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Caffiene

I believe you are referring to this paragraph in the sticky: 2. Via SERVICE mode. To enter SERVICE mode, press the ".." button on the side of the radio 5 times, within the first 10 seconds of powering up the radio. The information will scroll across the screen. This process may have to be ...

Caffiene

I feel bad asking this question because I've seen the answer here before. I just can't find it now. In the XTS-3000, there is a test mode where the number of the button pressed on the keypad is shown in the display. The test mode is similar to the 5 key presses in 10 seconds, but it's different. Doe...

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All, I bought a 800 MHz Maxtrac on eBay to use as a control channel monitor. Come to find out, it has the SJI LTR firmware installed. Fortunatly, my local LMR shop was able to program the radio, but I want to be able to do it myself. Are the PGM-2 boards from SJI still available? If so, where? I loo...

Caffiene

Yes, Andrew, it does help.
Thanks,
-Caff

Caffiene

Hello all.
What is/are the key sequence(s) to test the buttons on an XTS3000? I remember once the sequence is entered, the radio reports in the display which button number was pressed.
Thanks,
-Caff

Caffiene

Larry,
It sounds like those little "RF's" might get confused travelling around in all those circles!

OTOH, as long as it happened to the onces coming down the antenna and not the ones going to the antenna, that would be a good thing!

-Caff

Caffiene

Isn't DES-OFB Output FeedBack.
As compared to DES-CFB or CipherFeedBack.
If I'm not mistaken, this the difference between DES and DES-XL.
I could be wrong, though.
-Caff

Caffiene

I don't have CPS installed on this computer or else I'd look. But, I thought I remembered a screen in the ASTRO personality where you could define alerts for Low or Marginal RSSI.
Perhaps this is what you're refering to.

Caffiene

HVA,
Are you using CPS or RSS? In CPS, I believe it's under the Display Options tab.
I'll double check when I get to the computer with CPS.
-Caff

Caffiene

Good luck on the project. I didn't think it would work until I saw USGOVTECH's post about modifing the radio to pass DC. I guess that hard part would be getting the transmitter to give the proper frequency shift to corresponding DC level from the receiver. Then it would have to be able to keep up wi...

Caffiene

So, to verify, Announcement Talkgroups are "one way", from dispatcher to group members, right?

Caffiene

firemedic4 wrote:i just got my data slicer from Mfj enterprises. it was back ordered for a few weeks but well worth it. bob

http://www.mfjenterprises.com

Isn't that a 2 level slicer? Also, from the picture, it is 25 pin serial. Can you connect a 25-9 pin adapter to it with no problems?
-Caff

Caffiene

We had one of Will's extender modules at Dayton. It was connected between a UHF maxtrac and a VHF maxtrac in a X-band configuration. It would mass MDC1200 like a charm, but wouldn't pass Astro properly. -Bob Of course it won't pass ASTRO! MDC1200 is audio tones Frequency Modulated (hence "FM&q...

Caffiene

All, I've got an XTS-3000 with the partial keypad (6 buttons). The top 3 buttons have developed a problem where when they are pressed, the radio does not "see" the keypress. Have others had this problem? Is it with the flexi connector going from the keypad into the radio, or is it generall...

Caffiene

I'm one of the skeptics. My bets are on that it won't work. The 4-level FSK being the reason. It potentially "could" work by using an ASTRO radio to turn the ASTRO data back to audio, then take that audio and send it out on the transmit radio. It could work but the problem would be very di...

Caffiene

So for this to be effective, the radio would have to be in scan and this annoucement group would have to be in the scan list, right?
-Caff

Caffiene

What's the purpose for an Announcement talkgroup?
-Caff

Caffiene

I thought CQPSK was going to be used for the second phase of P-25. I've been out of the P-25 development loop for a while, but I thought it was going to give 1.25 KHz deviation with 6.25 KHz channel spacing.
Am I wrong here?
-Caff

Caffiene

I thought CQPSK was going to be used for the second phase of P-25. I've been out of the P-25 development loop for a while, but I thought it was going to give 1.25 KHz deviation with 6.25 KHz channel spacing.
Am I wrong here?
-Caff

Caffiene

Wow..that's weird. "Wide" is wide (5.0 KHz) analog. "Narrow, " of course, is 2.5 KHz analog. C4FM is, well C4FM (4 level FSK). Is it possible that when you were not hearing anything, the transmit radio was actually in analog (either wide or narrow) and the receiving radio was in ...

