XTS3000 III problem... PLEASE HELP!!

CBP_LB · Post by **CBP_LB** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:15 am

my XTS 3000 keeps turning off then back on just by changing the channel... or moving between zones.

any ideas?

Bruce1807 · Post by **Bruce1807** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:32 am

Check the battery contacts

tvsjr · Post by **tvsjr** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:38 am

Maybe a battery - are you using a factory batt?

Has the radio been reprogrammed lately? I've seen corrupt codeplugs cause this behavior.

CBP_LB · Post by **CBP_LB** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:11 am

100% positive that its not the battery or battery contacts.... it has to be with the codeplug....

we took the codeplug from a radio simular, deleted all the personalities and zones, and started from scrath.

i think that has something todo with it...

fire_master_21 · Post by **fire_master_21** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:45 am

do you have a copy of the codeplug that was in it before you dumped this one in?

Dale Earnhardt · Post by **Dale Earnhardt** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:15 am

I think it know whats wrong.... I bet there was some smartzone being programmed in.. and somewhere in there was programmed wrong and it just keeps resetting.. I had that happen once.

N4KVE · Post by **N4KVE** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:37 pm

I had the same problem with a UHF XTS 3K that had 6 freq's in it. It was a NICK radio so I sent it back to him. He couldn't figure it out so he sent me a new radio. He even cloned it from the bad radio. 3 years later, still fine. My radio had no trunking systems. Just 6 or 7 ham freqs. It only happened while changing freqs with scan on. Good luck. GARY

CBP_LB · Post by **CBP_LB** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:54 am

robert you may be right because joel was trying to get the pomona system to work.... (its his clodeplug) that we just removed all of his stuff and started from scratch, so i thought but all the options in diff. parts of the radio, are still on, so i just need a small clean codeplug to put my freqs into...

Hightower · Post by **Hightower** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:06 am

Sounds like the RF deck has gone bad. Replace it.

VCO might be failing.

CBP_LB · Post by **CBP_LB** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:25 am

Hightower wrote:Sounds like the RF deck has gone bad. Replace it.

VCO might be failing.

HOW MUCH DOES THAT RUN?

Post by **escomm** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:19 am

CBP_LB wrote:
Hightower wrote:Sounds like the RF deck has gone bad. Replace it.

VCO might be failing.
HOW MUCH DOES THAT RUN?

New? More money than you want to know.

Used? I saw a couple on ebay from a batboards user a week or two ago for a very reasonable price ($150-200 IIRC).

CBP_LB · Post by **CBP_LB** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:19 pm

ok another thing that i noticed wrong is during power up (self test) the green LED light does not remain on during the test, it just flashes and turnes off...

hope this helps....

CBP_LB · Post by **CBP_LB** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:23 pm

tvsjr wrote: Has the radio been reprogrammed lately? I've seen corrupt codeplugs cause this behavior.

thats what i was told by several people... is there anyway to un-corrupt it?

tvsjr · Post by **tvsjr** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:50 pm

Hightower wrote:Sounds like the RF deck has gone bad. Replace it.

VCO might be failing.

That should put the radio into FAIL 001, not cause a reset.

tvsjr · Post by **tvsjr** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:52 pm

CBP_LB wrote:
tvsjr wrote: Has the radio been reprogrammed lately? I've seen corrupt codeplugs cause this behavior.
thats what i was told by several people... is there anyway to un-corrupt it?

Read your plug and nuke everything. Every personality, every scan list, every signalling system, etc. Rebuild from scratch. That's always done it for me.

If it's worse than that, you can blast an s-record into it (save the alignment values and reenter them afterward) and likely fix the problem.

jmr061 · Post by **jmr061** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:27 pm

I agree, try a different s-rec and force that in and just see what happens. Save your current s-rec and tuning values as well just in case. See what happens.

Jason

DES-AJ · Post by **DES-AJ** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:33 pm

CBP_LB wrote:ok another thing that i noticed wrong is during power up (self test) the green LED light does not remain on during the test, it just flashes and turnes off...

hope this helps....

Yeah thats an Astro phenomenon... I know of a 3000 that if you have the radio codeplug filled right up it only flashes for a split second but if it has about 4+ channels spare it holds the light on for a few seconds during bootup and test.