The Raider documentation has multiple examples of how to set up the controller with various radios. Spending some time looking at these and documentation on the Vertex radio, along with an oscilloscope and service monitor, should help you figure things out.
The Vertex radio needs to pass raw discriminator to the controller which handles the decoding, so set the Vertex radio to operate as a full duplex base (non-repeating) and operate in carrier squelch mode. Once you get the controller happy as far as receiving, then set the transmit including the polarity of the data word if using DPL or LTR formats. Also there were different versions of firmware for the controller. If you intend to use the Raider in LTR mode or to decode DPL, the controller needs to see the undistorted data essentially down to DC. If you are only decoding PL tones then you can tolerate a bit of low frequency roll off since the lowest PL tone is 67Hz.
Trident is no longer in business so you are somewhat on your own.
Personally I was never really impressed with the way the Raider handled repeated audio, especially in LTR format.
Milt
N3LTQ
Quoting "Jared Smudde via groups.io" <computerwhiz02@...>:
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Has anyone had experience with a VXR-9000 and a Trident Raider LTR controller? I've got the carrier light on whenever I try to key up but I can't get the receive light to come on and handshake. I've tried messing with the dipswitch with no luck but I have no idea if I need to remove any jumpers or not, there's nothing about Vertex repeaters being used on Trident controllers. I've gone through and aligned both the repeater and controller.
Jared Smudde