[TrunkCom] MTX-8000 Radio

[Earl Barfield]

> From: "Matthew E. Engelbrecht" <ad5bn@hotmail.com>
> To: "Trunkcom" <trunkcom@mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:10:13 -0600
> Subject: [TrunkCom] MTX-8000 Radio
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> I have an MTX-8000 radio that I am using at the City that I work at and they
> recently added two more repeaters to the trunked system that are in the
> 868.XXXX MHz range.  Previously they had only 856-860.XXXX MHz repeaters in
> the system.
> 
> My radio used to work flawlessly on the system until they added these two
> new repeaters in the 868.XXXX MHz range, and now I can not receive or
> transmit when the rotation takes the traffic to these two new repeaters.
> 
> The model number on my radio is as follows:
> 
> H01UCH6DB7AN
> 
> Is it possible that the radio does not go up to 868.XXXX MHz?!  I didn't
> think that Motorola would have only made the radio capable to go up to ~861
> Mhz?

Yes.


> If it is true, does anybody have any suggestons on how to open the radio up
> a little bit more to allow transmission/reception on the system?

Check out http://www.batlabs.com/mtsx.html.  Skip down to the section
labelled "Changing band limits in all MTSX RSS versions".


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