I too have been having the same problem ever since the Miles update. Fed up with it I’m now searching the forums for an answer. As someone else indicated, range was always a four second limit, but channel – what ever it’s tuned to – was open-ended. The behavior I’m observing is, again on CHANNEL, I’ll be listening to someone’s transmission, such as BigRat in the TA, and I’ll stop getting VOX data (His voice) but will see that he’s still transmitting (Name in upper right corner). I’ll have to send him a request to “repeat after X” – X indicating the moment I lost transmission. The amount of transmission does not appear to apply to the 4 second rule like Range. I can loose him in the first syllable, or after 20 seconds.
I have noticed that I can force this behavior, some times, by hitting the TX button – either Range or Channel. I think that this is causing the MILES system to loose synch and truncate the transmission. What’s weird is, though I might be missing part of the transmission, other guys listening to the transmission hear the entire message. This would indicate that the problem, when initiated by hitting the TX while receiving, is local to my machine.
But, as I said, this can only be duplicated on demand some times. The random nature of this issue is making it difficult to troubleshoot.
As recent as last night I was talking to BigRat, and he said that it was difficult to teach because of this issue. Perhaps this is some new “feature” meant to make us get the feel of the 1940’s radios? But it feels like a bug to me.
Now, TUX, you said you resolved this by changing the TX button. Could you clarify that a bit. Are you saying that you’ve remapped the standard TX button “T” to some other button, such as “F11” for example? Or did you map it to a different button on your joystick?
