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by webby52
Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:48 am
Forum: ASTRO25 Series (XTS/XTL 1500/2500/5000) Subscribers
Topic: O5 to O3 control head swap?
Replies: 14
Views: 13517

Re: O5 to O3 control head swap?

Conversion kit? They are supposed to be plug and play. Its a blue connector into the TIB.
by webby52
Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:20 am
Forum: ASTRO25 Series (XTS/XTL 1500/2500/5000) Subscribers
Topic: O5 to O3 control head swap?
Replies: 14
Views: 13517

Re: O5 to O3 control head swap?

I am trying to swap an O5 head to an O3, but whenever I plug it into the TIB the radio shuts off. I thought the CH Synch was the issue but it will not allow me to plug in the O3 head during the process. Running fw r20.50.05 dsp 19.50.01 XTL5000 remote mount. Works fine with the O5 head. BTW I even t...
by webby52
Tue May 23, 2017 9:23 am
Forum: APX Series Subscribers
Topic: CPS BUTTON PROGRAMMING ISSUE
Replies: 1
Views: 2856

CPS BUTTON PROGRAMMING ISSUE

I am trying to add a Zone Up/Zone Down button on the side of a APX6000ex portable. It works fairly well with the XTS2500 radio where when in Conventional channel in our A Bank, channel 2, you press the button and it goes "up one zone" which puts it on our main trunk channel 2. When you wan...
by webby52
Mon Mar 27, 2017 4:03 am
Forum: APX Series Subscribers
Topic: APX Firmware
Replies: 2
Views: 3234

APX Firmware

I have a fleet of APX 6500 mobiles that are still running R08.05.05 firmware. I have to update the codeplug with some new changes and was wondering what is the preferred way to upgrade the mobiles. Can I do it all in one bump right to R15.12? Or should I do it in gradual steps? If so two steps or a ...
by webby52
Tue May 10, 2016 12:40 am
Forum: ASTRO25 Series (XTS/XTL 1500/2500/5000) Subscribers
Topic: XTS1500 EEPROM Fail 01/82
Replies: 3
Views: 2992

Re: XTS1500 EEPROM Fail 01/82

Wrote a new codeplug with depot. Upgraded the firmware. Pushed new codeplug multiple times... still fail 01/82...
by webby52
Sun May 01, 2016 11:24 am
Forum: ASTRO25 Series (XTS/XTL 1500/2500/5000) Subscribers
Topic: XTS1500 EEPROM Fail 01/82
Replies: 3
Views: 2992

XTS1500 EEPROM Fail 01/82

I have an XTS1500 UHF 450-512 that all of a sudden went into FAIL 01/82 on display. Obviously an EEPROM error and thru my limited searches seems sometimes a fresh codeplug may recover it. Now of course I always save a fresh CP on a new radio before I program one, but this radio was programmed in 201...
by webby52
Wed Oct 28, 2015 12:37 am
Forum: Radio Programming
Topic: MDC ALIAS
Replies: 2
Views: 2411

Re: MDC ALIAS

Think I found it...Display and Menu...Advanced...Temporary message display...
by webby52
Wed Oct 28, 2015 12:05 am
Forum: Radio Programming
Topic: MDC ALIAS
Replies: 2
Views: 2411

MDC ALIAS

Is there a way to increase the amount of time the radio will id the Alias data on the screen? I can hear someone call on radio but by the time I'm able to look at display the ID is already gone. XTL5000 with O3 head P25 Trunking system
by webby52
Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:31 am
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 Patch
Replies: 12
Views: 4203

Re: MIP5000 Patch

So an update to this issue, I've had a lot of time on my hands apparently. I've been reading the help menus and found a setting called "hangover delay". I went into the the MIP5000 CSDM>Radio Channel Parameters>TX/RX>Hangover Delay. The default setting is 2000 ms and I changed it to 500 ms...
by webby52
Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:31 pm
Forum: APX Series Subscribers
Topic: APX 7500 with 07 head not responding to ignition sense
Replies: 1
Views: 2170

