Monty's Reinitialize How-To. Anyone?

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:19 pm

Before Monty's passing he posted a few times about having a How-To he had written up for blanking and reinitialized the logic board on Maxtrac's.

Anyone have that info, willing to pass it on to me? I have some VHF units that a friend wants me to reprogram. They are 16 pin logic boards, setup as 8ch, i would like to set them up as 16 or 32ch, all the posts i read through talk about blanking and reinitializing, but i don't want to screw anything up.

There was mention of taking note of soft pot settings, the tuning info, etc etc.. A lot of disorganized tid bits, i would love to read a how-to on this.

Thanks!

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:40 pm

A lot of the info that you need should be on the Maxtrac page of the main site. But after that you have the right idea. Definately note the softpot settings prior to beginning so you can get those setting to where they were before hand.

The Maxtrac/Radius page
http://www.batlabs.com/maxrad.html

Here's a couple of posts I found in a search that may help as well.
http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... ogic+board
http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... ogic+board

I just grabbed them off the search page without going to far into them.. but you get the idea.

EKLB · Post by **EKLB** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 7:44 am

Outa here

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:00 am

PM Sent!

Thanks,

Scott

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:06 am

I will post links to download the info after i get it compiled into adobe .pdf files and uploaded to my web space. Each file, one for 16 and one for 5 pin radios, should be roughly 1.5MB, easy enough for someone on dialup to get.

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:46 am

I was able to get the files down to about 700kb, with a little compression, so they still have good enough quality to easily print and read, but also makes it easy for dialup users to get them without waiting forever.

Should be available for download tonight, if anyone needs them sooner just PM me with an email address.

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 5:39 pm

EKLB,

If you can send me a copy of that scan I will host it and post it so anyone else looking to do the same thing can utilize it. I searched for the better part of this morning for my copy but I must have lost it.

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:16 pm

JAYMZ wrote:EKLB,

If you can send me a copy of that scan I will host it and post it so anyone else looking to do the same thing can utilize it. I searched for the better part of this morning for my copy but I must have lost it.

I got the scans cleaned up and made into .pdf files and was going to also host them. But if your willing to as well i could pass them your way. Each file is small, about 700kb.

2wayguy · Post by **2wayguy** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:44 am

Any luck getting these hosted somewhere? I would really like to see them so I can get a maxtrac project working. Thanks

EKLB · Post by **EKLB** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:05 pm

Outa here

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:47 pm

I am in the process of retyping them to make sure the PDF isn't going to be a totally huge file. I'm about halfway finished, but was sidetracked yesterday for something else. I'll probably finish it up tonight or tomorrow and get it posted.

EKLB · Post by **EKLB** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:28 pm

Outa here

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:50 pm

MERRY CHRISTMAS

As promised. There are 2 PDFs for the Maxtrac board initialization procedures. After typing all the scans I received I had noticed that a lot of the information was repeated several times over. So, with a little text formating and printing to PDF I present the following to you guys. I have also e-mailed this to BatWing for inclusion for the Maxtrac/Radius pages.

I just want to say Thanx to EKLB for e-mailing me the scans to type up.

http://www.kc2kit.com/batlabs/5pin.pdf
http://www.kc2kit.com/batlabs/16pin.pdf

Enjoy!!

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:32 pm

Thanks for hosting those. I was going to email you the .pdf files that i created but you never pm'ed me back about it.

I'm away from home right now, so i will download the ones you created and add them to my web page when i get time this week. Been a busy Christmas, and i have to drive 7 hours tomorrow to get home!!

EKLB · Post by **EKLB** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:27 pm

Outa here

n7maq · Post by **n7maq** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:54 pm

On this upgrade, you are not changing out the logic board. So you can blank the board without clearing the softpot values (I would still record them just the same BEFORE you start). From the BLANK LOGIC BOARD menu, hit F4 "BLANK BOARD with EXTENDED CODPLUG/ save TUNE DATA" . Then when you go to reinitialize the logic board, program in WITH OLD TUNE DATA. Then you don't need to retune it. I don't know if you need to enter the xtal data, but this step I always have done anyway. Double check the softpot values, and program up your 32 channels. If your model did not have scan before the upgrade, you can get a new escutcheon for a few bucks.

Jim.

wireless.friendly · Post by **wireless.friendly** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:06 am

JAYMZ wrote:As promised. There are 2 PDFs for the Maxtrac board initialization procedures. After typing all the scans I received I had noticed that a lot of the information was repeated several times over. So, with a little text formating and printing to PDF I present the following to you guys. I have also e-mailed this to BatWing for inclusion for the Maxtrac/Radius pages.

I just want to say Thanx to EKLB for e-mailing me the scans to type up.

http://www.kc2kit.com/batlabs/5pin.pdf
http://www.kc2kit.com/batlabs/16pin.pdf

Enjoy!!

Links dead!

Anybody can share it again? Or send me to email? wireless.friendly # gmail.com

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:11 am

That's my fault... my callsign changed back in january and I forgot to update all my links of stuff all over...

http://www.k2jsv.com/batlabs/5pin.pdf
http://www.k2jsv.com/batlabs/16pin.pdf