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Alan

We have a 100 watt MTR2000 that has been keyed on at 60 watts for the last 6 years.
It is a taxi data TX. It is still pumping out the 60 watts today (touch wood).

Alan

Good advice on renaming the unused call types to "UNUSED". I have done that as well. It seems to reduce confusion. I noticed this info in the last firmware release of the HT series portable firmware. Professional Series Portable Firmware R05.09.11 Customer Release Notes III. Known issues I...

Alan

Yes we have had some of these too. Changes as the case is squeezed.

Alan

They were a great remotes. About 5 watts of RX audio. You could drive extra speakers. Easy to interface extra mics. There is nothing like it out there today.

Alan

No offence to N8wel, but I am having a real hard time wraping my head around a T1600 being called a Mini CentraCom.
It's like calling a Lada a mini Cadilac

Alan

Also a stand alone site only using Intellirepeaters (without a local controller) does not have any unit validation. All units are valid on the system. In a SmartZone system the unit validation process is done by at the master site. If the site link is lost and the site goes to site trunking, all ID'...

Alan

We are having the same problems on vhf units

You can't be. Motorola says that we are the only ones having problems. There are no other reports of anyone else having issues with Minitor V pagers.

Alan

Anyone know if this SRN also applies to the JT1000?
The JT1000 is not specifically mentioned.

Alan

Same here on VHF (155 mHz). Pagers are missing pages in known good signal areas.

Alan

Look at the temperature spec on the repeater. There will be no issue at all with it operation down to 0. The unit will be frequency stable well below that. The main reason for the heater is to drive out moisture for long term reliability, not for short term operation. Look at the picture in this lin...

Alan

Wavetar:

I am interested in what model of mic you used. Also a quick escrition of the way your circuit is wired.

Thanks

Alan

Unless you have a few weeks of back up battery power, I would skip the 12 volt heater. It will just reduce your battery run time. I have bought small 110 volt heaters from the electical supply house. It looked like a large heatsink. I think they were available in 100 or 200 watt models. I can dig up...

Alan

The actual cells are standard cells. Nothing special here. All of the "features" and advantages are achieved by using an Impres charger with the Impres battery. While you can charge the battery in a standard rapid rate charger that supports the battery chemistry, if you do it too offten it...

Alan

Yes. We have about 1500 in service in mixed police/fire/ambulance. They have reduced our battery related issues to near zero. When the battery falls below theshold the user is aware of it. In volunteer fire service it has double the service life of the batteries due to the long time the batteries si...

Alan

On the CDM series the earpiece audio IS varried by the volume control.

Alan

Motorola batteries have an 18-month warranty. Send them in for free replacements.

Alan

None of the 40+ units that we have put into service have that faulty. I say it is a warranty issue.

Alan

Look at the Zetron 1512 Sentridial or 1514 DevicePage
Both will dial a number, or connect to a spare DID trunk. They have 8 inputs (the 1512 also has 4 analoge inputs). You can page a dispalay pager with both. You can do voice messages with the 1512,
http://www.zetron.com

Alan

These things are all under warranty. Send them back.

Alan

We order a 5105385Y19.
It comes with the flex circuit attached. The actual LCD module has 5105385Y34 stamped on it, but that is a sub assembly.
Loks like you need to re-order.

Alan

We have installed thousands of Motorola radios. Ever since the Maxtrac first came out they have used the in-line blade type fuse holder. There was a change to it about 7 years ago.
I have NEVER seen a faulty one.

What did he "upgrade the fues holder to? What does it look like?

Alan

Did you get what you wanted? or should I find mine and scan it for you?

Alan

We have rejected Motorolas fix for this problem as a proper solution. It is a bandaid at best.

After the fix is applied, you will notice it takes up to 2 seconds of tone B to decode. With a standard 1 second tone A and 3 second tone B, the pager gives a very short alert tone.

Alan

There is an 8 channel limitation on the Spectra Consolette when using tone remote. The TTRC board is only capable of decoding up the 8 channel function tones.
This is a limitation that I am surprised that they have never addressed.

Alan

Has anybody had any problems with these yet?

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=50108

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Alan

I just love it when a person asks for help for a problem, and then posts something like "It's OK, I fixed it".

What did you do? What fixed the problem? We all like to gain from others experience.