Re: APX 7500 with 07 head not responding to ignition sense

Split head? Make sure the yellow wire harness is connected to the back of the control head not the brick. Check the APX cps "radio wide/features/ignition switch" set for "soft power off"
by webby52
Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:50 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 Patch
Replies: 12
Views: 4203

Re: MIP5000 Patch

Attempted to connect consoles APX7500 (trunk) to consoles CDM1550 (repeated conv) using a RICK. Even with the COR delay still ping pongs. The initial feeling is the delay from when the canopy system translates the audio heard from the satellite site it locked onto to the spectra tac it takes too lon...
by webby52
Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:52 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 audio volume control
Replies: 8
Views: 3623

Re: MIP5000 audio volume control

Talked to Moto...they say..hmm...that would be a good feature...too bad MIP doesnt offer it.
by webby52
Sat Mar 28, 2015 1:56 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 audio volume control
Replies: 8
Views: 3623

MIP5000 audio volume control

Is there anyway to lock out the volume settings for the console? We have people lowering certain resources they don't want to listen to, or even muting the channel, and then missing audio. I know I can set the low volume setting in the APX radio from 0 to whatever so the volume can't go below a cert...
by webby52
Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:25 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 Patch
Replies: 12
Views: 4203

Re: MIP5000 Patch

So a friend suggested to disable the remote sites and just leave up the main site where the repeater is. I did this and was able to patch with no issues. Whether I can start to bring up the other locked out sites is doubtful. I can only imagine that when the spectra tac is polling for sites to pick ...
by webby52
Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:49 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 Patch
Replies: 12
Views: 4203

Re: MIP5000 Patch

So any suggestions on the hardware needed to resolve the issue?
by webby52
Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:10 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 Patch
Replies: 12
Views: 4203

MIP5000 Patch

Looking for some advice, Have just switched from a repeated conventional uhf system to a county trunked system now using a new 2 position MIP5000 with 11 resources. The trunked system has left us with some coverage issues and the whole low power footprint from FCC doesn't help. The issue at hand is ...
by webby52
Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:29 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 echo woes
Replies: 2
Views: 2178

Re: MIP5000 echo woes

Update - purchased the Omnicron electronics RSA-U5 and placed at the amp for the pa system. Echo gone. Replaced the CDM with another CDM known to be working well and no issues so far over a week. Still no emergency tones going over the console but at this point small sacrifice. The audio is horrible...
by webby52
Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:58 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: APX 4500
Replies: 2
Views: 2444

Re: APX 4500

J2 is located on the back of the transceiver. Table 7-38 describes the function of each pin. The Male
crimping pin can be ordered, according to the wire gauge for the accessory. Please select part
number 3980034F03 for 22-28 gauge wire and 3980034F01 for 18 to 20 gauge wire.
by webby52
Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:52 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MIP5000 echo woes
Replies: 2
Views: 2178

MIP5000 echo woes

So our new 2 position mip console is finally online, and although there have been a few issues we have been able to pull the transmit and receive audio directly off the accy connector (21/23) for logging and station audio...(this allows us to hear the dispatcher regardless of which console is transm...
by webby52
Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:21 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX-7500 Recorder Output
Replies: 22
Views: 8529

Re: APX-7500 Recorder Output

Really? Do you have the rear accessory cable connected to a console? Ours is connected to the digital gateway and there is no longer audio sent to the control head. The speaker stops working and all. When I unplug the rear cable disabling the connection to the gateway, the audio then emits from the ...
by webby52
Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:14 am
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX-7500 Recorder Output
Replies: 22
Views: 8529

Re: APX-7500 Recorder Output

Bought the cable but still no analog audio in remote head when radio is hooked to MIP 5000 via rear accessory cable when plugged into gateway. Unplug rear cable and audio is present. So the question is can you pull the audio off pin 21 while the MIP 5000 is using the same audio to the console? I nee...
by webby52
Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:58 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

