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willbird287

Yes the connector is indeed red. It matches the same type of construction I've seen on other "non branded" knock off antennas perfectly. Not only is the soldering sub par, but the injection molding is also not as good. Sometimes if you simply bend them enough the plastic slides right off! ...

willbird287

Speaking of counterfeit...I have full length UHF and 800 and stubby 8/900. I was victim of a scam deal and am stuck with them as I would never sell them - too risky. I guess if people want them for kicks I can send them for "the price of shipping"?

--Will

willbird287

All set Tom, the mic ships tomorrow morning!

--Will

willbird287

Yeah well.... personally I feel the problem is more with the volume knob on the 6/7K. You can actually turn the radio all the way down to OFF just by brushing up against something! I'd much rather be on the wrong channel than turned completely off. I always use the "soft power off" featur...

willbird287

Any word on the pricing of the new O heads as of yet? When I called for at least a part number for the new heads, they had no clue, "are you sure you don't mean the O5 head? I know there is an O5, O9 and O3 available". I had to reference their own literature which they then looked up and ...

willbird287

Getting back on topic here... Just got word that the new O2 and O7 control heads won't be available until about June this year. I'm not sure why the O2 will require until 2013 to be remote capable, but I would guess there are redesigns or testing that needs to be down regarding the ruggedness of the...

willbird287

mikegilbert wrote:I can definitely imagine those O2 heads in plenty of Sheriff/Police marine units. Wonder if they'll be remote mountable though.

Straight from the updated control head comparison PDF:
" *Remote mount for O2 will not be available until 2013 "

--Will

willbird287

What I think Ko is referring to is a bug with some older RAM processors and newer firmware. Sometimes the radio's alert/keypad tones would "stutter" sounding like anywhere from 2 to 5 key presses in rapid succession (almost like an echo), but the radio otherwise functions normally. Usually...

willbird287

you still have to have the correct ASK to disable ASK. The OP sent the radio to someone who ASK'ed it. Yea I understand this, hence why I said the customer would have to make more changes to undo the ASK write protect. Of course - if you didn't already load R17 firmware then the customer (or their ...

willbird287

Hey Ko, The latest R17 release mentions something that might be useful. Of course - if you didn't already load R17 firmware then the customer (or their programmer) would just be making more changes... Abstract: Write Protection can now be disabled System Platforms Affected: Any Special Configuration...

willbird287

So its the same form factor as the 6000? It doesn't look much smaller if at all, but hard to tell in those photos. I don't see a point of a "dumbed down" version - since these are flashport radios you pay for the features you need. Unless the Li is a non flashport strictly analog only vers...

willbird287

This was posted in another discussion board and I didn't see it till now.

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=98555

--Will

willbird287

Saw this blog post with what's supposedly the "APX 6000Li" a "Light"? version of the APX6000? Anyone know anything about this or heard anything? Looks interesting to say the least, since the APX6000 is already significantly smaller than the APX7000. Maybe its a SP radio? http://w...

willbird287

Got what I needed, thanks!
--Will

willbird287

Is anyone still doing them? None of the MSS around here touch this stuff anymore and I have a few that are ancient and need to be updated in order to accept 2.5khz channel spacing. I'll pay for shipping if you're not local. PM me if you can help out!

--Will

willbird287

Didn't want to start a new thread with the same thing going on, but as requested, here's a few photos showing the completed blue XTS5000 as well as the work in progress red XTS2500 coming back to life from painted shell to complete housing assembly. Photos were taken with my iPhone so they're not th...

willbird287

I'm assuming you've already opened it up and cleaned and checked connectors? I had a radio once that had constant carrier and transmit power but intermittent voice. Opened it up and found a super fine powder worked its way inside. Cleaned it all up and it worked great.

--Will

willbird287

It sounds like the RF board is cycling on off on off - sounds just like repetitive squelch crashes to me. (Compare the "Tx Noise" to the crash at the end of the MDC burst)

That said I don't know what could be causing it...try replacing the RF board with a spare?

--Will

willbird287

Out of the few RAM XTS5000's I've seen, I have seen issues when they are loaded with R15. Weird issues occur with audio and tones "stuttering". It usually can be (temporarily) fixed by power cycling the radio, but will occur again at a random time after power up. This goes along with what ...

willbird287

Was just going to post up a similar thread since the existence of my "rare canadian blue XTS5000" was leaked out to the world. Since it was also requested I post the process, I've been waiting for a second housing to cure though so it might be another day or two. Orange is an interesting c...

willbird287

There's some discussion in the following two threads (beware of serious OT derailment in one!) that might help you, altho it usually works out to be issues with the station itself. Good luck, keep us posted when you find the problem! http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=44414 http://batboard....

willbird287

It sounds a lot like an issue that's been mentioned here before, always seems to be on VHF Quantars...

Does it sound like this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRfvh0UTFHw

--Will

willbird287

I'm using the direct connection cable specified in the RCH3000 manual (part number is NLA from motorola). Ive built almost all my programming cables for cheaper radios (non ASTRO) so I doubt I built it wrong (not to mention I've had it checked). I'm wondering if there's a trick in programming somewh...

willbird287

I've got a RCH3000 connected direct to a MCS2000 Model 3. Currently, all I get is limited functionality from the RCH3000. The RCH will unmute and display the speaker icon and audio is present from the speakers, but that's it, it will not provide any control or display information. I accidentally cha...

willbird287

I've had some time to use and experiment with an APX7000. A few things stand out in my mind as lacking in the software/firmware, so I'm wondering if anyone here knows or has heard of any plans for future feature additions to the line? My biggest issue that I don't like is the backlight brightness no...

willbird287

I opened up a few radios I had to test it all out. It works. The AN and BN electronics are cross compatible. The difference is only in the physics aspects of the case and chassis.

