Saber Error 0 81

[SUPMO72]

I picked up 2 clean saber II's from craigslist knowing they may not work but the price was right. Both have error 0 81when turned on both have checksum error when read with R070100 RSS. When I make a new codeplug with channel only H396 checked and only program one channel for RX, it takes but I still have error 0 81 and checkcum error when I read the radio. Is it anytihng I can do to recover the radios or do I have 2 nice looking bricks.. Thanks..

[FireCpt809]

do a search on the board. Most likely your computer is too fast and corrupting the codeplug

[SUPMO72]

The computer im using is a 486, 66mhz laptop, cache turned off running MS Dos 6.2. Is that to fast?

[ledzep11]

You might try running your 486 in "deturbo" mode, which would cut the clock speed in half. (33MHz)

[DJP126]

You might want to verify the range that the radio is built for verses the range you are trying to program.

[N6LAU]

I purchased a few Saber a while back that had this error code. Creating a new codeplug in the proper split and dumping it in solved it with no problems other than having to reallign them.

[GlennD]

We, The City of Long Beach corrupt the code plugs on radios sent to salvage. It is corrupted by turning off the radio after a few dots appearing on the screen. It is much faster than programming a bogus code plug into the radio. Since we get vurtually nothing for the radio, speed is of the essence.

The radio can be recovered by programming a valid code plug into the radio.

On the other hand this is much better for the ham user than drilling a hole through the radio. Corrupt code plugs can be recovered. A hole in the radio is forever!