MT1000 MDC Front Cover

muggsy09 · Post by **muggsy09** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:40 pm

I have an MT1000 with the MDC front cover, it crapped out on me the other day, and I was wondering, if I buy an MT1000 No MDC front cover, can I just switch the covers and the MDC will work?

HLA · Post by **HLA** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:40 pm

do you mean DTMF or the ones with the orange man down button? why wouldn't you just put the same cover back on it?

601 · Post by **601** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:11 am

You need that cover in order for signalling to work on the MT1000 radios. All the circitry is in it. If you replace it with a non-signalling cover, you will not get the MDC. The radio may have to be reprogrammed in order to recognize that it does not have the MDC on it anymore. I'm not 100% sure if that's the case. I know that they are programmed independantly from the radio.

muggsy09 · Post by **muggsy09** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:13 am

Thanks for the info. It's tough to find MT1000 with the madown button and MDC, so I figured since my radio was dead but the cover was ok, than I could swap it with a normal MT1000.

601 · Post by **601** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:16 am

ok, I think I misunderstood your question...

You say the radio stopped working? If so, you can put it on another MT1000. The radio will need to be reprogrammed to recognize that there is the MDC plate on it. That's pretty much it.

I was assuming you meant the cover died on you.

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:59 am

I misunderstood the question at first also..

Yes, if the radio died just swap the MDC cover onto the new radio and reprogram.

Since you going to have to reprogram the new radio to your frequencies anyway its no biggie. Then you just have to enable the signalling features and setup the MDC options.

I would have offered a radio but my last one is on ebay right now.

muggsy09 · Post by **muggsy09** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:20 pm

Thanks guys, I was able to find another MT1000 with the MDC cover on ebay, so we'll see how it goes. Thanks for the input.

~Muggsy~

AR15Ron · Post by **AR15Ron** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:02 am

kb0nly wrote:I misunderstood the question at first also..

Yes, if the radio died just swap the MDC cover onto the new radio and reprogram.

Since you going to have to reprogram the new radio to your frequencies anyway its no biggie. Then you just have to enable the signalling features and setup the MDC options.

I would have offered a radio but my last one is on ebay right now.

I thought the question was pretty unclear, and I'm still not clear as to what stopped working, the radio or the MDC1200? I have seen many of the MDC covers do funny things like squak gibberish even though properly programmed... I guess since a radio with MDC has been located it wont matter.