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This may help: http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorol ... acing.html

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I haven't touched a CP200 in many years, but I am thinking you could create a scan list that is assigned to every channel with Selected and your channel 11 channel in it. Set it up to auto scan, and set the 11 channel to the priority channel. That means though that you would have to put that 11 chan...

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From my experience trying to sell off a couple of surplus regular 5550 control heads, it will not. But, I have not dug into it myself, just feedback I received trying to sell them.

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Contacted Motorola trough MOL, gave them the radio TANAPA and model and they came back with the part# for the new screen I had received that does not work. It actually appears that the radio would not complete it's bootup with that new screen. I could not get my computer to recognize the radio at al...

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I have a SL7550 (not an E version) with a broken screen. I ordered a replacement screen from Wiscom. After a long backorder from Motorola, including a part# change, I finally have the screen. Putting it in the radio, I get nothing at all on the screen. It just stays black, no flickers, no nothing. P...

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Just wondering, where did you find the info on how to change the text modes? Is there some undocumented features document out there somewhere, or do I just suck at searching these forums?

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AWESOME!! You rock!!!

Thanks!

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I just found that on MOL.... I guess I'll be having a chat with the owner of the system we are using in the next couple of days. Thanks for all the feedback!

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yeah, I have come to the same conclusion too. Thanks!

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Does anyone know how to get a 7550's text entry mode to change? Mine are stuck in some mode where it is trying to predict what I am typing, and won't let me just type things in, like names. I did find in the radio menu to turn off predictive text, but it does not seem to make a difference. Strangely...

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Does anyone other than M make radios that will work on a Connect Plus radio system? We are unhappy with the discontinuation of the 6550 portables and not happy with how connect plus is implemented in the 7550 portables. (For the people that did not know, Connect Plus requires option card programming...

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What I usually do in that case, once I have cloned it to the new radio, I then close the codeplug in the software then read the newly cloned radio. Change the ID then write it back to the radio with the normal programming, not cloning.

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We found that home channel reminder for sure.... At least it was not a super loud annoying beep. Took me a while to figure out what this weird tone I kept hearing was after I updated my radio and CP firmwares earlier this week. I do find one touch access buttons in the CP CPS, but I can not assign t...

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Not that I have been able to get to work. The annoying part is that Connect Plus uses the option card and a different software to program that card. If anyone remembers back to the passport trunking days, same sort of kinda badly planned out integration into the radio.

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Has anyone figured out a way to define a button to take you to a specified home channel on Connect Plus? I see in the new firmware there is a way to specify a home channel now, but all that seems to do is enable an annoying reminder every 2 minutes that you are not on the specified home channel. I h...

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From what I remember, you can not delete all of the LS trunking repeaters without generating another error. So, you should have 1 trunking repeater in there somewhere that needs to be set to narrow band.

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I have a XPR4550 in our office on a Connect + digital system. We would like to add a deskset to it at one of the other desks in the office. Any suggestions for what works well? It does not need to be a Motorola solution, if someone knows of something else that works well. I do not need channel steer...

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If there is anything connected to the accessory connector, make sure that none of the speaker output pins are grounded. I had a bus radio do that do me on a swap out one time, the speaker they already had was grounded.

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I just downloaded it from http://www3.telus.net/PassiveRF/ and had no issues getting it to run on my windows 10 computer. I ran the installer in compatibility mode for windows xp SP3. It did require running the installer as an admin as well.

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I kind of remember if the MIN and ESN on a passport option card in our CDM's did not align with the system operator's records, our radio would say disabled on the screen. It could be there is a passport zone setup on the radio and he bumped a button to move into that zone.

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From what I recall it is not glued into the case. It is held in by a chrome metal clip sort of thing. Pretty straight forward to get out once you have the radio apart.

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Your charger may have a handy sticker on the bottom of it that shows what the color codes mean. Yellow means it is conditioning. This process, depending on how large the battery is, can take a very long time. I have 1 high capacity battery that when it decides to condition when I drop it in the char...

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I used to use warris series HT1250 impress batteries on an XTS2500 a lot. You do not get a battery gauge on the XTS2500 radio using this setup.

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Depending on the software version (not sure if it works in all versions), you can double click on the listing in the all invalid field's screen, and it will take you to the invalid information so you can correct it. You will have to resolve all of the invalid fields before you can save the file or w...

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I have one sitting on my desk. I really like it. Weather wise, it works just as well as any of them I have tried over the years. Where I really like it is the audio quality listening to regular FM radio. It has a very nice sounding speaker and sounds great. Also decodes all of the radio station text...

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How do the various linked systems handle roaming? Do the repeaters transmit some sort of heartbeat, do the radios transmit every so often to see if the repeater is there?

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From what I recall, a jumper from pin 4 to pin 10 will make the radio turn on as soon as it gets power, assuming you have ignition switch enabled and are not using the alarm out function. We had to do that for a fleet of buses that had switched power coming to the radio instead of re-wiring them all...

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It does sound to me like you have the passport option card in the radio. If the option board check mark is selected in a channel, when you hit that channel it will switch to the option card programming including buttons and zone defined in that card. Make sure that the option board check mark is cle...

