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On my lowband x9000, the audio will completely drop at times. No rhyme or reason that I have been able to track down yet. The busy light will remain on and I will not RX audio until it feels like it or until I hit the PTT.

This is in a dual radio setup and is only effecting one radio and the connections are good.

Any place I should start to look? I have another x9000 that I am going to swap it out with.

Oh, this radio is set to squelch 1, and happens on PL and CSQ channels and even when the squelch is set to 0.

This sounds like something is broken.

Depending upon how much spare equipment you have, I would try checking for mechanical intermittents by beating on the radio good and hard with open hand. Maybe the signal processing hybrid is cracked where it mounts into the board.

I would try swapping connectors on the installation so the radio change place on the cabling. This would help eliminate an acessory group problem based upon maybe a bad speaker or other related problem.

I would then try swapping personality boards between radios or changing out the one questionable with a new or spare one. If it's bad, I would get a new one from an 800 MHz unit from Ebay. Lots of cheap units out there complete with acessory groups.

If you swap boards, remember to check jumper settings. HLN-4925 and HLN-5299 are interchangable but the jumpers are slightly different.

Sounds like you are going to have some fun. I have to check out a problem in my car as I have the dreaded 01-90 failure. This is the second overall failure I have experienced in 16 years of X9000 ownership.

Please contact me offline if I can help further.

George