[Motorola] Does RADIUS RSS work with MaxTracs?

[Zapper]

Michael Crestohl wrote:

> I have a buddy who has a Radius and the RSS to program it.  Since I
> understand the Radius and the Maxtrac are essentially the same radio except
> for the firmware I would like to know if the Radius RSS will also program
> the Maxtrac?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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Absolutly not. The only way to do this is change the radius firmware to Maxtrac
v-5.34 and blank the board using an authorized copy of Lab RSS. Attempts to
write a Radius by using the forced (get from archive and program without read)
will render the radio useless.

now if I could find a good genuine copy of LAB I would be in heaven!

I do however have some BINs of Maxtrac firmwares that were taken from a V-5.34
PROM so if you have a means of burning an EPROM (27C256) and can keep the
checksum this might help you out a little. This way you can make it a real
Maxtrac and take the proper bandsplit archive and cram it down the mic
connector.

Good luck on the quest

Brad