Alan

I am aware of the RSS policy on the board and do not want in any way to violate that policy, but, I am looking for a replacement copy of the Bravo Alpha software. Motorola says no longer available and not supported. Our copy is on floppy and we are unable to read the floppy. We have tried several co...

Alan

What a bunch of whining and complaining.
No one has actual facts to post so just post a bunch of speculation.
Our radio's have crossed the border for years without issue. We still have a 5-day turn around. Why not wait to see if maybe things might even improve in some ways.

Alan

This is a quote from the Andrew catalogue. "All HELIAX coaxial cables are jacketed for direct burial or for corrosive environmental conditions. Standard jacketing material is weather-resistant polyethylene suitable for use in extreme climates." Go to http://www.andrew.com/catalog38/default...

Alan

Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but it is for a new Motorola installation. I have used the Rohn 25G towers before. Now that Rohn has gone belly up, I see that Valmont, Radian and Trylon all make equivelent type towers. I am interested in the Valmont as I can order from Motorola (makes shipping eas...

Alan

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=46755

Alan

i did some checkin and i can get lmr400 for $140 and heliax for $200 100' l but the loss between the two different feedlines are very close around 2.7bd The Time Microwave LMR400 is 2.7 dB/100 ft at 450 MHz. The 1/2" LDF4-50 is 1.45 dB/100. http://www.andrew.com/catalog38/default.aspx Go to pa...

Alan

Go with the LMR400 for sure. Also use the "EZ-400" connectors. They are very reliable and have captive pins, so no assembly problems. You will need a crimp tool with a .429 die.

Alan

could use some input on firmware upgrades regarding the PRO "waris" series....

A little more detail would help. I assume that you have searched the previous posts, so you have most of the information. What additional "input" are you looking for?

Alan

Almost everyday. Every radio in for service gets it.

Alan

Current is R05.08.06.
R05.08.09 was released, but was recalled shortly after.

Alan

Maybe one of you with dealer accounts can order it for $20 and show us what it is

Most parts are 20% margin. This is far from an excessive margin. Most suplliers work on a 40% margin. Motorola's mark up between dealer and retail is generally low.

Alan

Yes on the HT1550. There is a service bulliten out on it.
It should be warranty.

Alan

Run a diagnostic printer (or caprure with a terminal program) to see what the errors are when the OOPS ocurrs.

Alan

Known issue. Motorola has a fix for it. It involes adjusting a window time (special software).
Call Motorola. Don't let them tell you that no one else is complaining.

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... highlight=

Alan

Check out this thread

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... ight=crimp

Alan

I don't think that this is much help, but here are 2 service bullitens Land Mobile Product Sector PSB - 799A(supersedes PSB799) 1301 East Algonquin Road APC - 218, 225, 448, 482, 509, 680, 743 Schaumburg, IL 60196 Date - September, 1997 (847)576-0180 Expires - N/A SUBJECT: EEPROM MEMORY RETENTION PR...

Alan

Has anyone installed the RLN5899 CDM1550 dual head kit? It comes with everything to convert a CDM1550 to dual head operation. I have one on order, but havn't seen it yet. I know that Quick Mount made one, but also heard about all sorts of issues with it. I wonder if the Motorola is a relabeled Quick...

Alan

but he'd still need to build an interface to go from balanced to unbalanced audio for rx & tx

The BIM is a transformer input, so you really don't need to convert the radio to balanced output .

Alan

and also as a conversation maker, why in the world would motorola make the ZONE/CHAN selector a non-option on any model?

The lord (oh, I mean Motorola) works in mysterious ways.

Alan

I am looking at installing an e-mail gateway to allow our paging subs to send e-mail to their pagers. We run a GL3000 Glenayre terminal. I expect that the device will be an e-mail server with a TNPP link to our terminal. I think that there are several out there (Hark etc), but I am starting from scr...

Alan

A standard siren speaker is 11 ohms. For a siren rated at 200 watts it uses 2 speakers in parrallel (5.5 ohms). We use 2 x 10 ohm resistors with a switch to turn off 1 resistor (100 watt or 200 watt mode). We have a small speaker in the test box with a volume control and a seriers resistor to knock ...

Alan

What do you mean by the " older POCSAG capcode list"?

Alan

Is it still under warranty?

Can't you just send it in with some line about "unit locks up" or "misses calls" or something like that.

They generally do a firmware upgrade when they go to depot.

Alan

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