Rebanding a Maxtrac
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Rebanding a Maxtrac
I have a few Maxtracs that are currently on the 36-42 mhz band split that I want to reband to the 29-35 mhz band split. I have read a few articles on the hex editor and other methods, but am still semi lost. Can anyone provide some assistance? Or better yet, give a step by step procedure on doing it?
Re: Rebanding a Maxtrac
mack293 wrote:I have a few Maxtracs that are currently on the 36-42 mhz band split that I want to reband to the 29-35 mhz band split. I have read a few articles on the hex editor and other methods, but am still semi lost. Can anyone provide some assistance? Or better yet, give a step by step procedure on doing it?
It's called go buy a radio for the band segment you want them to operate in. You can generally find radios on Ebay for the different low band segments.
Trying to mod the radio to work in a segment other than what they were built for on low band is not worth the pain you will have to go through. It requires changing a bunch of the circuit board components.
Re: Rebanding a Maxtrac
Thanks and understood. Long story short, I have a customer who purchased these and was told by the seller that they were on the 29-35 mhz bandsplit when in fact they are not. Seller is being difficult about it and my customer is pretty much stuck with them now. Considering I own a communications company, I can get these in the right band split (new and used) all day long with no issue. As a third party in this, I'm trying to help him salvage what he has now. Besides, I figured learning this would be good general knowledge for the future.
Last resort and if all else fails, they pile will be put on ebay.
Last resort and if all else fails, they pile will be put on ebay.
Re: Rebanding a Maxtrac
What he is saying is that even if you have hacked the band limits in the RSS Software, the mid split low band radio really can't be easily moved that far.
Yes, you could change a couple dozen components to get them down to low split, but it would take hours and hours to do so.
So, your best choice is to trade those for the split you really need.
You might get the mid split radios down maybe 3 or 4 mhz with less comprehensive changes, but that still only gets you down to the low 30's.
Not really worth it.
Yes, you could change a couple dozen components to get them down to low split, but it would take hours and hours to do so.
So, your best choice is to trade those for the split you really need.
You might get the mid split radios down maybe 3 or 4 mhz with less comprehensive changes, but that still only gets you down to the low 30's.
Not really worth it.
Steve K.