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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..

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

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

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

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

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.

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!