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- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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"
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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?
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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.
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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...