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Will wrote:Add the 'programming' leads to your existing connector and another jack for your programming cable.

I've considered doing this, but it would be more convenient to just have a front programming cable (I have 3 XPR-2500s that I can use it on). I may very well end up going this route though.

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Thanks very much for sharing that! I'll take a look, see if I can make something work, and report back.

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Does anyone happen to have/know the pinout for the PMKN4147 cable (for XPR2500 etc). It appears to just be a straight thru cable, and it pains me to drop $25 on something I can make here in 4 minutes. I've already made a rear cable, but for the radio that's mounted in my Jeep it's a pain in the butt...

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I'm happy with my 2500 so far. Had Enhanced Privacy and IPSC added to it and everything works great. My biggest beef? During a call the icons stay in place on the top line, which seems to truncate the alias of the transmitting radio down to about 6 characters (unlike the 4500 etc where the alias use...

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In theory it's likely possible... Good luck getting ahold of the Depot software to make it happen though.

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I've built a rear cable and it works just fine (just like previous mobiles). I haven't been able to find a pinout yet though for the mic port.

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Does anyone happen to have a VHF codeplug they could share? The sample the comes with the CPS is UHF...

Thanks!

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Are you only seeing this on the channel with Enhanced Privacy, or all channels? I have seen this happen on a channel using EP when signal is weak. I was doing some testing with a 6550 and a 4550, both using EP. As I approached the edge of the repeaters range I could seemingly TX with the 6550 (I cou...

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If both radios have the same ID, they won't talk to each other.

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If there is a hack, I would expect it to be fairly tightly held at this point.

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I'm a little late to this thread, but I've tried this on a few radios myself and it worked fine for me.

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Radios don't affiliate to Capacity Plus unless using ARS, so you might not see anything when a radio is turned on. Connect Plus uses forced affiliation however.

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On an XTL5000 you should be able to select from Red, Orange and Green by default as well as make your own custom colours. The XTL2500 on the other hand just offers the 3 RGB colours.

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Yes a closed padlock indicates he is transmitting with privacy enabled. I haven't heard anything about anyone cracking keys (not that it's likely to be advertised mind you!) There would be quite a few steps involved to brute force a key... capturing packets, finding the data in those packets that yo...

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I've had no problems just entering data for a single key (XTS2500 & XTL2500/5000).

Doesn't sound like the original poster entered anything for key data.

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The DSP can go up to R16, but the firmware can't go past R09 on the AN series. Radio still powers up and works though? You may have dodged a big bullet if so...

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I too have seen a few 6350's & 6550's that have no 'click' at all while turning the radio on/off. Obviously doesn't really affecting anything, but it's kind of annoying for some reason haha

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It seems like the quick and easy way to put a stop to this would be to re-key the radios. DMRDecode will show you technical details of TRBO transmissions such as colour code, slot, group code and radio ID's but does not decode audio of any sort.

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Motorola documents do admit that some degradation of audio quality may occur when using Enhanced privacy, but my ears can't tell the different. Clear/Basic/Enhanced all sound the same to me.

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Yes, 7.6 & 1.09.10 will play together just fine.

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Wow, nice to see that someone actually is in favor of the citizens being able to hear what's going on. Bravo! Have you noticed any issues with comms on talkgroups that have encryption enabled? There are several systems in my area (utilities as well as public safety) that have been using privacy, and...

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Does anyone know what type of connector is on the 7550's? I'd like to pick one up myself... but not being able to use the antenna on my truck would be a show stopper for now. I'm curious to hear the audio in comparison so a 4550/6550.

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Just reading some of the PR info about the new LCP. How does this differ from Connect Plus? Sounds like the same basic premise, multi-site wide area trunking... I must be missing something .....

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Pin #3. VBUS.

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Has anyone had success building a cable for portables? I've been trying to make one up for a friend... got an accessory connector for the side of the radio and have tried using the 4 pins suggested above with no success. I've found if I move ground to pin 1 I get the tones from the radio that you wo...

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I've had a few people tell me that it looks like this is indeed the case... these features are for the next series of radios. Boo

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I saw a Motorola Field Service Bulletin detailing some USB connection issues in firmware 1.06 thru 1.08.20, which is supposed to be fixed in 1.08.30 (due early Feb). Not sure if this would be causing your issues or not, but they recommend using a Windows XP machine for programming the radios as the ...

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Actually... I'm not seeing any of the new features. 5Tone signalling, Intelligent Audio etc etc. Should these not appear (or be available) after reading the radio with the new firmware installed?

