[Motorola] Spectra/Astro out of band programming

[Brandon]

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Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:52 PM
Subject: [Motorola] Spectra/Astro out of band programming


> Hello Listers,
>               Have just reprogrammed my Spectra/Astro with a hexed down
soft-
> ware.  It programs fine down to 440.000 MC now.  Rec is fine, but xmt will
only
> work at 443.900 and above.  Any lower freq causes it to indicate "FAIL
001"
> and no xmt power out.  What does this mean and how is it corrected?  Can't
seem
> to find an answer at Batlabs for this one.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>         Cliff

What VCO do you have? You may be passing the lower limit of the VCO and
pushing it out of lock. The only real fix is to find a range-2 VCO. I dont
think these lend themselves to adding or subtracting pads or trace lengths
to get them to rubber down.
Unfortunatly you are up aganst the same boulder I was here not long ago and
I had to purchase a new VCO from motorola. Even though I work at a MSS I
still got stabbed at $500.00 for the parts.

Good luck with this one, Spectras are a wonderful radio if you have deep
pockets!

Brad KA�SQO