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Lots of people seem to use CPS R02.02.00 with the MTS2000 ...but is it safe to use R02.02.00 with an MTS2000 which has early firmware??

I have read that you should NOT use R02.02.00 or later if MTS2000 firmware is BELOW 5.63? You need to use a special standalone utility to update the MTS2000 before you can safely use R02.02.00.

Am I being overcautious? Do people just use R02.02.00 without even thinking about the MTS2000 firmware version??

I use it with FW as early as 5.41. [My oldest radio] Never a problem. GARY N4KVE

I had some radios that were R01.xx and it would not play nice with them

n3obl wrote:I had some radios that were R01.xx and it would not play nice with them

Same here. Actually had to recover the radio with MTSX Lab. FW was 1.15. They would read fine with CPS, but as soon as you wrote with CPS, the radio went all to hell. Could not recover with CPS, nor with MTSX RSS. Had to use lab. Got all sorts of errors with lab, but once the write was complete, all was fine again.

RESCUE161 wrote:

n3obl wrote:I had some radios that were R01.xx and it would not play nice with them

Same here. Actually had to recover the radio with MTSX Lab. FW was 1.15. They would read fine with CPS, but as soon as you wrote with CPS, the radio went all to hell. Could not recover with CPS, nor with MTSX RSS. Had to use lab. Got all sorts of errors with lab, but once the write was complete, all was fine again.

same result here. IIRC those early (pre 1994) MTS2000 controllers were NOT true Flashport controllers (and had only 256K of masked ROM ala an MTX8000). Notice they were REPLACE not REFLASH on the Motorola Reband worksheet.

As an experiment, I took an MTX8000 B5 with a 1.37 masked ROM controller, blew an S-record from a Smartnet C5 MTS2000, and tried to program the frankenradio with CPS R02.02. Got the same result as the old 1.15 MTS2000's I've seen- FAIL 01/82. Could read them fine, but writing ALWAYS hosed them to the point where they needed S-record "repair" with that forbidden fruit. This leads me to believe the early MTS2000 radios from 1992/1993 were NOT actually Flashport capable.

I recently purchased some old VHF MTS2000 Model 1 radios and tried to program them with CPS 2.03.00. As another member on this post stated I could read the radio fine, when I went to write to the radio it would check to see if the codeplug could be written and then suddenly stop. Apparently the radios were last programmed with RSS 6.07. From memory the Firmware is 5.01. My question to the batlab board is, is there any version of CPS for the MTS that would be safe and work with these radios or am I doomed to using DOS everytime I wish to make a change to the radios? Thanks in advance.