So after four days of banging my head against the wall... We think maybe there is an issue with the P25 system. The fire/ems console is connected directly into the system via ip. The emergency pops up on their console with no issues. On the fire response talk group the emerg button works flawlessly ...
by webby52
Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:55 am
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

MIP release 4.2 actually. Firmware R11.05.01
by webby52
Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:37 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

P25 trunking. If I press orange button nothing happens on console. Though the fire dispatch center gets it on their zetron no problem. If I press orange button "emergency" flashes on portable display and then PTT the MIP5000 will show the alert with no sound. Perplexing. Now if I press the...
by webby52
Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:42 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

Interestingly emergency works fine on conventional resource which runs off cdm1250.
by webby52
Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:34 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

The Apx is brand new. Remote cap on chassis mounted in a tray with 2 other Apx. MIP 4.0. Brand new install. P25 trunk system.
by webby52
Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:34 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

Apparently just an APX7500 not a consolette.
by webby52
Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:19 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

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by webby52
Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:07 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

Got radio to ID. Radio wide setting in CPS. But still no emergency alert on console. If you press the Emerg button and then PTT it will alert on console. Small victory as the fire/ems console across town gets the emergency as soon as you press the Orange button.
by webby52
Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:40 am
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

Re: APX 7500 MIP5000

Digital gateway, its a consolette I guess. I was able to get the caller id to un-grey, as it must be enabled in the control panel apparently. Still no emergency IDs.
by webby52
Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:19 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX 7500 MIP5000
Replies: 17
Views: 5006

APX 7500 MIP5000

Brand new install of MIP5000. Can't get the 3 APX7500 resources to ID anything nor will they go into emergency when one is pressed from a subscriber unit. Other consoles in different Comm Center trips the emergency ID when pressed so I know its not a subscriber issue. Also the Caller ID option is gr...
by webby52
Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:35 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX Emergency on power-up
Replies: 5
Views: 2986

Re: APX Emergency on power-up

There is a David Clark wireless headset wired into the brick in the trunk, and the X10D is wired into the single remote head up front using a stock accessory connector though the X10s wire mockup. I've disconnected the X10 harness from the charging base, with no luck...but I'm gonna yank the X10D ou...
by webby52
Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:57 pm
Forum: General Motorola Solutions & Legacy Radio Discussion
Topic: APX Emergency on power-up
Replies: 5
Views: 2986

APX Emergency on power-up

APX 6500 installed with remote head. Mistakenly pressed man down button on a remote speaker microphone attached to the accessory port on the back of the remote head. (http://www.wirelesscorpltd.com/solutions/wireless-pacific/x10dr) Was able to clear emergency from the remote mic with a long press bu...
by webby52
Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:11 pm
Forum: Radio Programming
Topic: APX 6500 Scanning issues
Replies: 3
Views: 3054

Re: APX 6500 Scanning issues

HUB suspends scan...works great now...guess the mics on the dual head aren't grounded in the back of the truck.
by webby52
Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:17 am
Forum: Radio Programming
Topic: APX 6500 Scanning issues
Replies: 3
Views: 3054

Re: APX 6500 Scanning issues

Nope I have the scan list selected for both the trunking and the conventional personalities.
by webby52
Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:46 am
Forum: Radio Programming
Topic: APX 6500 Scanning issues
Replies: 3
Views: 3054

APX 6500 Scanning issues

Took /\/\ software class online for APX last summer and just started playing around with codeplugs last couple of weeks. Issue I'm having is I have 7 banks of trunking and conventional channels. I added the seventh bank with one trunk channel and several conventional channels. (all the other banks a...
by webby52
Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:36 pm
Forum: Radio Programming
Topic: Call List Import
Replies: 3
Views: 3108

Re: Call List Import

Wow thanks...how bout XTS?
by webby52
Mon Jun 09, 2014 3:02 pm
Forum: Radio Programming
Topic: Call List Import
Replies: 3
Views: 3108

Call List Import

Does anyone know if its possible to import an excel based MDC/Trunking call list into either the APX or Mototrbo CPS? We have about 200 units and it would be a hassle to enter by hand when I already have it in a spreadsheet.
by webby52
Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:35 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Combining dispatch and tac freqs
Replies: 7
Views: 9261

