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XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:15 am
by 3-SAM-12
I once again come to the great minds here at batlabs,
I have a VHF XTS5000
Model # H18KEH9PW7AN
Flash Code 5A0088-001D86-4
Firmware: R12.00.11
DSP: R12.00.01
When setting up the QCII< I can not get the radio to decode tones, but have not problems encoding. Any ideas?
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:39 am
by tvsjr
What are you encoding with? The A25 radios are very tight on tolerances... PL, QC2, etc. Your encode source may be slightly off frequency - close enough for a Minitor, but not for an XTS.
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:37 pm
by 3-SAM-12
tvsjr wrote:What are you encoding with? The A25 radios are very tight on tolerances... PL, QC2, etc. Your encode source may be slightly off frequency - close enough for a Minitor, but not for an XTS.
Our radios and stations are encoded with a motorola centracom gold elite dispatch console. I have checked with dispatch and the radio shop, the tones I have entered into the CPS are the ones that are being sent by the console.
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:00 pm
by tvsjr
The tones are never equal - there's always some tolerance. Have you looked at the repeater output with an analyzer? Overdeviated tones, tones slightly off freq., etc. will cause you problems.
I've had similar issues before, even with relatively modern equipment. I've got a portable repeater that uses a TS-64 to generate its PL... and it's just not tight enough tolerance for the XTS. One of the good and bad parts of DSP...
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:27 pm
by Pj
Do you have the unmute rule set correctly? That usually is the cause of it not alerting.
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:28 am
by 3-SAM-12
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:40 am
by Mfire39
Probably a dumb question, but you do have the RX signaling type set to QCII for the conventional personality you are trying to decode the tones on right?
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:47 am
by 3-SAM-12
Yes. If not the other options would be grayed out on the QCII page
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:53 am
by Mfire39
Just trying to cover all the bases..
-Marc
Re: XTS5000 QCII Decode
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:59 pm
by 26M10
3-SAM-12 wrote:tvsjr wrote:What are you encoding with? The A25 radios are very tight on tolerances... PL, QC2, etc. Your encode source may be slightly off frequency - close enough for a Minitor, but not for an XTS.
Our radios and stations are encoded with a motorola centracom gold elite dispatch console. I have checked with dispatch and the radio shop, the tones I have entered into the CPS are the ones that are being sent by the console.
I concur with this..
I have an XTS5000 that won't decode our fire tones because it is too picky...Our Gold Elite over modulates the tones and the 5000 won't decode the over modulated signal
