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Well, it isn't really a "flash code" per se, but rather a modified firmware version that bypasses the need for the "red battery".

You need to download the firmware file (not open it), and then use the flash tool mentioned on W9CR's site. If you read and poke around, everything you need is there.

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Probably going to want to do that via the rear accessory connector, especially if you want remote channel control.

This may have been a CML product product manufactured for Motorola, so you may try reaching out to them (if they still exist).

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What do you mean by a "beep echo"? you can hear a brief echo of his radio's PTT ID sidetone?

That happens acoustically depending on the environment of the radio. Probably because he's in a truck.

No, there is no setting for that.

And yes, lots of views and no answers. Unfortunately the board here ...

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The O7/O9 heads are not compatible with the XTL series mobiles, those are APX-only control heads.

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Anyone know if Wowbagger is still around? Shows he hasn't been logged in since 2019... Uh-oh...

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Very good. I assume that is done in the SPF menu?

Additionally, I have ordered a replacement battery for the unit, where is that battery located and is it reasonably accessible?

Thanks!

God only knows how long the battery is thats in my EBAY 2670. I'm in a bit of a panic to get the old one ...

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TIMS is nice for sweeping phone lines to determine frequency response for performing voter equalization and doing end-to-end work.

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Wow, who knew... That looks like a place I wouldn't want to change anything in...

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Holy thread revival, Batman!

Does anyone have the pinouts for the analog (orange) connectors on the back of the ATAC 3K comparator? And which goes to which?

Could also use some guidance on how the analog side connects to the DIU and Quantar station. It's been forever since I've worked on this stuff.

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Sent you an e-mail to your QRZ email address. I'm having massive reliability issues with Batboard right now.

I did find this:

SmartWorks Systems
SmartWorks is a single-site trunking system that can support up to seven channels.
SmartWorks has the following capabilities:
• Designed for small system ...

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So for a telephone interconnect, you need a "Central Interconnect Terminal" or CIT. The CIT contains boards such as the PLIB, PLIC, etc. It also has a shelf of audio transformers that convert the telephone lines into four wire audio for transmission over the rest of the system. It's its own card ...

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For anyone searching in the future:

f * 12 + IF = carrier frequency. For 900MHz units.

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Did you ever get anywhere with this? Same problem here. The equipment I have to remove passwords doesn't cover the Advisor Gold.

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I have some pagers that I need to determine the frequency of. Bravo plus, Advisor, etc.

These are 900MHz units. Does anyone recall the formula?

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Well, I was trying to figure out what you meant.
To me none of it was Oddball. But then again I work for an MSS.
Own a number of Quantars and Quantros personally in several frequency ranges.
I dealt with data base stations, simulcast only Epic SCM's and all the rest.
We had 288 quantars in ...

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Anyone know if a 42-50MHz MT1000 will work on receive only at 39MHz?

I'm having a hell of a time trying to modify the RSS to allow the frequency entry. Seems 40.0 is the absolute furthest out of band it'll allow the radio to program before the RSS simply refuses to allow entry. I tried like hell to ...

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RIA - Glad to help! Some of those TRA units were in fact two wire only to lessen cost for basic things. The thought was that there really would be no need to return tones or duplex audio back to a dispatch console or remote with something as simple as a conventional base station. These things were ...

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OLH generally refers to On Line Help.

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Garden State Battery also carries (or carried) them.

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You can define the band, etc. in the MSF 5000 RSS and make the change to UHF there. But man oh man, I'd just get a UHF uniboard rather than go through all that.

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If I recall correctly, the TRC option should only be enabled if the radio is in a consolette, and that consolette has a TRC board in it. It's a bit misleading.

There are also jumpers in the radio that have to be changed around in order to get things like filtered audio, etc. It may be worth ...

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Only way I've ever seen to get voting information out of these things is with the CTI Products equipment.

I wouldn't put any DIGITAC comparators in service due to high failure rates as they age (and I speak from experience). Your money is better spent on a JPS SNV12 or SpectraTAC comparator for ...

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An EPIC is an EPIC is an EPIC. With certain exceptions, you can swap station control boards between Satellite Receivers, AstroTAC receivers, Quantars, etc.

Hi Larry

KOKOK!

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See if you can read it with GP300 RSS... Let us know what happens. I'm damn curious... I also wonder if it uses the European GP300 RSS... Those had displays IIRC...

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It appears that the noise floor on this machine is around -90 in the spectrum analyzer.

Do you work on these? Whats the ballpark cost? This is an amateur radio use unit, no profit made with it.

