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Andy Brinkley

The entirety of Mike's site is available on web archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211220075 ... nfreq.com/

I reached out to the ham club he was a member of and offered to host his site in his memory but never heard anything.

Andy

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I have serviced hundreds of Alert Monitors but that one is definitely unique.

Looks like it has dual filters sets to allow wider frequency coverage (similar to what was done with the "wideband" MCX100 mobile radios)
The channel select knob looks to be from a HT-220
The metering jack is standard ...

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As much grief as he gave the NC PRN repeater system owners it doesn't surprise me at all.

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I should have marked this thread closed, the issue was the flex cable inside the control head was only connected on one end. The control head was NIB, so apparently this one slipped through Quality Control.

After plugging the cable in the head is now working fine

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Trying to connect a "NIB" HLN6911H Grey face O5 remote mount control head with a XTL5000 and I get a FL 05-93 code, regardless if the control head is connected to the brick or not. The radio had previously worked with an O5 control head, so I doubt it is in the brick. Plugged in a W7 head and could ...

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Either the USB cable (HKN6163C) or the RS-232 Serial Cable (HKN6160B) will work.

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Youtube is your friend.

Search for XTS voice or XTS channel announcement

If these don't answer your questions shoot me a reply or PM.

Andy

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Looked through my catalogs and MOL and could not find such an animal.

Was there ever a control head bracket that would handle 2 W5 control heads?

Looking for a part number or interested in purchasing (5) if anyone has some available.

TIA

Andy

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Dorf411 -

Thanks for the quick reply, the system appears complete with the USB dongles. The agency switched to an 800 MHz system and the MIP5000 was boxed up and put in storage. The gateways have IP addresses assigned and it looks like everything is here to get the system up and running, just got ...

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I purchased a radio lot for the subscriber units and when I started inventorying everything it appears I also have a complete 8 channel 2 position MIP5000. As best I can tell the system is complete from the USB PTT switches / microphones / PC's / CSDM / Routers / MIP-5000 gateways and the control ...

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Lots of misinformation is floating around the internet about programming the Mostars. Conventional Mostars can be programmed using:

The R-1801 suitcase programmer with the appropriate software / programming adapter card / cable.
The Epson HX-20 laptop and the appropriate tapes / cables
with a ...

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That is my best guess on why the radio is not recognized, strange that it worked on my Windows 98 computer for years and then stopped working when I upgraded. Gotta love the big M's - Microsoft and Motorola..

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APCO 25 - the radio transmits and receives fine, just cannot get the computer to recognize the USB cable.

Thanks

Andy

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I don't do many XTL radios, but have one on the bench now and trying to read it using a HKN6163 cable and cannot get the radio to connect at all. I have used the cable before with no problems, tried with Windows XP machine and a Windows 10 machine with no luck, running 20.01.00. Only change I can ...

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Headed to Xenia on Thursday, this will also be my first. Looking forward to seeing some of you...

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Now would be a good time to look at transitioning to some other brand / format, Mother M just sent out a notification of cancellation on the Connect Plus line of radios / infrastructure.

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To the best of my knowledge, the PROM chips used to program these Syntor X radios are no longer available. That was why I mentioned the add on board that will allow programming the radio via a computer for the frequencies you may need. I forget who makes them. But that shouldn't be too hard to ...

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Well you never know who some random person might be! Experts like Andy Brinkley are still lurking out there.

I am truly honored to be called an "Expert" by who I consider the most knowledgeable person on the Syntors!!

As far as swapping control heads / cables / drawer units as they say - "it all ...

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I have a HLN5299B you can have for the cost of shipping.

Story behind it is that somehow my customer managed to fracture HY500 (Inline ceramic chip next to J1). It was quicker for me to swap the entire board so the damaged one is just taking up space in the parts bin. You can swap the HY500 chip ...

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Repeater Builder is your friend:
The RH256 manual should be pretty close:

http://www.repeater-builder.com/rrw/r-r-w-index.html

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I will echo PETNRDX's comment, sounds like a filter alignment issue.

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I have the 259 version, works great from HF to VHF.
The only gotcha that I have ever had with it is that it is useless if you are trying to field tune an antenna that is in a high RF environment.

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The one I looked at on the large auction site was missing the RF amplifier.

As always buyer beware . . .

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Should be programmable with RSS.

The "analog" models requiring eeprom programming would be CLB instead of RLB

If it is the one I looked at on the big auction site it is pretty missing all the stuff needed to make it complete -
Cabinet
Power Supply
Pre Filter
Post filter
RF Power Amplifier ...

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Ditto what Will said.

Many thanks for the work you put in on this board.