Caffiene

You did say everything is the same, but you might want to double check the NAC and talkgroups are the same.
BTW, do you get the receive LED on the one where you don't hear anything?
IIRC, the radios have to be with 500 Hz of the desired RF frequency in order to work properly.
-Caff

Caffiene

OK, I'll bite. What's an IR? Intermediate Repeater?
-Caff

Caffiene

I will say, that having used both, CPS is easier to use, but you have to have a background in RSS to appreciate CPS. I was able to program up a new system with CPS in a little over an hour with CPS where it would have easily taken me 2+ hours navigating through F2-F4-F9-F4, no wait, I wanted F3... -...

Caffiene

FWIW, the problem with incorrect channel text was resolved. I had an error in the Zone/Channel assignment. The radio was always staying on one talkgroup hence the Channel ID text was not changing. As far as the Unit ID appearing in the display, I still have that problem and still haven't found out w...

Caffiene

I hope this post won't get too long-winded, but here goes. I have some trunking questions and they mostly have to do with ASTRO trunking. That's why I'm putting them here rather than in the general forum. Let's start with an example system in Example City. Let's say Example City has a Smartzone syst...

Caffiene

I just wanted to add my email address:
caffiene9876@hotmail.com

The radio model is H09UCF9PW7BN
which is H38 Smartzone with display and partial (6 button) keypad.
TIA,
Caff

Caffiene

Remember, I had the same problem with CPS 1.02 on an XTS-3000. I posted the problem here in the forum and the suggestion was to delete change the signalling then delete the personallity. It did not work. A person here in the forum offered to fix my codeplug by using a hex editor. I emailed him my co...

Caffiene

Can anyone please send me a virgin codeplug for an 800 MHz XTS-3000 with H38 Smartzone for use with RSS 8.0? I have always been using CPS instead RSS and if I use RSS to read the codeplug, RSS says the codeplug is too new. MY XTS isn't working properly on a conventional Smartnet system and I'm not s...

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In addition to caller ID not working, I can't get the radio to display the channel text of another channel while in scan. In other words, if the radio is in scan, and if the radio is switched to channel 2 and channel 1 becomes active, the information for channel 2 is still shown in the display. I he...

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All, I know in the past that I have enabled an option that I remember as "Caller ID" in the RSS. I did this on an older XTS-3000 (512 K firmware I beleive), as well as a MTX-2000. When this option was enabled, I was able to see the radio ID of the person initiating the PTT. It worked fine ...

Caffiene

All I can say is, "Wow!"

Caffiene

You won't find that personality because it is not there anymore. You need to create a new personality and new zones that the modat is currently programmed to revert to. Once you create those new personalities, you can change all the stuff in red. OK. I've created a new personality on a bogus freque...

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Yes, you're right. It is in red but I can't find the personality that has it enabled. I only have 1 conventional personality. If I didable MODAT in the personality, I get the 'invalid' error. If I go to the MODAT tab, the only options are to select which channel is the emergeny revert channel. I can...

Caffiene

OK, I have two questions. But before I ask them, I need to give a little background info. I bought a used XTS-3000. I used RSS versions 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 and got "Codeplug too new for this application" error. So then I tried CPS. CPS told me there were errors with the codeplug, but did I wa...

Caffiene

I read that you could use an FM radio to "simulate" AM by tuning the FM radio 5 KHz lower or 5 KHz higher than the AM station. As the deviation of the FM radio passes into the receive passband of the AM radio, it is seen as an "amplitiude" modulated signal. I've been meaning to t...

Caffiene

Wait a second. It shouldn't work. The ASTRO signal is a 4 level FSK signal. How could a 4-Level FSK signal that is detected by a FM receiver and then re-transmitted as FM (not FSK) be decoded by a receiver looking for FSK?. I don't see how it could work. I am using the words "shouldn't" an...

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