VOCON repair swap on Astro Saber, info needed.

[Elroy Jetson]

I'v got a surplus Astro Saber vocon board that's not useful to me as it sits, being as it's set up for 800 MHz. But it's a perfectly good board.

I've got a VHF Astro Saber that has a bad VOCON board. It goes to self test, the green LED stays on, the display goes blank,
repeat.

I'm thinking there might be a way to use the 800 VOCON board and swap specific memory chips between the two,
to give me a working VHF radio.

But, I don't know which data is stored on which memory chip.

I've never actually done this particular sort of repair project and I'm a bit rusty on Astros right now. Mostly my life is now
defined by a large pile of Icom and Kenwood radios these days. I only visit Motorola radios every so often now.

Any info on how I can accomplish this goal will be appreciated.

Uh...no...I don't have any "special" software available to make the job easier.

[mancow]

Without any "special" software you are pretty much screwed.

But, you can take a look at page 7 here http://www.hamradio-dv.org/p25/GuideAST ... Radios.pdf and it will at least show you which chips are what.