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would gain antenna help the TX or RX side of the radio? yes,HOWEVER, different antenna's have different radiation patterns, some of your higher gain antenna's, Yagi's for example, are used on fixed infrastructure, and have VERY high gain, but a VERY narrow radiation pattern. your antenna choice rea...

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I just need a basic price on the CAD system (basic), a dispatch console and a vhf repeater including new freq. I am also looking for ideas to further help. what I would do, is go around online, searching for companies that provide the equipment/services that you need, then list three or so of those...

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lol

this isnt just a forum ya know :-p

yeah, can't live without the Motorola Laboratory

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from BATLABS.COM(what a co-inkydink)

Trying to figure out which frequency split you helical antenna is for? Look at the paint on the connector:

VHF-YELLOW 136-151MHz
VHF-BLACK 151-162MHz
VHF-BLUE 162-174MHz
UHF-RED 403-435MHz
UHF-GREEN 435-470MHz
UHF-BLACK 470-512MHz

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holy CRAP!!! good work guys... only thing I would add, that I saw "right off" is the "color codes" for the antenna's, since the antenna's dont have part #'s printed on them, looking at an antenna,KNOWING that it's VHF(or uhf) and being able to recognize a color, would be more hel...

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two compact on/off switches on/around the dash, with relays, one that controls ALL front lighting, second controls all REAR lighting.....

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around "here"... they have two channels... same frequency, but one is simplex, one repeated.... so you have a command channel that county hears and a fireground, that command and everyone else hears, but not county, AND anything that county OR command says, is heard by everyone on firegrou...

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But once you do that, you'll loose the ability to use your regular car horn ring button to activate the Air Horn... So you have a choice. Air Horn on the Horn Ring, or Car Alarm. you can use a diode, and you can choose which one to use, either airhorn, or siren...... all of the newer siren controls...

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Data911 starts @ K63-400 for the older units, up to 2.x gig P4's for the newer units....

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Sort of a late reply (among all the other ones), but how did you hook up the Smart Siren to the security system? TAP-II functions... you'd normally have it hooked to the horn ring. instead of +12V from the horn ring, you get +12V from alarm output... I'm assuming of course.. but thats how I did min...

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there is one on ebay right now....

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Data911, more expandable,Data911 has USB/PCMCIA/optional video input, for DVR

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I seriously doubt there is a problem with any of the surface mount devices, they have very low mass and are soldered to those boards with more solder than the devices weigh. This simply osunds like a flex cable reseat and maybe a ref oscillator sawp out at the most. Since he has swapped the flex fr...

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sglass wrote:
kb3jkp wrote:hey seth... I think your tag is expired.......lol
it's renewed

Hey John-I think your dl is invalid

my ID is just fine, thank you though

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hey seth... I think your tag is expired.......lol

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is it maybe one of those "special" interface boards for a data modem???

that might explain "always powering up in first mode"

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uh. 512K or 1meg?

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well..lemme ask you this then.. if I gave you a UHF low split astro spectra, and a conventional analog high power spectra...

how much would u charge to "convert" the analog spectra into an astro spectra?

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ka8ypy wrote:I would be interested in one or two.

are you following me??

lol

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hell, if thats all you're looking for, I have a scanner NIB, used maybe 2 times, I bought it for my mom, but she never used it.. I just programmed it...it's been sitting in a box for about a yr.. how's 90$ shipped?? it's a PRO-something.. whatever was current last year, conventional, covers ~29mhz-1...

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I would pay ~200$

as long as they're IMBE,and smartnet...

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yup... there are addons that can be added into the radio, mostly by aftermarket manufacturers like cimmaron......

most ericsson radios have available an "emergency" lanyard, that, instead of a button, you pull a string.....

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pro-96

http://www.radioreference.com

it's "all about scanning"..

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post a picture! although 7" flex sounds like vhf to me

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OK.. so I dropped my saber3 for for ten billionth time..... WELL........ first.. the MON/PTT wouldnt work.... so I took it apart.... thinking the flex was damaged, no apparent damage.... put it back together MON/PTT still doesnt work.. BUT.. spkr/mic works.... NOW... here's the funny part.... when t...

