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I recently picked up a VHF MCX1000 for practically nothing. From the engraving it appears that this radio used to belong to N&W. I have found that I can read from it, but cannot write to it, with the "commonly available" MCX1000 RSS. The radio is apparently reporting an odd model # to the RSS which the RSS interprets as "Unknown model" and I can't even create a new model and program the radio that way.

Anybody else ever encounter one of these? Is there a workaround to get this radio to accept a codeplug from my RSS without bricking it?

Interestingly, I've never heard of an MCX1000 Railroad radio, People usually misinterpret the MCX100 Railroad Radio.

Have any pictures you can post?

Anyhow, am sure someone else will chime in, but I think that perhaps the MCX1000 RSS can read the MCX100 somehow, but obviously due to being chips that can only be programmed once, you would never be able to write to it.

What's the model number? The MCX100 railroad radio I had was:

MBR33CUA1170AD

Nah this is definitely a MCX1000.

Model # is MBD43URA7K00AK

Yes, there is a railroad MCX1000, in the RSS look at the options page I think its in one of the four pages, and look for Railroad MCX and see if the option is check off or detected. I can look to see if there was another version of software.

w4rez wrote:Nah this is definitely a MCX1000.

Model # is MBD43URA7K00AK

Well get out of town!

I'd actually really like to see a pic of that.

-Josh

Well appearance-wise it looks just like any other MCX1000. I have 2 others here and there's no difference in appearance at all, aside from one of the others being longer due to having the DES board.

w4rez wrote:Well appearance-wise it looks just like any other MCX1000. I have 2 others here and there's no difference in appearance at all, aside from one of the others being longer due to having the DES board.

Hmmm, then why is it a "railroad radio" then, I also think I'm misinterpreting it as conforming to Clean Cab standards, which is what I think of when I hear any 'railroad radio' stuff.

I'd never seen an MCX1000 in that flavor, but have seen the MCX100, even the older Syntor 12 channel clean-cab model at one time, and then you've got got analog spectra and astro spectra railroad units.

-Josh

Well that's why I was asking. All I know is that it's engraved "N&W RWY", has a bunch of rail frequencies programmed into it and grouped into zones geographically, and won't let me do much with it with the "regular" RSS.

They were probably used in the yard trucks/ track maintenance vehicles, would be my guess. With the nice, LOUD audio of the MCX1000, it was probably a good choice! Back when I lived in southern Indiana, CSX used Midlands or something like that in their track repair trucks, IIRC.



-RC-

Yep that's what I love about the MCX1000s and the Maratracs. They're LOUD!