--Will

willbird287

Yea Rod, It sounds like you have a grasp on it. Basically any setting that is part of the system effects all frequency options. So if you change a setting that's included in the system page, then all frequencies in that system will change as well. The way to do it is having two different systems, bo...

willbird287

I found some information about the chassis having alignment tabs on the BN and not the AN radios, but is there any difference with electronics between the two?

--Will

willbird287

My guess is all the channels that are changing with your edits are using the same conventional system. Are all the channels linked to frequency options within the same system? If so, that's why, any change to a system setting (digital to analog, or a signaling option for example) will change for all...

willbird287

Hey guys,

I'm aware of the main difference between the two models, 4Meg vs. 8Meg of memory allowing for newer firmware with bigger software features, but what else is different? Can the ancillary electronics be swapped between the two? (specifically the keypads, LCD's, flex assemblies, etc)

--Will

willbird287

I'm almost certain that the band limits are stored either in the codeplug or radio firmware. The CPS allows you to program out of band, and clearly it's programming properly into the codeplug and loading into the radio. (I went a step further to test this theory by programming an in band RX frequenc...

willbird287

For people who might be reading this. I've since updated firmware on all radios after the latest release of APX R05 and ASTRO25 R15 and they are playing nice together.

--Will

willbird287

You'll have to link each conventional personality to a scan list before you can toggle scan on/off. If the selected channel (personality) does not have a linked scan list, "SCAN" won't show in the menu and none of the programmed scan buttons will work.
(Guess your truck is fixed..)

--Will

willbird287

I must have missed that the first time I looked through the options. Sure enough, here it is: QA01749 Legacy SW System Key Enable

Thanks,
--Will

willbird287

After some reading, it seems the APX line will support software system key (.KEY) files by unchecking the "ASK Required" checkbox in CPS. In the documentation it is stated this checkbox is located in the Radio Wide panel, under General. But when I go to look, the checkbox is missing, even ...

willbird287

Yea, the software allows it if the correct box is checked, and the radio will accept the OOB frequency, but when you try to go to that channel you get an error on the radio. I'm thinking it's either disallowed in the codeplug somewhere or in the radio's firmware...or somewhere deep in the cps. I'm h...

willbird287

Hey guys, Been playing with an APX7000 lately, and have run into a strange issue. In the past, I've been able to send text messages from XTS2500 to XTS2500 when set to mixed mode on an analog only repeater personality. The radio's are set to a direct data mode and bypass the repeater and transmit da...

willbird287

Anyone else have any experience with out of band?

--Will

willbird287

I've been toying with the idea of buying an APX7000 for a while, but I would like to access a frequency just 1 Mhz outside of the UHF band that it covers. Currently with every radio I use, it's no big deal to push band limits by a bit. Wondering if anyone who currently has an APX and CPS has success...

willbird287

On my 2500's you can program out of band all day with the CPS mod with CPS. But FPP programming retains all it's original band limits. So if you want to program in the ham band with FPP then get a Q split. (unless there's another hack to change FPP band limits like in the HT1550....anyone?) --Will

willbird287

Just updated a month ago...

http://www.ogs.state.ny.us/purchase/pri ... la-Net.pdf

willbird287

I would like to say that a twisted turn of luck and fate has found and solved this issue. After I had taken the radio out of the case to try to reflow the solder on the ribbon connectors (no luck fixing the issue), I put it back in the case with the gasket hanging out a bit on one side. I tried to p...

willbird287

Has anyone tried modifying the CPS to allow you to enter in the out of band frequency? In theory should this work? My reasoning is that since you can read and then program out of band information (that has been entered through the FPP loophole), that the radio itself has no guards against accepting ...

willbird287

As I said earlier...I already figured out how to do it on a conventional channel, and am now looking for information for getting one of the frequencies in a trunked personality out of band as well...

Since the FPP feature wont work on trunked systems, that method wont work.

--Will

willbird287

Hey all, I have an HT1550 I would like to program out of band. I have already figured out how to do this on a conventional channel, but am wondering if I can do this on a trunked system as well... The model I have covers the 403-470 split and the highest frequency I need to enter in the trunked syst...

willbird287

I just finished building and testing a really simple solution for flashing firmware instead of using all kinds of /\/\ adapters...It took almost 3 hours of information gathering and another 2 hours to design/build...but its working like a champ! As far as I know nothing like this has been built befo...

willbird287

What sounds like is happening is either the flex cable is not seated properly, or, more than likely its the solder connections on the white connector that the case flex inserts into. Seen simular problems like this before, and the white connectors' solder joints needed to be reflowed - problem solv...

willbird287

Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade firmware using a RIB less cable? I have a cable with DB9 connector and 4 pins as seen here http://www.wiscomm.com/productimages/htprorblcable.jpg I would imagine i would have to build some kind of adapter or switch? Heres what Im thinking...Since the &qu...

willbird287

Hey all, Ive got a HT1550 which recently started acting up. About a week after being re-programmed it has issues starting up. The LED indicator flashes a green light for maybe 300ms every second. The radio will not function at all during that time. After doing this for what seems like an arbitrary t...

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