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firetech792

After having these Watchdogs for a few years now, they seem to be running neck and neck with the M5 on trips to the service depot. Although some one above mentioned the volume wasn't very loud, on ours they are much louder then the M5. Also, US Alert's turn-around time has slowed a bit in the past y...

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Don't know what your duty cycle will be but if its high, the PA will crap out on the transmitter radio eventually. I ran 2 CDMs on a temporary DPW repeater with 100 mobiles and it lasted a few months. Its since been changed to an MTR.

firetech792

[quote="911outfitters"]For any installers looking were to run wire out to the firewall. Drop the glove box down and look up at the firewall at the top right and you'll see a beige plastic plug their. What we do is use a 12" long paddle wood bit and hit the center of the plug. The plac...

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Looking for the part number for an APX7500 09 head accessory cable. This is the square jack on the back of the 09 head. All I can find is for the 03 and 05 but I'm guessing they might be the same. (HKN6160)
Thanks in advance

firetech792

Yup.....all the old pagers still work on our NB system. Just lowered audio. Even the old Plectron boxes still work. Save your money and use the old pagers till they die.

firetech792

Its an XTL1500. It must be the radio because a 2nd one I have reads and writes fine. Thanks for the info.

firetech792

I have the same exact problem with my HKN6184 round cable. My PC doesn't recognize it when I plug it in. But I can program the XTL radios with the square cable that plugs into the rear accessory jack just fine. Using the latest version CPS on an XP PC.

firetech792

Its not defective speakers. At least on the ones I've been sending back. The power-up tone and SV voice announcing is always nice and loud and clear. Just the receive signal is low and distorted. My agency just ordered a few hundred Watchdogs by US Alert after testing about 25 over the past year. Th...

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We've been trying a few dozen over the past year and very few problems. A few chargers broke, which they replaced. And one pager lost squelch. Otherwise they seem to work pretty decent. The main complaint I've heard about them is they are too big.

firetech792

I have an open 2A micro fuse in mine. Any one happen to have the part number for this fuse?

firetech792

We don't use "fixed alert". The volume still controls the low volume. Like I said above, its only the receiver audio. The power-up beeps are nice and loud as they should be. I also noticed sometimes on the "SV" pagers, they sometimes lose the "voice announcement" featur...

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They usually just swap the unit out.

firetech792

Any one else having problems? Out of the 500-700 pagers my organization uses, lately, I'm sending about 5 per week back to the depot with all the same audio issues. All are low and distorted speaker audio. But the power-up beeping is loud as it should be. Just receiver audio is low. The higher ups a...

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[quote="RadioSouth"]Really going back Kojack had a Bearcat III scanner with a microphone that he'd talk into.[/quote]

I remember that....
Also on an old episode of Kojak, they were talking on HT220 radios with no antennas!

firetech792

Thanks very much for the info.

firetech792

Looking for the cap code conversion chart that is in the back of the Centracom II service manual. We misplaced our manual and need to add a tone. I did a search and found some indusrty standard charts which isn't what I'm looking for. This was the actual Motorlola chart in the back of the service ma...

firetech792

Found this video on YouTube of the depot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvvukLZqKlc

firetech792

....thats what I thought.
Thanks guys

firetech792

Don't have a M5 manual and tried searching for part numbers on here. Looking for the front & rear housing part numbers. Or are these not available like the 4's?
Thank you
Pete

firetech792

I do get those warnings some times but I always hit F9, save workspace any way (or something like that)
Thanks again

firetech792

My RSS version is a 2.00
Radio is 4.02
Guess my RSS might be the issue. Thanks.

firetech792

Ok I'm confused. Programming this for some one. Have an HT1000 "D" model but it won't take the following freqs: 155.9175 and 156.0375 It rounds them off to a nearest freq. Any one have any clues? Maybe older firmware? I never ran into this before. Although these are new frequencies to me. ...

firetech792

Great thanks guys.

firetech792

ok, after reading different threads all morning, I'm confused. I have a few early version XTL5000 radios with the older "W" heads. Mid power, remote mount. I went to program one figuring I was going to use my "O" head programming cable and found its different. Can any one recomme...

