MTX8000 B4 Problem

central150 · Post by **central150** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:07 pm

I have kind of a weird problem with one of my MTX B4's. When transmitting, once in a while I will get a "bonk" tone from the radio, and am unable to transmit. Then, I dekey, then key up the radio again and it will transmit... Any ideas? I'm using it on conventional 800 mhz.

thanks,
-Tony

Post by **alex** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:04 am

Is it on a trunked system or straight up conventional?

if it's trunked, it's probably because the controller has decided you aren't important enough to talk.

But, since I know most of your use of the radio is conventional my guess is you might have something that has to do with a feature in the radio like don't key up when channel is busy - or something along those lines (forgive me, I got called into work to fix a problem early this morning...) Regardless, I think you get my point.

That's where I would start.

Is there any regularity to when this happens, and have you tried depressing monitor just after it happens to see what kinda channel activity you have?

-Alex

Bugs Bunny · Post by **Bugs Bunny** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:16 am

It sounds like you have timeout your handheld. Set the time out timer in the conventional mode to unlimited, and things should be fine.

Bugs

central150 · Post by **central150** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:29 am

Alex,

We are on conventional. I will look at the Smart PTT today and the time out timer.

Tony