Batboard

N4DES

What bands are in the radio and what was programmed into it?
It gives the impression that it was inhibited, did you try to read the radio with CPS while it was turned on even though the display was off?

N4DES

We made a lot of noise to /\/\ when the flashcode arrived and it was across the whole VHF and UHF spectrum. They fixed it pretty quickly with a firmware update. I didn’t realize the radio was smart enough to let me do wide band on ham frequencies. I just added a few ham frequencies and it let me do ...

N4DES

res6cue wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 07, 2022 7:57 am
APX portables already have a torque-adding washer underneath the volume knob. No need to make any hacky mods, simply buy a new one and replace the worn out one. 3275377H01 (red) is the standard torque adder, 3275377H02 (blue) is the high torque adder.

Thank you!

N4DES

I like to find a way to tighten my dated APX7K's volume knob. Too many times when carrying it I would brush up against it and either turn it all the way up or down. I remember in the past that some would put a small O ring on a 5K but haven't researched if physically you can do that on a 7K. Anyone???

N4DES

Unbelievable... but he isn't the first that I have seen written about doing the same thing.

N4DES

Personally, I didn't see much of an audio improvement moving from a 7/8 XTL to a V-7/8 APX7500. But keep in mind that there were big Vocoder improvements make in Ver 12 and 17 in the XTS/XTL FW, so depending on your current version YMMV. Love the dual band of the APX with being able to switch from C...

N4DES

If I had to take a stab at it, when they made your child key they used the APX configuration and not the XTS/XTL in the ASK software. When you make a child key with the APX not all of the permissions are granted to the X series, and I believe cloning is one of them. Have them make you a key using th...

N4DES

Can someone tell me definitively whether or not an APX radio that DOES NOT have the "Q507 - 12.5 kHz FCC Mandate" will allow a conventional channel to be programmed with 25 kHz spacing throughout its entire operating frequency range? Thank you for your time! Yes, throughout the entire U a...

N4DES

I'm pretty sure the core doesn't store it to that much detail, but it is put across the ATIA and Genesis does log it and make it available if you are running that application. I use that piece of data when researching rogue users and duplicated ID's that go places it shouldn't be.

Mark

N4DES

Check your Encryption wide settings and see if it is selected to notify you when a clear call is received.

N4DES

What you don't want to do is leave new boxed Impres batteries in the box on the shelf for a long period of time (~ 1 year).
I had a user do this instead of doing a rotation and lost about 20 batteries that wouldn't correctly charge when he attempted to put them in service.

N4DES

The numbering scheme doesn't matter at all, at least it didn't when I migrated from a 3.0 SmartX to a P25 using totally different EID's. The SmartX used sub 65K and the P25 users I have populated to date have been in the 5 Million, 7 Million, 8 Million, and 9 Million ranges and all were/are interope...

N4DES

Well now Moto has its own version, but requires a log-on.
https://flashcode.radiocentral.motorolasolutions.com/

N4DES

Allen is correct that the trunking Visar will not do conventional.
I have a Type II Visar that I used from time to time prior to rebanding and it does not do conventional.

N4DES

Sounds like you got it.... glad I was able to be of some assistance.

73

N4DES

Can be a few reasons:

Conventional personality set for Analog TX with Mixed-Mode RX.
You didn't set the TX frequency correct.
Possibly is it a split NAC and your TX NAC isn't correct?

Can you post some screen shots of your Personality and Zone Channel assignment?

Mark

N4DES

Did you look at the PMAS4001A antenna that is UHF/700/800? It is a tad over 7" and not that bad vs the 8" APX 8K antenna.
I don't know what the performance on VHF would be, but if you are only listening it might be worth the $30.00 gamble.

N4DES

What's the pricing on a 1000 look like for comparison? If it's not that different than the 900 then I'm very confused as to why the two radios exist separately. The pricing is very close, but the APX1000, with the exception of the 900 MHz model, is a single knob radio. I have been deploying the 100...

N4DES

The auto-tune is setting the TX freq + 10Hz and the radios work perfectly on our other systems that don't utilize such tight tolerances. We are wondering as well if it might be "B" as you noted below as these were originally NEXTEL RB radios that were initially used on our 3600 system and ...

N4DES

TX fidelity.

N4DES

Greetings Motorola experts and Happy Thanksgiving. Me and my team are in the process of migrating our County to P25 and in the process we are having some issues with a relative small lot (approx 20) of XTS2500's that are failing the Fidelity test when we do auto alignments and they are just not happ...

N4DES

I messed around with the factory ones as well and found that the same unit operated flawlessly on an XTS5K but was terrible on a 2.5K. The 2.5 had distorted crackling RX audio that got worse when the earpiece was on the opposite side of the radio. The 5K didn't have any of these issues. I tried a nu...

N4DES

We just did a bunch of internal testing with the XE500 and not very impressed with the performance.
The ruggedized Commander outperformed it in transmit audio quality, even in a high noise environment, without all the bells and whistles.

M

N4DES

Yes it sat in a space that had AC.

N4DES

I ran it through a complete impres cycle last night and it came up to 2600 mah vs. the 2900 that is noted on the battery label. Not totally unusable, but definitely not the original 100% rating that it is supposed to be. Clearly a lesson to be learned here on long term impres battery storage. Shame ...