Re: Combining dispatch and tac freqs

Thanks for the insight. Much appreciated.
by webby52
Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:56 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Combining dispatch and tac freqs
Replies: 7
Views: 9261

Re: Combining dispatch and tac freqs

The ops channel is recieved via a 2 channel PTP600 system (1 ch uhf/1 ch vhf) voted into a comparator then the audio is fed into the Quantar on the recieve side (154.71)of the repeater. It then transmits (155.52) using the antenna I want to use with the combiner. The new MTR I want to use (conventio...
by webby52
Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:36 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Combining dispatch and tac freqs
Replies: 7
Views: 9261

Re: Combining dispatch and tac freqs

dispatch is 154.13 ops is 155.52...seems like its the same amount to have the climbers and the cost of the antenna/cabling. FCC license allows me to transmit at 100W on dispatch and 50w on ops.
by webby52
Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:51 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Combining dispatch and tac freqs
Replies: 7
Views: 9261

Combining dispatch and tac freqs

I would like to add an MTR2000 (dispatch channel) to my tower site without spending $3000 to have the tower guys come out to install an additional antenna. Would it be possible to just install a combiner so the Dispatch base (new MTR) would use the same VHF antenna that is currently on the tower? Th...
by webby52
Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:35 am
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Centracom Gold Elite Tones
Replies: 2
Views: 1116

Centracom Gold Elite Tones

We have a Centracom Gold Elite that is connected to an MTR2000. We are the primary police dispatching entity, but transfer our ems and fire calls to other agencies for dispatching. Those agencies use Z-tron consoles. Z-tron consoles send pages correctly, siren then pager. We are the backup for both ...
by webby52
Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:02 am
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Centracom board issue
Replies: 9
Views: 2106

Re: Centracom board issue

So I'm not reciving audio because the board is bad or its setup for trunking not conventional?
by webby52
Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:22 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Centracom board issue
Replies: 9
Views: 2106

Re: Centracom board issue

WIth the daughter board on the main board it seems the slot isnt wide enough to slide it in and not make contact with the next board.
by webby52
Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:22 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Centracom board issue
Replies: 9
Views: 2106

Re: Centracom board issue

WIth the daughter board on the main board it seems the slot isnt wide enough to slide it in and not make contact with the next board.
by webby52
Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:00 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Centracom board issue
Replies: 9
Views: 2106

Re: Centracom board issue

From what I could find on the web the daughter board was for tone generation. Motorola Radio Control Module BLN6654D 84D84315T04+84E82016R01
by webby52
Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:47 am
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: Centracom board issue
Replies: 9
Views: 2106

Centracom board issue

I procured a presumed working BLN6654 board that I installed for a new radio install to our console. It uploaded ok, and I can transmit with it on the console, but there is nothing coming out on the recieve side. Swapped in another card, works great. All the jumpers are switched to the same as the w...
by webby52
Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:41 pm
Forum: Base Stations, Repeaters, General Infrastructure
Topic: MDC1200 on Centracom Gold Elite
Replies: 7
Views: 2395

Re: MDC1200 on Centracom Gold Elite

Thanks for the info. Finally got my dealer to come out and install new radio. While he was there I added the BLN6654 to the upper cage, and MDC boards connected with the ribbon cable. When I plug them together, there is no green light on the board. (either one of the 2) When I plug in a BLN6654 that...
by webby52
Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:41 pm
Forum: Legacy Batboard Motorola ASTRO (VSELP/IMBE/AMBE) Equipment Forum
Topic: XTL 1500 CALL LIST
Replies: 1
Views: 1831

XTL 1500 CALL LIST

So the Chief orders 13 XTL 1500 mobiles with the expectation that they will replace the MCS2000 units in the cars. Display is tiny, only has 48 channels, and ok I can deal with that, but why is the MDC Call list limited to only 10 ID members? I have 28 cops to ID and as far as I know, you can only a...

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