencyreceived message along with which radio. All radios are giving the audible alertexcept this XTS5000. I have gone though and selected the alert and displayeverywhere can find it in the codeplug. I just can’t make this radio sound thealert to the emergency from another radio. Am I missing something here? I managed to make this work on my APX7000 and 80+ Kenwood’s without problems so I’m not a complete idiot.
HOST R.16.00.00
DSP R.16.00.01

Things I have already checked from other site.

"Under the MDC system>advanced make sure the make sure the emerg alarm rx is checked. also make sure the emerg enable is checked MDC system>Emergency if you want to be able to send emergency alarms."

Checked and done.

"Under radio configuration, go to radio wide. Once in radio wide go to TPS, under emergency alarm Rx indicator type, you should select Alert and display."

Checked and no change.

I have tried this with the above model KW radios as well as APX7000. This XTS is the only one not doing what I want.

[TheOCAstro]

Try under MDC tab, Emergency tab, emergency enabled checked, emergency type: alarm - call, Acknowledge alert tone: checked, Emergency PTT-ID Sidetone: checked.

That's how mine is set up and it works perfectly

[fire_master_21]

I have everything checked there as well. Still nothing. Thanks though.

[fire_master_21]

Finally progress! I got the the XTS5000 to alert. I used my APX7000 to transmit the emergency on a simplex channel. The XTS5000 is now alerting the way it should. The Kenwood radio will send the alert to the XTS5000 and the 5000 will show emergency call and the radio ID on the display however it still won't activate the alerting though.


The the XTS5000 will alert the Kenwood radios just fine. At this point I think it will take some more messing around to make everything correct. Dispatch however is able to decode but the Motorola's and Kenwoods.