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nh7cy

Figured it wouldn't be that easy. Thanks for the info!

nh7cy

I believe I saw an old (2003ish) post on this but it had never been answered.

Is it possible to convert a 4ch M1225 to a 20ch M1225 with the proper software / hardware?

I only ask as I have a good 4ch radio and a 20ch parts radio with a bad board but a good head.

nh7cy

Hey Jim,

I'll check those out. Thanks for the info!

nh7cy

Anyone have any personal experience or know of any good radio techs, shops, garage hermits or whatever in the Minnesota Twin-Cities area? Basically looking for someone local who can do occasional alignments and firmware upgrades.

Tried searching on local channels with no results. Think I may have ...

nh7cy

May be there if I can find a hotel room and last minute plane tickets from San Francisco for a decent price. If I go, you'll be hearing from me on VHF P25.

nh7cy

Someone might want to check Dayton. Kind of a long distance, but you never know..

nh7cy

I remember selling a Spectra with an orange chassis a few years back. It was an 800mhz A7. It was indeed an ex-Fedex radio. I'll see if I can find a picture of it.

nh7cy

So I picked up a UHF W9 Spectra (one of the ex-LAFD radios). Only now have I found out that it's a dual control head radio. I only got one control head with the radio (it just occurred to me that I might want to check whether it is the front or the rear head). If it is the front head, is there any ...

nh7cy

Anyone know the part number for this battery?

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This was on my Astro Saber before I sold it but I have since picked up a new one. The company I bought the battery from no longer has it in stock (after looking through their catalog) and I'm ...

nh7cy

The invalid fields show up when you start deleting zones btw.

nh7cy

I'd say it is. Email sent.

nh7cy

Sent. Thanks again for all the help.

nh7cy

Basically, here's my problem in a nutshell..

nh7cy

PM recv'd, email sent. Definitely is weird, I went through every setting in the entire codeplug and can't seem to find anything to remedy it. I tried adding a DEK in the codeplug so I can undo whatever is wrong, but can't seem to figure it out.

nh7cy

When I open the radio codeplug, the DEK isn't even present under radio configuration. When I go to features > controls > etc on the drop down menu bar, I get DEK A, DEK B, DEK C, DEK D but they're all grayed out. I'm guessing the previous user had a DEK then removed it so when I went to read the ...

nh7cy

Thanks, I tried, but since CPS says I don't have a DEK the DEK-A page under controls is dimmed out and won't let me click on it.

nh7cy

I read my W9 this morning (haven't gotten around to programming it until today) and for some reason CPS thinks it has a DEK. Apparently all of the DEK buttons were programmed to select certain zones and channels on the radio so when I go to delete any extra zones that I don't need I get an invalid ...

nh7cy

Yes. You need to have special secret squirrel software (don't ask) and an srec from an VHF radio matching your target configuration (flashcode, model number, etc).

On the hardware side, you simply have to take out the vocon board from the uhf radio and place it in the vhf radio. Once that's done ...

nh7cy

I was under the impression R radios had a port on the back which allowed them to be pumped with an inert gas to keep the water out.

nh7cy

Yep, still in the Bay Area just in a different part of it. The radio was actually with someone else when it was taken to the radio shop. What I wrote here is the story I got. Got the radio back from him awhile back and it's been sitting on my desk. Not entirely worried if I can get it working or not ...

nh7cy

This is very sad news. My prayers go out to his family.

nh7cy

It was read with the latest cps when taken into the radio shop. The tech stated that whoever last programmed the radio had screwed up the programming.

nh7cy

A year or two back I picked up a UHF MTS off of Ebay. Seller stated that it "works great" and yaddi yadda. When I got the radio, it turned on, the knobs worked, it looked okay. But it wouldn't program.

The radio will go into test mode (I'll update with the firmware version when I get home but it ...

nh7cy

I have the feeling it is possible, channels go 1-2-2-2-2-2-2 when a 16ch knob is added in place of the 2ch one, though I haven't looked at the software in awhile. Is it as simple as simply adding more channels, or must one open up their favorite hex editor.

nh7cy

I've been wondering about cloning as well. I don't have the radio on me at the moment, but I'll try just that when I get it.

Thanks

nh7cy

Newer firmware revisions of this radio support status and messages. Older firmware revisions don't. I've had several of both.

nh7cy

nvm, just checked. no. darn.

nh7cy

that looks sexy, do they make them in the ht1250 style? i'm not a big fan of the bulky mini radios.

nh7cy

Awhile ago, I purchased an Mts2000 off of greedbay that supposedly *worked great when last programmed*. Upon programming it (it had been deprogrammed at the time of purchase), it was found that the previous owner had set a password in cps. By the time this was attempted, the seller had fallen out of ...

nh7cy

Flashcode: 000004-000000-6

BTW: All of this aside, will it work if all this information matches?

nh7cy

So i bought an MTS off of eBay and upon discovering my programming cable was dead i traded it off for a different radio. Only thing is, it looks like the MTS was programmed with CPS and of course, the person i sent it to and i only have RSS 6.07.

Basically I'm looking for a blank codeplug from an ...

nh7cy

after looking at the rf board on my AS i noticed a striking resemblance to that of a jedi board. im probably wrong here and i know for a fact that they're different. but would i be able to use a PA from a 403-470 jedi board on a 450-512 astro saber board??

probably not, but if anybody knows for ...

nh7cy

darn, makes me wish i still had all of my AS parts radios..

nh7cy

Hello All,

So I have come across an unusual problem. My Astro Saber seems to be draining my batteries even when its turned off. This is something I find rather frustrating as its not really all that fun getting to work and finding out that the radio you charged only hours ago has a dead battery. I ...

nh7cy

wish i got that lucky. got an mt1500 awhile back for about $20 off of ebay.

same condition, the radio had been run over, the controller board was bent but not broken, straightened everything out, but the radio wouldnt power on for anything.

probably some of the internal circuitry was stretched ...

nh7cy

darn..

well in that case, anybody want to trade a <i>working</i> mt1500 for a model III mts vhf?

i guess this one shall remain as one of my unfinished side projects

nh7cy

Ok so here goes with my ongoing mt1500 repair saga..

Awhile ago i received an mt1500 that had been run over by some very large vehicle

Outside, the radio seemed fine, in fact i'd even say it looked great.

Inside, was a slightly different story. The metal backing of the radio had bent and so had ...

nh7cy

hmm appearantly the fuse location <i>is</i> different on an mt1500, most of that diagram looked like the radio, though the location of the fuse in particular looked nothing like what the inside of my radio looks like.

i'll post pics in a bit when i can find batteries for my camera

nh7cy

not sure what band, when i got it, it was pretty damaged and the tags were unreadable. only way to find out would be to get the radio fixed and read the bandsplit in cps.

nh7cy

The fuse is located on the front of the housing, the same piece of plastic with the speaker attached. Follow the battery contacts to a green colored 'bead', this would be the fuse.

-Josh

are you sure this is for an mt1500 and not an mt1000?

the plastic housing for the mt1500 doesnt really have ...

nh7cy

anybody know where the surface mount fuse is located on an mt1500?

should be the same as a pr1500, and the xts1500 as they use the same boards.

i picked one up for pretty cheap off of ebay because it had been run over by.. well something big. so the radio doesnt turn on, obviously, and upon ...

nh7cy

why dont you just take two fans, attach them to the top and bottom of the radio and have one blowing air into the heatsink and one drawing the air out

if you think back to the simplest thing about fans and cooling is that fans do not blow cold air, its the fact that the air is constantly moving ...

nh7cy

well that just about settles it.

i want one..

or 25 if it comes with a free repeater..

nh7cy

hmm, thanks. that what i figured being that the waris battery has two sets of contacts. well, this radio wont be used in a grain silo or nuclear weapons manufacturing facility, so hopefully it should be okay.

i was just wondering as the original battery got squashed by a car, or atleast thats the ...

nh7cy

hello,

so is the mt1500 battery compatible with that of the ht1250 or any other waris series radios or do i need a whole new battery?

nh7cy

i think it was the terminal or one of those airport movies, or maybe it was the interpeter that seemed like a motorola commercial to me.

something about how every time someone used a radio, i think they were either xts's or ht1250's, they had it glued to the front of their face so the motorola ...

nh7cy

They were specially made sabers for the movie.... More info about them is on the board, sadly, no one has the part numbers for the cases.

-Alex

i remember posting about those awhile ago. jurassic park is the reason why i got into two way radios in the first place!

either it was those awesome ...

nh7cy

what a perfect opportunity to stock up on all of the old style LCDs you can get your hands on..

then corner the market.. 8)

so now im curious.. is there anything different about the new LCDs? does a new firmware flash mean more features? ie. lower case display letters, signal strength meter ...

nh7cy

911 education should also include a list of non emergency numbers for surrounding departments and counties.

i keep my cellphone populated with the direct numbers for highway patrol, each station in san francisco, and marin county, and fd.

its actually quicker than dialing 911 in most cases and the ...

nh7cy

look at greedbay and average out what the closing prices are for.

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