900 spectra not transmitting pl-any thoughts?

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:44 pm

no pl tx at 902.725 or 927.725

N9LLO · Post by **N9LLO** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:40 am

Mine does that if I read the radio change the codeplug write the radio. I have to make any changes to the original archive and then write the radio. I think its a common problem for hacked 900 spectras and I think it has been discussed before.

Chris
N9LLO

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:38 am

nope

that's not it

I just tried that

Post by **xmo** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:59 am

There is a hacked version of Spectra LAB floating around [might be version 5.03 or something close to that] that lets you put in the out of band frequencies but your radio ends up with this PL problem.

If you start with the current regular [not LAB] RSS and 'adjust' the out of band limits as described on the Batlabs site - you should be able to set up ham frequencies in your Spectra without losing your PL.

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:22 am

Thanks man, that was it

Something interesting I noticed though.

I can write the frequencies in with lab 6.xx

the read the radio with reg ver 6, and write back to it.

Then, it works.

coolness.

n1pfc · Post by **n1pfc** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:37 pm

Yup bug in the RSS software. I've run across it a lot on the 900MHz radios. One version shows it programmed. Go into lab and no TX PL... just ran into it again last night. I finally figured it out with a service monitor that it plain wasn't transmitting the PL despite the fact the software said it was programmed.

Kurt

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:51 pm

n1pfc wrote:Yup bug in the RSS software. I've run across it a lot on the 900MHz radios. One version shows it programmed. Go into lab and no TX PL... just ran into it again last night. I finally figured it out with a service monitor that it plain wasn't transmitting the PL despite the fact the software said it was programmed.

Kurt

yeah wacky, it doesn't do that on uhf rigs though

Kurt
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n1pfc · Post by **n1pfc** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:01 pm

sglass wrote:

Kurt
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I am NOT Hamsexy
heh heh, brings a smile to my face.

I was wondering when someone was going to pick up on that.