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Hello all:

Is it possible to disable the trunking channels (make them completely dissappear) by use of software in this radio and leave only the conventional channels visible / operational?

Situation:
Drivers (school bus) are being confused by the trunking channel which I lobotomized (TX set to the repeater's output) and named "UNUSED". There is a language barrier ("ESL") which makes things worse.
The radios were purchased by the company's owner without my input or realization that this might be an issue, so he's stuck with them.
I've even thought of labelling the trunking alias, "PUSH +", to prompt the driver to change the channel to the correct one, but again ESL will be the downfall of this idea as well.
Add to this, occasionally the radio will come up on the trunking channel, on power-up, and the driver's world immediately comes to an end. HELP!

TIA

Stan

How about using their language for the alias?

Trust someone from "up-north" to get to the root of the problem.

In this country there are those who would take that move as an insult.
We ARE multi-lingual here, however we all speak English, just our own local dialects.

You have to keep in mind that most of these folks are doing well at making a VCR play a tape... "Set the time?" "WHO, ME??" "Push WHAT button... WHERE???"

They have some CDM750's in their fleet (most useless front panel I've ever seen). I am constantly re-enabling the "off hook PL override" to get rid of the "static". Like pushing the Monitor button? Turning off the invisible yellow light so they won't hear the taxi company in the next town. Or to put the radio back out of "talk-around". Yup, like putting it back onto channel ONE so they can reach the base. Anything more than a volume control and mic and some of these drivers will get real lost, real fast.

One manager even made up a hand-out SHOWING what to push and why... a wasted effort!

What makes this even more 'urgent' is that I've gotten hold of a few of the same radio for another site. But if the problem's at one, and I just heard about it a few days ago, it WILL show up at the other so I'll have to try and return the radios on hand here. No need to create repeat calls on stuff I sold. Ruins credibility... real fast.

So, any suggestions... hardware or software related? Please!

Stan

Sorry Stan, you can't remove the single Trunked mode. Best you can do is re-label its displayed name.

As another suggestion, use a label maker and print out the channel name the radio is supposed to be on. Then affix that label just below the LCD, perhaps across the bottom buttons (making them inaccessable). Maybe that will help the drivers ensure they are on the right channel?

Good luck

Yea I thought so! Was just hoping that I might have missed something.
Oh well!

Thanks anyway!

Stan