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OK. Ran the NVRAM clear and recalibrated. Still getting random signal level numbers. Checked against an IFR-A7550 that hasn't seen a calibration in God knows how long, it's reasonably accurate though.

One thing I do hear a bit of is a sweeping carrier in the background of the demodulated carrier ...

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Very good. I assume that is done in the SPF menu?

Additionally, I have ordered a replacement battery for the unit, where is that battery located and is it reasonably accessible?

Thanks!

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Considering the SSD functions identically to a magnetic drive, it should not be an issue.

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Picked up an R2660C on eBay for $575.. Made an offer and got lucky.

Seems to work fairly well, but there are a couple of oddities I have noticed:

1. It seems to show a random signal level when nothing is being input. Doesn't show a frequency error when its doing this, nor a deviation. It measures ...

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These connectors on the MTR 2000 are atrocious. On the MTR 3000, they were replaced with euro-type connectors.

Disassemble the station. On the backplane, unsolder the stupid friction tabs Motorola put on there and solder 12" or so of four conductor telephone lead on there. Terminate the other end ...

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Are you sure you have your timing set up right?

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It's not that Motorola screwed up on them, it's that Motorola has it's own non-standard tone plan for tone keying with Centracom.

Simply set the DIP switches on the consolette tone remote control board for "Centracom" and it all lines up.

However, not all XTL consolettes have tone remote control ...

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Well more than likely you are using tone control to key the radio. Aside from an ACIM connection, if you are using that, there is no serial communication between Centracom and the attached radios.

You need to program the number of channels you want into the first zone of the radio, and then program ...

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Try a firmware update to re-write the DSP firmware if it is corrupt.

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mikegilbert wrote:Gonna miss the DigiTAC clicks and SpectraTAC chirps when they're gone. The county is slowly replacing them with SNV-12s.

SNV-12's still chirp if the dip switch to disable it hasn't been flipped.

I put in a lot of the infrastructure in some of the small cities in LA County.

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I'm *fairly* certain I have that documentation either here at home, or at work. Thanks for the reference, I'll take a look through it.

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In the Resource Configuration screen of CDM, you should have "Frequency". You use "Frequency" to determine how many channels the console has access to, and what the names of the channels are.

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Very good. Well I would definitely not be using the Community Repeater manuals on it, as the backplane would be completely different. My guess would be as different channels are selected, different tones are encoded/decoded.

For repeater service, you only need F1, so you should be good there. I ...

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I don't think it was a community repeater, else why would the F!/PL, F2 control and guard tone modules be in it? Sounds like it was some sort of base station originally and converted to a repeater (RCB vs. RTB).

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Is it possible to set up a Centracom Gold Series B&L operator position as a remote op, similar to the way you'd do it with Gold Elite CIE's using a ROCI/CORI combo?

Something tells me it might be possible to use the CORI on the B&L position - does this make any sense?

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No, there isn't.

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Agreed - you can make this do exactly what you want with a little patience and research. Take your time and work through it, you'll figure it out. The MICOR is one of the most versatile stations out there with easy access to all of the necessary signals, like Bob said, you just need to find the ...

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This really belongs in the infrastructure forum. I miss being able to move posts around.

It should be as simple as hanging your ID circuit off the PTT line and running the audio output of the identifier into the audio input of the MICOR repeater. Those leads should be available on the back side of ...

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Interfacing *any* type of controller to an MTR 2000 should be as simple as following the procedures outlined for the given controllers spelled out on Repeater Builder.

With few exceptions, all repeater controllers will interface to any given radio in the same manner. So while there is a procedure ...

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When programming the MTR 2000 for external control, it should be set up in "Base" mode, not "Repeater" mode. You really should read all of the documentation on Repeater Builder about the MTR 2000 and interfacing it to an external controller. I gave you the link in your message about this in the ...

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Holy thread revival, Sandra! 11 years!

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That is correct. The MTR 2000 internal controller supports very basic repeat functions, timing functions and identification functions. For anything beyond that, you will need an external controller of some sort. There is a plethora of information on how to interface repeater controllers to the MTR ...

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Has anyone ever used Vanguard Networks 6455 series routers for E&M over IP?

Apparently this was a Motorola supported configuration for a system I decommissioned and the routers have come available for reuse.

They were being used to backhaul remote operator positions over an IP network.

Curious if ...

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I came across this some time back and had to uninstall and reinstall the CPS to get rid of the problem.

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I would put a wire counterpoise off of the ground side of the antenna trailing along the ground and see what you get.

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