Spectra secure board?

dxon2m · Post by **dxon2m** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:33 pm

Hello all,

I got a remote mount low power Spectra off ebay. I want to know if the unit has secure board equipped. Can anyone tell me how to find out?

Thanks

RadioSouth · Post by **RadioSouth** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:57 pm

Pop the covers, your looking for an added on L shaped board with a button battery. If it's in there see if it has a hybrid or two plugged in, numbers on the boards can be broken down on the encryption primer section on the main BatLabs site.

Rick Rock · Post by **Rick Rock** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:14 pm

Just the top cover, and it'll be right in the front towards the left as you're looking in with the radio front facing you.

dxon2m · Post by **dxon2m** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:54 pm

I opened it but didn't see any L-shaped board. I see there is a 24 pin connector that doesn't have anything connected, is this supposedly where the secure board goes in?

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:19 pm

Very simply, yes. Your radio may be secure capable, but not secure equiped then.

Zap · Post by **Zap** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:37 pm

The black connector is what the L-shaped HLN-6000B dual hybrid carrier motherboard plugs into.
It fills the entire compartment, so you cannot also install the DTMF decoder board.

Here's a pic on ebay: Item number: 9713604777 (not my auction).

About the same price as I paid.

It took a fair bit of waiting when I was looking for one.
They come, they go, here's five.

You will have to buy secure modules of your flavour.
It holds upto two (same or different) algorithym modules, two keys per module.
DES and DVP are currently much easier to find than DES-XL.

Then you must find a keyloader to match your modules.

And a keyloader cable, which I am hoping someone will offer to sell to me because I can't find one !!

You cannot make one from a mic cable.

Goodluck.

poser · Post by **poser** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:07 pm

What does the hybrid carrier do, make a non secure Spectra into secure capable? Also, where does the KVL plug into? Thanks

Zap · Post by **Zap** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:35 am

poser wrote:What does the hybrid carrier do, make a non secure Spectra into secure capable? Also, where does the KVL plug into? Thanks

Simplistically, the carrier (not the hybrid itself) allows for battery backup for key retention during power-off, and is a controller interface between the secure module and the spectra.

Once the main board with hybrid are installed, the secure hardware has to be enabled in the rss, and a key loaded via the KVL.

If the spectra does not have the secure/clear button on the front (circle with a backslash through it), the menus for control head allow you to choose which button to assign that function.
Or you could create a mode where secure is strapped, including which key is used.
Pressing and breifly holding the secure button brings up the words "CODE 1" or "CODE 2" on the spectra display and a flashing arrow pointing to the secure button. This allows field selection of key 1 or 2 via Mode selector for single hybrid.
Press "Home" to exit.
The KVL using a cable and adaptor assembly (Hi-rose) plug into the mic jack in the front of the spectra.

Congradulations, you are now secure.

poser · Post by **poser** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:46 am

So does the radio need to be an X model for secure or will every spectra accept it? Thank you!