How to display the received signal strength in both RSSI and dBm for both Conventional and Trunking on APX radios?


Issue

How to display the received signal strength in both RSSI and dBm for both Conventional and Trunking on APX radios?

Environment

APX Customer Programming Software (CPS)

APX Radio Management (RM) 

APX Radio Central (RC) 

Resolution

In Conventional: If the subscriber has the Conventional RSSI Display feature enabled in the codeplug, there shall be a display while receiving that shows the received signal strength in both dBm and in RSSI.

Conventional Personality > Features, enable Conventional RSSI Display

In Trunking: – When the user presses the button assigned to “Site Displ/Search”, there shall be a display with dBm and RSSI signal strength for the current site.

Radio requires firmware 29.0 or later

All APX radios

 

The RSSI dBm values are programmed as a button using the Site Displ/Srch shown below found under Radio Ergonomics > Controls > Buttons.

APX CPS/RM:  

 

APX RC: