Spectra Astro brick swap out- Consolette

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 9:01 am

Does anybody know if you can substitute an astro spectra brick for a non-astro brick in a consolette (DGT9000 remote only 800 mhz consolette)?

Thanks much.

Post by **wavetar** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:06 am

I don't think so. The Spectra consolette radio had different firmware in it to operate with the DGT9000, you couldn't even swap in a regular 'normal' Spectra. Also I've only seen the Astro Spectra work with the RCH3000 & MC2500 series digital remotes. They don't require RSS programming like the DGT9000 did, they get the mode names directly from the radio itself. But, I've never tried it or looked into it, so cannot say for sure it won't work.

Todd

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:56 pm

Thanks Todd for the info...i do believe you are right.

Post by **xmo** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:18 pm

When the Astro Consolette first came out the service manual you got was the same manual that shipped with the regular Spectra Consolette but they threw in a supplement: 6881081E65.

The supplement says: "Spectra Consolettes with L791 digital remote control are compatible with DGT9000 models L1650, L1651, and L1652. Astro Consolettes (W9 models) are compatible with DGT9000 models L1751 and L1752."

It also says that for Spectra models the mode names, etc. are programmed into the DGT9000 with the deskset RSS and for Astro models those are programmed into the radio [no programming is required for the DGT9000 used with the Astro Consolette]

One would conclude that the L16XX and L17XX DGT9000's have different firmware.

So DGT9000's are not all the same - nothing is ever easy with Motorola!

Post by **wavetar** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:50 pm

Thanks for the clarification XMO. I never realized there were so many different models of DGT9000!

Todd