ASII Questions!

trioxide · Post by **trioxide** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:04 am

Hey Guys,

I finally got my Astro Saber II programmed up. Thanks heaps to everyone at batlabs for collating this great resource!

Some questions

1) As far as I can tell (and I'm very new to the RSS) I've turned off everything to do with encryption keys. When I turn my radio on, I get the message KEY FAIL. I don't want to use encryption of any type. How do I stop this message from comming up?

2) My bandsplit ends at 470.0000MHz. I'd really like to be able to RX and TX (very low power is fine!) at around 477.0000MHz (Australian UHF CB). I've done the RSS bandsplit hack, but the recieve is pretty much deaf and the the radio bombs out with "FAIL 001" when I hit PTT.

Can I use the RSS SERVICE mode to make my AS2 happier at this end of the band? If so, what should/can I do without damaging the radio? I have no use for the lower part of the band so I don't mind sacraficing performance down there.

Can I replace the RF board in my AS2 for the right band? What sort of price would I have to pay and could I do this myself?

Thanks in advance,
'Oxide

USGOVTECH · Post by **USGOVTECH** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:47 pm

(1) In the RSS Turn of Secure Hardware Equipped field.

(2) The bandsplit hack should work just fine

trioxide · Post by **trioxide** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:29 am

USGOVTECH wrote:(1) In the RSS Turn of Secure Hardware Equipped field.

(2) The bandsplit hack should work just fine

I managed to get the KEY FAIL message to dissapear! But I still cannot get the 477TX to work. The radio just won't TX above 470. I've changed the TX VCO crossover with no change. Is there anything else I can do? Anyone?

Victor

Post by Pj » Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:01 am

Obviously the radio is rated for its split. Some radio's will perform well outside of the upper band, some just don't.

You could try to take it to a shop and have it hooked up to a monitor and try to get it tuned up higher, but chances are, it won't... Try several different freq's. I have seen radios die +/- 1 mhz highter than its rated split and not work, but 5Mhz higher than the split worked.

Fuel4300 · Post by **Fuel4300** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:06 am

I have an AS2 403-470 and I was able to get it to operate around 480 in both analog and digital with no problem. I doubt it would go much further than that - the most I heard was 15 mhz in either direction.

Mike