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spectra,hands down,especially since they're going for ~100$ nowadays..

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120 channels or MODES and.. I wanna say 16 PL tones.... swap the housing and add a display.. easy as that..... same with the astro sabers...... if you have an AS1, drop on a display, and a new case....blow in an AS3 codeplug/srec and you're ready to go..... I have an Saber 1E, that I programmed as ...

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astro saber is taller, and the pinout is different....

try it...see what happens...

but bring it to me first,lol

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hey SG, 150$ , lol...

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I"m talking about a chrome dome, VHF 1/4 wave,not the spring loaded antenna's...yeah..it might get that "swept back" look after a bit,but ...geez.... you'd be better off mounting a 1/4 wave on the lip of the hood.....if you're that concerned about height...

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1998ish Expedition. MX7000 lightbar.

Comes in around 65-75mph... disappears around 75... comes back at 100 I think.

having fun alex??

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drivers door SAG is caused by officers ...... 1."kicking" open doors 2.using OPEN doors as leaning posts 3.opening/closing doors a LOT (I've only seen that issue on ONE non-fleet use CV, and that was a "traveling salesman" that put upwards of 35K a yr on his car) steering wheels ...

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lol..apco.. I dont want to turn this into a ford/chevy thing, but I'll disagree.... the only time I see vics "falling apart" is when they're poorly maintained.. or driving like hell through city streets FULL of potholes.. doing "batman" turns... and other crazy stuff..... with th...

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whats wrong with a 1/4 wave?

so what if it gets whacked... it springs back into position..

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I'm thinking that lip mount....or can u say for sure it's right above you?? also keep in mind, that those "grommets" that they install for the lightbar wiring, are sometimes hard plastic, and not rubber, and are NOT sealed properly, creating a concave area... try dabbing some silicone wher...

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how much SG?

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N9CZV wrote:What are the differences between the 2?

VSELP talks VSELP, IMBE talks IMBE

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would the A9->W9 conversion work the same way???

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just remember that multi-band antenna's are usually a compromise....

they usually get the highest gain at higher frequencies, and zero,sometimes "negative" gain, on the lower frequencies(VHF)

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hehe.. it's a chevy...what can one say??

oh..yeah.. get a toyota

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So...NRD was the tip off eh? Does it have some cryptic meaning like Nick's Radio Distribution? So what do I do now> Is there a way to tell if it's functional? It was workign until I tried to add a few personalities to it that would have been digital if they were programmed correctly. I then reloade...

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NICE.... but uhhh.. why not an "on-glass" cellular lookalike? or drill a hole?? I can understand not wanting to drill the holes, thats where the "on-glass" antenna comes in..... not knocking your install at all.. I think it looks great... just questioning the antenna....and the c...

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HEY! where's the /\/\ ????

looks a little ........busy.....but good...

antenna spacing is good.. function over form I always say....

I would look towards getting a more "professional" mounting solution.. but if it works for you..go with it!

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ummm..get an astro saber? lol there was something that I enabled on my saber 3 that limited the number of "Unique PL's" as motorola called it, I THOUGHT it was secure operation, but I cannot remember..... it MIGHT be something about the RSS ASSUMING it's 2K and not letting you put in more ...

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you might be right on the PL tones... I DO have selective PL, but IIRC...selective PL cannot be enabled if you have any secure modules installed/programmed

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120 channels or MODES and.. I wanna say 16 PL tones.... swap the housing and add a display.. easy as that..... same with the astro sabers...... if you have an AS1, drop on a display, and a new case....blow in an AS3 codeplug/srec and you're ready to go..... I have an Saber 1E, that I programmed as a...

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why not go with 4 or 6 Yagi's with a voter ??

best of both worlds....

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a crown vic is a little too high profile to be doing warrant service, IMO

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Others have reported using the 2000/XP command prompt to program their radios, so it's certainly possible. The comms test is not a reliable predictor of write failures. What I've commonly seen happen is when the RSS is actually able to make the serial connection, the read/write process tends to tak...

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I call BS.. if it was windows 98, or 95.. I'd say possibly.... but windows NT based products, IE NT,2k,XP use a TOTALLY different way of accessing the serial port.....which dos programs do not like at all....

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