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Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2002 9:35 pm**

I have been sucessful in making a Spectra move onto the 902 ham band. I have 10 modes programmed for these conventional channels. What I would like to do is remove the existing trunking data that is programmed in the radio. I have never worked with a trunked radio and don't know how to deal with this.

Thanks

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2002 9:52 pm**

On 2002-01-04 00:35, kd6kml wrote:
I have been sucessful in making a Spectra move onto the 902 ham band. I have 10 modes programmed for these conventional channels. What I would like to do is remove the existing trunking data that is programmed in the radio. I have never worked with a trunked radio and don't know how to deal with this.

Thanks

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chinamoto

[ This Message was edited by: bg7lw on 2002-01-04 00:54 ]

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2002 9:55 pm**

On 2002-01-04 00:52, bg7lw wrote:
On 2002-01-04 00:35, kd6kml wrote:
I have been sucessful in making a Spectra move onto the 902 ham band. I have 10 modes programmed for these conventional channels. What I would like to do is remove the existing trunking data that is programmed in the radio. I have never worked with a trunked radio and don't know how to deal with this.

Thanks
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chinamoto

[ This Message was edited by: bg7lw on 2002-01-04 00:54 ]

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2002 10:17 pm**

There are two quick ways of doing it.
The first way is to change the radio into a conventional only, but I kinda figure you are unable to that.
The second way will not remove the trunking features but it will allow you not to have a that annoying trunking mode everytime you scroll through your channels.
You first must delete all the trunking personalities and modes except for one. As you know , everytime you attempted to delete that last one , the stubborn RSS won't let you. The next thing you do is add a new personality but do not add a mode to it. Now you can delete the old personality and when you try to F-10 out of the menu, you will get a warning that at least one personality does not have a mode pointing to it. Hit F-10 any way to get out of the menu.
Now check your F-5 menu and you should not see any trunking chanels.
I have done this on quite a few 900 spectras for the same reason.
Good Luck.

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2002 7:35 am**

metro121

Thank you for sharing this useful information!

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2002 1:19 pm**

your welcome.

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2002 5:55 pm**

Good stuff...too bad it doesn't work on trunked Maxtracs! I tried.

Posted: **Sat Jan 05, 2002 5:57 pm**

If you want to delete all the trunking info out of a Maxtrac, all you need to do is change out the firmware chip, blank outh the board and then reintialize it as a conventional.

Posted: **Sun Jan 06, 2002 12:31 am**

I have not found a good way of blanking a logic board yet. Maybe someone will let me know how for the VHF and UHF Maxtracs / Radius radios. I have a few radios that have bogus information/model number and serial number in them. They may have been poorly hacked somewhere in their history and I want to straghten them out.

[ This Message was edited by: Will on 2002-01-06 03:34 ]

Posted: **Sun Jan 06, 2002 4:24 am**

On 2002-01-05 20:57, metro121 wrote:
If you want to delete all the trunking info out of a Maxtrac, all you need to do is change out the firmware chip, blank outh the board and then reintialize it as a conventional.

Sure, easy enough if you have LAB RSS and are only doing a couple. Not very practical if you have a customer with dozens, and you're only trying to get rid of the "1A" in the display.

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2002 9:36 pm**

Thanks Metro!! I have done this on all the spectras that I and friends have. It is nice not to have a blank mode.
Walt

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2002 2:38 am**

hey wavetar,
let me work on that maxtrac problem and see what i can come up with.

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2002 4:43 am**

Cool, thanks Metro. It would be great if a simple, non-intrusive solution were found.

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Trunking Spectra...How to remove trunking info