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Greetings, I have a 1073A head that shows error when I put it on my X 9000, it shows fail 05/84 and error 08/10. Is there some one here on the board that can check it out? I have a couple of heads that I will trade to get mine fixed. I want to use it on my T83 Spectra.
Steve

Don't forget that the 1073 is not necessarily going to work on an X9000. It depends upon what firmware is in it and where it has been in use most recently. Once set up to run on a Spectra, the 1073 won't work on an X9000 without some fiddling around with the eeprom in it, and even then, it seems to depend upon which revision level of the firmware is in it.

I would try the head on the Spectra instead of an X9000 and see what happens.

By the way, there are surface mount electrolytic caps inside these heads which go bad (I think there are four of them, it's been awhile since I worked on one.)

From the Batlabs Syntor X 9000 page:

FAIL 05/84: Control Unit EEPROM blank. See Control Unit troubleshooting in this manual.

ERROR 08/10: Option serial bus failure. See the Systems 9000 Siren/PA option instruction manual.

The 05/84 means the head has never been programmed at all or it was blanked. The 08/10 means the radio is programmed for a Siren/PA and no Siren/PA is connected to the radio (or the Siren/PA internal jumper is not configured correctly, or the Siren/PA is dead, if the Siren/PA is connected).

Try programming the control head first and then the radio drawer on your Syntor X 9000. You could skip the Syntor X 9000 and just program the control head on the Spectra. The Spectra RSS is more forgiving of faster programming computers than the older Syntor X 9000 RSS. There is nothing in your description that said there is anything at all wrong with your control head. BTW, you will need to set the Spectra RSS control head type to S9000E in order to program the A9 head.