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You should be able to jumper the ignition sense pin to one of the other pins in the connector on the back to power it on. I will have to dig around to see if I can find what 2 pins those are. We had to do that to make radios turn on by themselves on busses where they already switch the power leads. ...

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Great information everyone, I appreciate it. I totally agree with the Ip connection parts. Right now our road commission is using IP site connect with 2 sites and will be switching from a dedicated IP link to an internet connection provided by an ISP. We will see how that goes. I don't like the idea...

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Our current operation is 4 analog repeaters with the same input and output frequency. The input PL's are different for each repeater, the output is the same PL so people manually pick north, south, west or east. This is proving to be pretty difficult for our users as there is a lot of overlapping co...

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Our county decided a couple of years ago to move one of our analog VHF services over to Trbo Digital. We are currently running 4 un-linked analog repeaters, north, south, east and west. 3 of the 4 sites have been upgraded to MTR3000 repeaters already, the 4th is still a MTR2000. This is being used b...

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There does appear to be some sort of internal antenna looking thing on the back of the case in a SL300 VHF. http://www.tdats.net/images/SL300inside.jpg I am pretty impressed with mine so far, but only had it a few days mostly analog. Tried to get a layer deeper, but the circuit board did not want to...

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Anyone have any suggestions for a software package for GPS tracking some trbo radios? The challenge is we are using Connect Plus. I asked our system operator, and he said software starts out at $40,000. Seemed a bit high to me. I have been playing around with TransTrbo, but it does not seem to like ...

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We have 2 digital simplex frequencies we want to include in the same zone as the rest of our connect plus talkgroups so our people do not have to switch zones to get to them. In the connect plus zone in the CPS, I disabled the option card on the channel position that I want to be simplex, wrote the ...

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Anyone know of a way to get RSSI to display on a radio on a connect plus system? We are starting coverage testing of a new system, and for the portable radio testing in buildings I don't really want to lug around a laptop running the RSSI tools on it if I don't have to. From what I am finding, it se...

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I am not seeing any way to do that in the CPS on a CDM1250. On a CDM1550 it seems to be hard coded into the left and right arrow buttons, but those do not exist on a CDM1250.

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Unfortunately, connect plus. So, we are stuck in the high tier radios. Thanks though!

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Will this radio support connect plus? We are in the process of converting to a connect plus system, and I wanted a small radio with a display and very few buttons for our maintenance staff. Figures, after I order a bunch of SL7550's, these would come out. I am not finding that info on Moto's website...

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Will this radio support connect plus? We are in the process of converting to a connect plus system, and I wanted a small radio with a display and very few buttons for our maintenance staff. Figures, after I order a bunch of SL7550's, these would come out. I am not finding that info on Moto's website...

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Not sure if this is your issue, but I have noticed the Admit Criteria on digital and analog channels is defaulted to Channel Free. Might have to be the the expert view to see that setting. If there is an analog signal (or any signal) on the frequency and you try to transmit, it will do the low beep ...

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I have been asked to come up with some sort of headset for our mobile communications trailer. Currently, it is configured with 6 radios, 2 CDM1550 VHF, 2 CDM1550 UHF and 2 XTL2500 800. Ideally what I would like are 2 headset stations, with some way to select what radios you wish to listen to and tra...

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KMB, The issue is the A revision cable took it's radio ground from the round antenna connector on the side of the 6500 series radios. On the 7000 series radios, there is no antenna connector in that position, so no cable ground connection. To modify the cable, open up the radio connector end of the ...

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On the plug that came installed in my remote head MCS2000, pins 1 and 2 are jumpered. There is also a jumper from pin 4 to pin 9. If I pull the plug out, the speaker quits working, so I assume one of these jumpers makes it work. It is not a model 3 head though, I think it is a model 2 head.

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Anyone care to chime in with real world battery life on the SL7550's? We would like to go to them when the system we use is upgraded. Use wise, they will be on a UHF connect plus system. No messaging or anything like that, no bluetooth, no scanning, just a radio on a talkgroup talking maybe a minute...

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Just an idea to toss out there, have no clue at all if it applies or not. Some managed network switches have various security sort of systems running in them to automatically protect computer networks from various attacks. Some of these sort of functions kick in over time. My thought is that the swi...

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yeah I did, and it did not work. The computer did not even detect the radio was connected from what I remember. The modified cable works fine on our 6550's and my 7550. Being that it is a ground connection issue, I wounder if some sort of other ground between the computer and the radio might make an...

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The A version of the cable uses a ground on the circular set of contacts on the side of the xpr6550. The xpr7550 does not have that connector on the side of the radio. Both mods should work fine. Moving the wire changes the ground contact from the circular connector to one of the other grounded pins...

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currently, we are using 8 talk groups on a passport trunking system. The SL is overkill, but the constant complaint from our staff is radio size and weight. The passport operator is adding a connect plus system in our area, so it seemed like a good time to replace our fleet of radios.

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Way cool, thanks RFGuy!

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