Radio problems with UHF radios.

[tbendick]

http://www.nycfire.net/node/645

Take a look at the above post.
Interesting problem with the radios.

 

[bklyndisp54]

To my ear it doesn't sound so much like "static" as it seems that the built in MIC in the radio is open and picking up the sound of the item hanging on the side of the radio.  (The built in MIC should cut out when a SPKR/MIC is connected.)  If running some noisy but non-metallic object...like hairbrush... on the radio produced the same result I'd be more sure that it's the MIC.

Otherwise, that's weird!

 

[tbendick]

bklyndisp54.

I made the video. It's not audio being picked up, it's a known problem with the radios.  Motorola has a fix for some models.  You can even hang the keys there and not move them and still get the problem.

 

[e203BCVFD]

interference maybe?  ??? ???

 

[bklyndisp54]

....it's a known problem with the radios.  Motorola has a fix for some models.  You can even hang the keys there and not move them and still get the problem.

Any idea what Motorola's fix is, or what they say is going on?

 

[tbendick]

I will have to ask my contact about what the fix is.

 

[FD347]

I'll give you one guess as to what they'll say... "Don't hang keys there."

 

[QUEENS1985]

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