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Not to revive a topic previously beaten to death, but...

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Front panel programming.

I know it's never been seen on a spectra, except by one member who can't or won't produce it for examination.

However, I saw an XTS5000R today that was front panel programmable. I played with it a bit - input a frequency and a PL, then alpha-tagged the mode. Seemed to work like a champ.

Is this a production item, or a masterful hack job?
I gotta say, I was mighty impressed. (Except for the yellow case, that is.)

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I've never seen or heard of one that was keypad programmable but I would say it probably is possible. Was that radio owned by a U.S. Government agency?? I remeber hearing a few years ago about the guys who wrote the flash program for the Ericsson MPA radios to allow programming from the keypad and told a local about it who swore it could never be done! I suppose if you were a fairly good hacker and could write the proper program it could happen, but you would really need a lot of sensitive inside information of the radio's micro.

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Post by motor59 »

You da man, Jack!

I didn't think of looking there.

We can close this one down - all the answers are there.

Gotta start saving my pennies now.

BTW - this was NOT a gov't agency radio. Personally owned/parts built unit with (I guess) the right flashcode.
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the Hamflash does exist for the M-PA portables and I think even the M-RK.

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Post by RocketNJ »

Actually it was NOT a parts built radio. It had a legit Flash code amd serial number. The radio is available for certain alphabet government agencies.

As far as I know it is NOT available to the normal end users.
Also the XTS5000s are not hackable.

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Post by Cam »

RocketNJ wrote:Actually it was NOT a parts built radio. It had a legit Flash code amd serial number. The radio is available for certain alphabet government agencies.

As far as I know it is NOT available to the normal end users.
Also the XTS5000s are not hackable.

George
Not some much "for certain alphabet government agencies", thought that does sound good doesn't it. Everything I've heard and read indicates that the flash opitons was added in order to allow Motorola to have a radio to enter into Wildland fire bids.

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Yes - The Forest Service requires KB Programming

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I am a B/K and EFJ Dealer in Washington, D.C. B/K has the DOI Forest
Service Contract and if you want to bid you have to have KB programming and cloning. The B/K Army radio had to have this capability.

I am sure Motorola built a few for these customer but I don't think they
have any major contracts with these customers therefore the units are rare.

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