[Motorola] Spectra

Sat, 11 May 2002 10:54:22 -0500

Boy, would I love to get my grabbers on one of those!!!!!!!  Did that
come out of federal service, Glenn?

Elden

On Sat, 11 May 2002 00:31:40 -0400 Glenn Little <[email protected]>
writes:
> I recently got a High power VHF Spectra.  This radio has the 
> interface box, 
> the secure module and the control head on thhe microphone.  The 
> radio is 64 
> channels.  When viewed with the RSS, it implies that the radio is 
> 128 
> channel capable.  However I cannot find a place to change the number 
> of 
> channels fron 64 to 128.  Is there a trick to do this or am I 
> missing 
> something?  The microphone does not have a switch for talkaround 
> (maybe I 
> do not need it). There is a switch for secure.  Can this switch be 
> reprogrammed for talkaround?  Can the secure box and the interface 
> box be 
> eliminated?  Al that I think that I need is the radio and the 
> microphone/control head.  Can another control head be used with this 
> radio, 
> or is the radio unique enough that only the microphone/control head 
> will work?
> 
> A lot of questions.  This is my first commercial synthesized rig.  I 
> do not 
> want to destroy the codeplug in the radio. I see that the data is 
> stored in 
> EEPROM and that the processor is a 68HC11.  Is it possible to remove 
> the 
> EEPROM and reprogram it in an external programmer to change the 
> personallity of the radio?
> 
> Thanks
> 73
> Glenn
> WB4UIV
> 
>
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