Anybody else ever get gibberish on the Zone line of their display? It comes and goes;
I keep my Zone line programmed as blank. What gives?
XTL5000 O5 Gibberish?
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Re: XTL5000 O5 Gibberish?
HOST/DSP/Flashcode? CH revision? History of radio? Is it just on the zone display, or other parts of the display?
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spectragod
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Re: XTL5000 O5 Gibberish?
I just programmed a front mount XTL 2.5k, 12.00.18 FW, left the zone line blank, it would get random characters in the zone line, they would come and go when changing channels/zones.kk6rq wrote:Anybody else ever get gibberish on the Zone line of their display? It comes and goes;
I keep my Zone line programmed as blank. What gives?
This radio is 2 weeks old, fresh from M, I would imagine it is a FW or CPS version issue.
I overcame the problem by programming the line with text, the problem went away.
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Revelation 6:8
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Revelation 6:8
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kk6rq
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Re: XTL5000 O5 Gibberish?
HOST/DSP/Flashcode? CH revision? History of radio? Is it just on the zone display, or other parts of the display?
FW: 12.00.18
DSP: 12.00.07
CH: 8.00.00
Hi power remote O5 VHF. just back from the depot. Using v.13.00.01 CPS. Everything spectragod says parallels my experience, except it isn't a new radio (and it's a XTL5K). 2-3 years old. And just the Zone display.
I'm currently seeing if plugging an O3 head into it can duplicate the gibberish. I'll report back.
ps. To that person who knows who they are: I pronounce gibberish like a "J"; I pronounce .GIF like a "G".
So there.
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spectragod
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Re: XTL5000 O5 Gibberish?
I have 2 03 heads with the same FW, I don't have the issues with them, it may be a FW thing that's buggy with the M/O style heads?
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Revelation 6:8
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Revelation 6:8
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kk6rq
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Re: XTL5000 O5 Gibberish?
No gibberish with my O3 head. Until someone hears something official, I'm turning on zone names as well.I'll report back.
Who knows....I might learn to like them....
(Meantime I'll be converting my spare doorstop 800 analog Spectras to those FPP 6 meter Astros Spectras I've been seeing
at all the trade shows....)