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Astro Saber

Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:47 pm
by wb4bsd
Okay, i am beating my head against a wall here.

History: Got a load of old astro sabers in at work. programming them and key loading them. First batch i did didnt key load easily and then all of a sudden they key loaded fine. Now i am trying to key load the rest of them and they wont load.

Question:
Is there a trick of some sort to get these things to key load?

Flash: 000001-002000-5
host and dsp are older. dsp is 5.? so they arent IMBE.

the kvl being used is a kvl 3000+ in ASN mode.

Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:33 pm
by tvsjr
There's no trick... mine load quite easily. However, I don't have an ubersexy KVL3000+ to use!

Stupid question time - you have verified the existence of UCMs in the radios, yes?

Secure hardware equipped is enabled and the radio recognizes the UCM according to the self-test?

The UCMs have analog algorithms (not DES-OFB only, for instance)?

I've had issues keyloading before... then I noticed the radio didn't have a UCM installed. D'oh. :oops:

Saber loading

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:53 am
by 1 Adam 12
Also make sure in the encryption options for the radio that "CKR Key management" is disabled.

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:55 am
by wb4bsd
they do have modules installed. and ckr is deselected.

the first run i programmed wouldnt take a key until about 3 or more trys and then all of a sudden they all took the first time. I dont know that i really did anything to make it take, its like it just decided to stop jerking around and take the key.

As stated, i am in ASN mode vice Astro 25 mode so i dont know. Maybe i just need to keep trying.

These are model 1 AS's.

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:05 pm
by tvsjr
Hmm, maybe a bad keyload cable or connector on the KVL?

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:24 pm
by wb4bsd
tried it just now.. it magically worked. oh well. full moon i guess.