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Hi I purchased a mx2000 which is given to be the export model of the saber 2.

Anyone used out of band programming successfully as there are two splits lower stops at 433 and upper split goes down to 440.

Problem I have is my repeaters tx on 431 and rx 439.

Any other software to program these radios as I am told that a saber program will NOT program the MX series.

Brad
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Bradley

MMMMmmm,

I thought there was something weird with those MX1000 series radios on Ebay. One MX1000 a few weeks back had a 'man down' board and was in a secure body. All weird specs SP these radios apparently.

Usually the MX1000 series will go about the band split 5mhz if you are lucky. You will have to edit the CP to put in your frequencies out of band and pop them back in to the radio without viewing or reading them.

It seems as this is a Cross band (Up/Down band) radio.

I would suggest you would have difficulty with VCO lock as the tx would be 9mhz out of band and the rx 5 mhz. You wont be sure till you try but I doubt you will have any luck. Dont give up until tested however as even if the VCO locks you will have to check out the RX sensitivity.

Strange beastie, for conventional repeater/simplex use for sure. I am sure if this was a standard Up/Down band Tx/Rx split it would do what you wanted.

Regards Uncle Tom

The MX2000 is a excellent radio. There are two ways to program the radios behind their rated bandsplit:
1. With a modified version of the MX1000 series fieldprogrammer. It allows direct entry of the out-of-band-frequencies.
2. Inserting of the out-of-band-frequencies by using a hex-editor.

I have a lot MX1000/2000/3000`s in use for UHF-HAM-radio and they work without problems on 431Mhz (repeater-inputs).

But it seems you have one of those strange dutch or danish splitband (TX: UHF lowband, RX:UHF highband) radios. The only way out is to replace the PLL module with a UHF highband (440 - 470Mc) type and overwrite the already programmed file with an UHF highband-file. If you are using only repeater-frequencies, you can stay with the UHF-lowband (403-433Mc) PA-module.

Keygun

Keygun wrote:.
But it seems you have one of those strange dutch or danish splitband (TX: UHF lowband, RX:UHF highband) radios. The only way out is to replace the PLL module with a UHF highband (440 - 470Mc) type and overwite the already programmed file with an UHF highband-file. If you are using only repeater-frequencies, you can stay with the UHF-lowband (403-433Mc) PA-module.

Keygun

I never heard of a TX lowband/RX highband with the MX1000 series....
The one's i now are 403-433MHz or 440-470MHz, there is an other radio (HT800) that can have the odd bandsplit that you discribe: 425-429MHz TX/440-446MHz RX...
The MX1000 series is easy to get out of band but if you go beyond 5MHz or so they become pretty deaf
There is some RSS that let you program a 440-470 radio as a 430-470 radio...
Good luck!
GJ

I never heard of a TX lowband/RX highband with the MX1000 series....GJ [/quote]



Yup, they really exist

Keygun