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i would be interested in knowing this as well.

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thank you for the response Bill. I have to set up a meeting with our radio shop to talk about this for sure, just trying to get a little background so I am not going into the meeting with nothing.

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Our area has a new 700/800MHz trunked system they are trying to get all county departments on, only downfall is they will not pay for the radios for us to get on it. My knowledge on radios is pretty basic so bare with me... We have a VHF repeater system already setup for our area. we have 3 Voters a...

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I will be doing an install in my 2011 F150 XLT in the near future with a vhf cdm1250 and a uhf xtl2500. I will be putting the 1250 head in the same spot as your truck... just need to figure out where to put the XTL head. I will post pictures of the process as well. Thanks again mmckenna for the writ...

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thank you guys for your quick replies. I will be in touch with you escomm in the near future...

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I tried to search, but was unable to find my answer. I am a newbie to the ASTRO25 Mobiles. I have just bought a dash mount XTL2500 and would like information on what is needed to make it a remote mount radio. Is it as easy as buying a remote mount kit (like CDM's) or is there more to it hardware/sof...

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Sorry for abandoning this post... The problem was a blown head gasket. As soon as that was replaced the interference was eliminated.

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Jim, Thank you for all your suggestions. Its been a busy week and I have not had much time to play around with the radio. I have been told that it sounds much better as of right now. The only thing that has changed from the last time I tinkered with it was we removed the portable refrigeration unit ...

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I know its been a few weeks but I was finally able to take a look at it. First thing I did was check the Ground. The ground is about 6Ft long and is grounded to the back of the Driver seat frame. I figured this wasn't the best ground so I unhooked it looking for another place to locate it. After I r...

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The one mentioned above is a Demers Ambulance. Haven't had a chance to get into the electrical system yet. I will post an update with what I find within the week. Thanks again for all the help.

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thank you for the replies. I will test with the ambulance engine off. I will also try to minimize the electrical load in the back, and check the connections out.

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We have been having an ongoing issue with one of our ambulances radio's. some days its better, some days much worse. the issue is a humming noise its gotten to the point to on the "bad" days the dispatcher says we are unreadable. We have had the local radio shop out 3 or 4 times and they w...

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Harris makes a great product. Seeing that they are made in the County I work in we are seriously considering them. Harris has allowed us to test there dual band portables... they are very impressive and are MUCH cheaper then Motorola's.

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I have been told that people were having issues with the low profile type of antenna's. I live in a city where coverage is not a problem so I'm guessing that is why I have not had any issues.

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I have the Laird Low-profile black VHF "puck" on my truck... works great for me. I used to have a quarterwave on my truck and the noise caused me to go with the low profile's.

http://www.theantennafarm.com/catalog/i ... 95_457_211

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thank you, looks like i will be finding a 8meg radio...

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do you know the Highest the HOST will go with 4meg?

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What is the Difference between a 4MEG Vocon and a 8MEG Vocon..

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thank you sir.

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When using the USB programing cable RKN4105A are you able to perform firmware upgrades?

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I have R06.12.02 as well. Running on Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Have not had a problem yet.

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This is a great how to on the newer style ford f-150's. Thank you!

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fantastic. let me know when you post it. thank you.

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I run both uhf and vhf. I will probably off set them one on the drivers side back and passenger side back built ford tough i guess!

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I will be doing something in the next week or so. if you do decide to drop your headliner let me know what you find.

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hmm. I'll have to look into more discrete antenna's. thank you for the input Tom. Something to consider. As for the Phantom Elite, i will have to do some more research on it.

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Just bought a new 2011 Ford f-150 super crew 5.5ft bed. On my old truck i had 2 nmo mounts on the roof. with this new truck i am thinking of something a little more covert. any ideas on mounting options and antenna's? I was thinking magnet mounts in the bed of the truck hidden by the tonneau cover.....

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Benjaminrydzewski@gmail.com

Thank you.

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yeah i saw that online. i tried that as well. i think i might just go buy the cable tomorrow and make life easier. thanks for all your help.

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Maybe it's the pins on the back.... I have a 20-pin connector i got off eBay. on it it says 2 10 20 on the top of the connector.. so i went from left to right counting up.. so bottom left is 1, upper left is 2, then lower 3 upper 4 and so on.... is this correct... if not then there's the problem!

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my issue is the cable wont even read the radio... i cant open it in cps, or the firmware tool.

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Ok... Now im lost... Here is the cable I made... following the batlabs diagram and removing the test set part. DB 25 20pin on radio 1--------------------7 4---| -connected pin 4-11 on db25 11--| 12------------------13 15------------------17 25------------------18 I also installed a switch that conne...

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Thank You

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I'm going over the schematics to build this cable..

http://batlabs.com/images/rkn4083.gif

I saw that you need a flash adapter to update the firmware. My question is, Can I just add a Switch to my cable (linked above) to connect DB-25 pin 1 to pin 25?

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dang.

now what i wanted to hear.

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i bought this radio and it is a w5 radio.. it came with a w9 control head. cant get it to scan.. only buttons that work are mode, vol, home and sel (sel is the DIM.. dim button dosnt work) any way to get it to work the right way?

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post the info on the stickers on the back of the radio. im sure i can get u a codeplug for it.

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to get the code plug error off all you need to do is get yourself a gp380 codeplug and write it to your radio. i hope you saved your tuning software before you started tinkering with it. if not you need to have it re-tuned.

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I've been looking around the web and on here and cant seem to find a definitive answer on if its possible to flash a GP-380 to a HT-1250 (VHF). Money's tight and if I can pick up a GP for 140 bucks and make it work like my stolen HT i would be a happy camper!!

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i bought an aftermarket one from e-_ _ _ from Ontario Canada. have not had any issues with my spectra's, cdm's and HT1250's. works just fine.

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alright. thank you.

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ok. improper tuning can result in no RX right?

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i just got the cps for it and was in the tuner program and i don't know what i did. I will have to have it tuned professionally then. is there any way to revert back to factory defaults or something along the lines of that?

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I was messing around with my radio and now i don't get any RX on any ch's/ im guessing my alignment is messed up. anyone have a .sfp file i can try... e-mail me one if u have it. thanks!

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Is it just changing the firmware / codeplugs or how does that work? if you know.

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I've heard about it, So i know you can. I don't know how but I'm sure it involves LAB software.

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gotcha. thank you!

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how many tones you using? 2 or 4

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my RSS will read all supported regions including LA

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heres a first. have radio here with no sticker on bottom. read the radio with r06.05.00 and under model number it says M25KD9AA5AN - Theres no AA or LA. how do you think this happened? also is there any way to revert it back so i can have a real model number? i don't know if its an LA or an AA model...

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