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Thanks so much.
We have to order them from Motorola directly since we're a govt entity. But thank you any way.

firetech792

Looking for the part number for a Spectra mobile mic coiled cord. I've looked high and low on Batlabs and other sites.
Thank you in advance.
Pete

firetech792

I've used them a lot over the years for links. They take a beating. Some of my Maxar pa's would get so hot you could probably fry an egg on them and they never burned out.

firetech792

ok great. Thanks for the info. $495 is ok since its not my money.

firetech792

I have a stack of bad Astro Spectras (VSELP) that have built up over the years. Any one know if the depot still repairing these?
Thanks
Pete

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I still use one in my shop today........as a door stop

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Well, I jinxed myself. Just had an Astro Spectra come in today with the classic in and out audio and rumbling noise. Swaped it with another chassis to get the car back on the road. Haven't opened it yet but I'm sure thats what it is. I wonder if the depot is still fixing these.

firetech792

I have a fleet of 50+ Astro Spectras (mid power trunk mounts) in service since 1994 when they first came out. Haven't had a bad cap yet. The Spectras on the other hand, I'm starting to get bad ones with leaky caps about one every 3 or 4 months lately.

firetech792

I know all that. You totally misunderstood what I was saying.
I was referring to "about getting the $284 refund" was a joke. Meaning it would never happen.

firetech792

[quote]No you don't get a refund, you just download the new version.

Jim[/quote]

That was a joke

firetech792

Same thing here. I work in a public safety self maintained shop and never bricked a radio in my life until our new CDM CPS release was installed (06.10.04). I had to send (3) back in the last 6 months. A friend just told me there is a new version that just came out where this problem was fixed. (06....

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Avaya IP business phones we use at work are another big one. They generate all over the VHF band. And at a decent distance too.

firetech792

My fleet of Astro Spectras were purchased in 1994 (VSELP) and as Hartley said above, do narrow band but not the 2.5's.

firetech792

Just a wild guess but if your Maxtrac has the 16 pin accessory connector in the rear, make sure the black plug is there. There is audio jumpers in that plug. If the plug is missing, audio won't be jumped to the internal speaker. If the radio has the white 5 pin plug, then it won't matter wheather it...

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Case resolved.
Thanks all for the help and replies.
MODS, you can delete this thread.

firetech792

Can any one give me an idea of what it would cost to upgrade an XTS5000 host of R02.00.00 up high enough to do MDC encode? And also if some BatLabers can do it for a fee so I don't have to take it to my area Motorola dealer. My local dealer isn't experienced in this area. I already checked. I'd rath...

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Crystals are made to order and then soldered into the chennel elements. There is no programming. As n7maq said above, try Jan Crstals or many of the other crystal companies. Since you don't sound too up on this subject, you could call your local radio guy also.

firetech792

You have a long wait. Bidding just went out for the consulting/engineering. And its rumored to be a newer TDMA system.

firetech792

It uses crystals inside of elements.

firetech792

Yes, checked the switch. Its a brand new head.
After some of the feedback I have received, I'm starting to believe it might be an old firmware problem. Thanks for the suggestion Jim.
Regards
Pete

firetech792

No they're not the same batch of radios. There is about (3) different batches that were purchased over the years. This project wasn't a priority. We happen to have a new Astro Spectra rear kit and one of the fire chiefs thought it would be nice to have a remote head in the rear of his Tahoe. We'll m...

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Yup...its VSELP. We were one of the first to get it in 1994. We have about 60 AS mobiles. But we no longer use the digital. Its an anolog system only now. If its an issue of upgrading it to get the rear head to work, we probably won't since were going to change out all of our mobiles in the next 1-2...

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Flash- 400001-000000-1
Mod- T04KLH9PW9AN

DSP & host is not showing on the archive (radio isn't here)

CPS- R05.02.00

Thanks
Pete

firetech792

The vehicle is not here now. So I don't have the part numbers from inside the vehicle. This is an existing, hi power, working AS installed in a vehicle. The rear head kit is brand new from Motorola and was ordered after the radio. It includes the rear cable and the head, which is now in front of me,...

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I'm adding a brand new Astro Spectra head/kit to an existing, already installed AS radio in a fire chief Tahoe. I programmed the radio for dual head and plugged in the rear head. The rear head back-lites ( but no display) and can actually control the modes & volume on the front head. But no swit...

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This is a common problem with the HT1250. I've had a bunch recently that have had this problem. (Out of a fleet of about 80)And none got wet. Just normal use.

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