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The following question(s) are for information purposes only. I do not currently intend to hack any MTS radio with the risk of the toolproofing and other risks of becoming a paperweight. What I am trying to find out, is it at all possible to take a codeplug from a radio that supports trunking and force it into a conventional only radio, and in the end have the conventional radio support trunking? What would be involved in this said upgrade? Anyone have any experience with trying to accomplish this? I have already searched the board but all of the other posts seem to end at it might be do-able, with no method or experience. Thanks in advance

if your target radio has firmware before 5.42, theoretically you could force a codeplug with the desired options with LAB/DEPOT, retune and align the target radio, and it would work. Of course the target radio would end up with the donor radios serial number, flashcode, etc. Keep in mind that the features of the donor radio will only work if the target's firmware can support it (for example, caller ID on trunking, MPL, etc).

Of course lab/depot is a taboo subject and the use of it has been well covered elsewhere. any target radio with a 5.42 or greater will make a nice paperweight and I can only imagine Hector or Jose muttering "another gringo bricked his MTS. Now we get to charge him 350 american dollars which means 340,000 pesos to fix it." at the depot when you hosed MTS arrives...or they just might send back an MTX8000 and laugh at you.

Would it be any easier or at least less risky to do this sort of an update to an MCS2000? Also, with the depot software, does one version work over the whole series of a given model, or does it get updated and receive the codeplug too new error just as the standard RSS/CPS?

Read the radio with "no pack/unpack" and save the archive file.
If you have any problems,after you edit the radio,you can easy recover it,even you have the toolproof error.

Andreas