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Not sure if this is the correct forum, but here goes-

My apologies to anyone who has tried to send me an email via Batlabs, apparently the server sending out email from Batlabs is being blocked by my web host (Network Solutions :evil: )

Apparently any email sent to me via Batlabs apparently ...

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The rf alignment cable with the BNC connector is # 3082059X01 (CBL CLIP FILTER PROBE)

$19.00 list price from Motorola

Well worth the money.

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Frigging fat fingers !!!

Continuation of first post:

For all things Syntor related I would recommend you spending some time on Mike Blenderman's site:

http://www.onfreq.com

Ignore the under construction note and click on the link to access the site.

As far as the band split, the radio came with ...

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For all things Syntor related I would recommend you spending some time on Mike Blenderman's site:

http://www.onfreq.com

Ignore the under construction note and click on the link to access the site.

Andy Brinkley

Just doing some troubleshooting 101 -

From what I interpret from your post it appears that the PC and RIB you have work with the P100's, so the difference would be the P200 software and the rib to radio cable.

Provided you have the correct software for the P200's, I would check the rib to radio ...

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The tuning a MSF5000 is not for the faint of heart.

Go to Repeater-Builder.com and spend a few hours reading the articles and manuals that are posted on the website, then tune and realign exactly as described in the manual and you will have a repeater that will provide years of reliable service ...

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Check the internal fuse on the power supply board. Mine blew and did the same thing - would run off of dc but not AC replaced it and it has been running great for several years.

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To parphrase the State Farm "French Model" Commercial - just because it's on the internet doesn't make it true.

Much of the information I see posted on the Internet about the Mostar radios is at best inaccurate. The conventional Mostars do not use proms or eproms, they utilize reprogrammable ...

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The 1504 will need a new set of cables made up to take it down to 440 mhz, the cans should be OK.

Mosy over to repeater-builder.com and look through the manuals for the T1504, looks like the loss will be 1.4 db on transmit, 1.4 db on receive (or 0.7 db per can)

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I still have several of these in service, pretty decent units compared to what Zetron wanted for a comparable unit.

PM me if you need a standard code format eprom, I have a copy of the eprom data somewhere here.

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PM sent

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The part numbers to swap are correct, and the A,B,C indicate the revision of the part, any revision will work.
A good reference on the SABER is:

http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/saber/saber-index.html

You will need to create a codeplug from scratch with the options that you have read off ...

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No scan function, you change channels by pressing the monitor button.

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The Informer will do 4 channels, but you can only monitor 1 at a time.

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First try to reprogram them using the saved archive you made when you read them (First rule of radio programming)

If you forgot to make an archive or this doesn't work you can generate one from scratch using the RSS, but make sure the eeprom size (2k or 8k) is correct for the radio and for the ...

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Program requirements similiar to the X9000, slow computer, DOS based only.

PM if you need more info.

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http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... er+pin+out

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David -

If you are running Windows go to Accessories then select calculator and the change to "scientific" under the view tab and it has a nifty hex to decimal conversion feature.

PM me if you need further.

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I am in the process of scanning one and it will be posted in the files section of the R1801 Yahoogroup in the next few days.

The manual covers the service / repair side of the R-1801, you will also probably need the instructions for each firmware / adapter application.

73's

Andy Brinkley

You will need the services of a frequency coordinator to move the transmitter site / increase power, etc.

You also will need to add narrowband emissions (11KOF3E) to the license before the end of the year.

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Here goes:

Government Agencies are exempt from ULS licensing fees.

In order to obtain new frequencies get out the check book and fork over a hunk of cash (I would guess $500 - $1000 for coordination, and this is after you have form 601 complete) to one of the FCC approved frequency coordinators ...

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OK, looks like my R2600 is suffering from the same malady that everyone else's is doing -

Works fine on DC, won't do diddly on AC.

Anyone have a schematic of the power supply?

TIA

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Gary -

The VHF and UHF Mostar command boards came in 2 flavors - the NVR (usually a red board) with "small connector" and the display model (usually a green board) with the "large connector". They required different programs (cassettes) and cables to program each variety of radio.

The Display ...

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Q706 is NLA at Motorola (P/N 4883875D05). The description comes up as a M7505 SCR.

Q706 and VR702 form a crowbar circuit and will fire if the +5V supply voltage goes above ~ 6.3 volts. When it does fire it will take out fuse F701. (as you have found out)

Pull Jumper JU8 out and check the ...

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Jake -

I'll look, I may have a copy of the manual some where in the file cabinet.

IIRC all of the Pageboys were tone and voice only (no squelch circuit) so you won't be able to monitor with them and the tone elements for the GC tone sets might be difficult if not impossible to find.

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