N4DES

I had it sit overnight and it finally came around.

Even though this battery was unused it now shows 35 charges and somewhat below the original rating of 2900 mah, but I'm running it through a full impes cycle to see if it comes back up.

N4DES

I found a brand new 2012 APX battery in my technology closet and trying to bring it to life but the impress charger just doesn't seem to be liking it. Anyone have a decent method to get an initial charge on it? I can't seem to get past the intermittent yellow that eventually turns into a flashing re...

N4DES

The internal speaker has its limitations, especially in an automobile environment, and audio quality is better using the external one. In an office environment the front facing speaker is adequate.

Depending on the application you might want to think about it.

N4DES

Whoops.... sorry I was pertaining to the XTS portables. I just noticed the subject line, my bad. What's an "A model" XTL2500? Is it an early version of the M5 head? I understand that the XTL5000, 2500, 1500 bodies are all identical apart from the flash code. Can you still officially update...

N4DES

Would need to know the FW version as well. In the later CPS versions you could check rebanding enabled, but if the FW didn't support it then the radio would not hear correctly.

N4DES

And since Motorola ceased the ability to order flash upgrades for the 5000's and A model 2500's, there is no legal way for them to update the flashcode to even do P25 FDMA trunking and conventional P25, so off to surplus they go!

N4DES

went ahead and updated a few of my units. All updated with no issues. Display backlight is pretty cool! Updated both my 7000 and 6000XE (AN). Not to be a party pooper but the "Channel Color Backlight" feature is a waste of a possibly good feature as you have to disable all other notificat...

N4DES

anybody know what the "Channel Color Backlight" is? What new features are introduced with the FPP update? Abstract: Channel Color Backlight System Platforms Affected: All Special Configurations: N/A This is a Radio Wide feature which provides the ability to configure the top display backl...

N4DES

sjxts3000 wrote:Note the elimination of the Q53 FPP dongle. Only password protection needed now.

Confirmed that this is correct. The dongles are now history from the side of me and my staff's APX 7K's.

N4DES

Are the personalities set to clear only TX? That is the default.

N4DES

With the latest Motorola FW, refresh dongle with available flashes, and OEM programming cable (preferably serial).

N4DES

I would agree. If there is a contrast issue I would say that there is a display issue.
Everyone that I have used has had an outstanding crispness to it.

N4DES

The original target radio was a APX7K and rested on a 6K and a 1K with repeated results as to what I posted + 1 or 2 digits, but close enough in my book for an field approximation.

N4DES

If the radio is programmed for SmartNet (not SmartZone) the bars in the display won't show. If you have a button set to query the site and always wondered what the RSSI level means in dbm, below is what I calculated a while back: dbm RSSI -130 6 -125 16 -120 26 -115 36 -110 46 -105 56 -100 66 -95 76...

N4DES

I would tend to agree staying with what the users are familiar with and if the system you are on is requiring TDMA the XTL series will not do that either.

N4DES

It ended being a computer capability issue. I moved to an older laptop and it saw the original dongle in CPS and the radios updated just fine.

N4DES

OK I have access to some older PC's (XP Toughbooks) so I'll see if I can get it to see in on one of these. This is not a newer PC (refurb Tiger Direct desktop) that works all the way down to MTS, at least reading & writing via CPS, so I was confused as to why it doesn't see the ibutton. I never ...

N4DES

It has been a while since I have done a FW update on the subject radios and I'm having an issue with the CPS seeing the refresh dongle. I can read/write to the radios with no issues (32 bit Win7 with multiple serial ports) via a SmartRib but when I go to read the USB refresh dongle that is plugged i...

N4DES

OK I got it....please disregard. For future reference and according to Parts ID it is...

1. Item Number. TKN8209C CABLE KEYLOAD MX

N4DES

I have one but need to purchase another one and the one I have doesn't have a # on it. Anyone have the part # for it?

N4DES

Getting the radio is the easy part, but you really need to think about the required programming, especially with an XTS3000 that requires a RIB and typically a radio with a serial port. Do you have someone that can program and has the required CPS and hardware? Combined those items alone will exceed...

N4DES

What were you doing with the radio at the time that the 01/90 showed up? I have had two radios previously that this occurred during a FW bump and all I did was to totally reboot everything, including the computers, and reload the FW into it using a valid flashkey. I walked away from them for the aft...

N4DES

I agree that it got too "preachy" and even banned users for spelling errors and grammar issues, but I never posted so I didn't have that problem. I concur there was a lot of good info on it, but their posting of older and unsupported programming software I'm sure ruffled /\/\otorola's feat...

N4DES

If I remember correctly it also depends on which band is the "primary" as to whether the RF would be routed to the public safety style speaker mic. You can only find this out by reading the radio's cp to see how it is configured. Motorola doesn't support VHF going up the cord but in the pa...

N4DES

If you have IRK enabled it shouldn't drop the keys. I have transferred keyloaded secure boards between XTL mobiles that had IRK enabled (not with the carrier) and didn't lose any.

Clone the keys? You can't pull an algo out of a radio once programmed if that is what you meant.

Search found 1032 matches