Thanks!

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Has anyone tried the new Voice Announcement feature in CPS 7/FW 1.08.20? I've upgraded 2 of my radios (XPR6550's) and when I go to Device/Manage Voice Announcement I get an error saying 'unable to find applicable device(s) for voice announcement'. Then help file isn't, well, overly helpful. Perhaps ...

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I don't believe you can do that. Without using the proper Group ID's the radio will just ignore everything else... There is no digital CSQ that will allow you to hear everything. You will have to program in the Group ID's of the calls you want to monitor then assign them to a contact list, then assi...

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Yes you can. Wireshark does the trick for me.

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Has anyone had success building a cable for the portable Trbo radios? I have tried the simple usb cable posted above with out success. Can someone with a cable take a closer look? does it have all 12 of the pins populated? looking at some fuzzy pictures online some of them appear to only have the f...

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I should have been clearer on my original post... when I said everything was copied from another radio I meant as far as system settings, groups, frequencies etc. The radio ID was changed.

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Yes, everything was copied from a codeplug in another radio. I'm not sure what it was, but it's behaving itself now. I haven't had any issues basically since shortly after posting my original message. Thanks for all the suggestions!

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Hi all, I'm having a weird situation with a local Capacity Plus system that I am trying to monitor. I loaded all the system info into my radio's codeplug (setting everything to RX only, TX frequencies are all invalid for the system, ARS is turned off). Took the radio out with me and everything worke...

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Would anyone know where I could buy the accessory plug shown in the picture above for the mobile cable?

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Oh... duh. I figured it out. Too many lists in too many places in this CPS! haha edit... actually, no.. maybe I didn't figure it out. I see how you can put multiple capacity plus groups into a Capacity Plus RX Group List, then assign that list to a personality... but it doesn't look like you can sca...

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Does anyone know offhand if you can make a scan list for Capacity Plus contacts? It seems the only options to choose from are the regular analog and digital contacts.

Thanks!

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If they are using enhanced privacy and you have an improper key loaded you will hear garbled audio (at least I do with my radio). Also, if you have the correct timeslot, color code and group code selected you should see the radio ID's as each unit TX's. If you have a discriminator tapped radio you c...

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i bought the 100 dollar cable, check the pinpout and made a diagram. theres no electronics involved. no seeing an option to attach to the post so here is the link http://kd8eyf.org/images/mototrbo.PNG My cable for the portables arrived today and I too can confirm it's just a straight thru cable, ju...

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Try following my method that I posted above.. it's worked every time for me. Make sure you have wireshark and the pcap drivers installed and up to date. Connect your radio, start the CPS then switch to wireshark and start capturing on the Motorola network adaptor. Flip back to the CPS and hit Read t...

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Thanks for posting that! I broke down and bought a cable too (it hasn't arrived yet though). If it is a simple straight thru cable (like the mobile uses) then I will just resell the OEM cable and recoup my $$. Although it might be tricky to make a connector for the side of the radio.

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Has anyone tried building a homebrew cable for the portables? The one above works great on the mobile radios but it sounds like the portable cable is more complicated. Hate to drop $100 on a cable if I can build one myself with a spare USB cable.

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Thanks for the tips... I will give that a try!

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Anyone else have this? Every time I plug my TRBO radio into my PC to do any programming, I lose connectivity. For what ever reason Win 7 obviously wants to use the Motorola network adaptor instead of my regular ethernet adaptor. Anyone know any way to prevent this from happening? I've unchecked ever...

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Does anyone know if a DGP6150 can be loaded with North American firmware, or can at least be read/written with North American CPS?

Thanks!

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Did anyone have any success with the cable posted above?

Update: I can confirm the cable shown above for the mobiles does indeed work. Thanks!!

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Thanks for the info. There's actually a fellow selling conventional 800mhz MaxTracs on Ebay right now for $10 a piece. I'm going to grab a couple of those I think to tinker with, and I can always plop the eeprom from one of those radios into my current one to see if it fixes the problem or not.

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I've tried re-initializing it with both the Lab software and the conventional software with the same results. I'm really wondering if it's because I have the wrong firmware then... thanks for the info!

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Apologies for jumping into an old thread but I just attempted this same project, and have the same results. I bought a Trunking Maxtrac 820 and wanted to convert it to conventional 800mhz. The existing trunking firmware ( HLN9435D) was swapped out for conventional (FVN4019A) and I'm seeing similar r...

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