Motorola astro 25 portable cps codeplug password

#Motorola astro 25 portable cps codeplug password mod#
#Motorola astro 25 portable cps codeplug password upgrade#
#Motorola astro 25 portable cps codeplug password software#

The part number for the HHCH for the XTS3000 Vehicular Adapter (XTVA) may be PLN7737A (unconfirmed). Only keyloaders with a model suffix DX or later will properly keyload an Astro, while BX & CX (as well as DX) models will work fine with a regular Saber.ДЇor keyloading, you use the same cable as a regular Saber, TKN8506, and the pinout is available here.

#Motorola astro 25 portable cps codeplug password upgrade#

The radio uses a third generation keyloader, there is a retro kit to upgrade the DES-XL key loader, and the data in and out pins are different. This causes problems since the center pin on the radio may not make contact and you will be transmitting into an open (bad). There are some cheap adapters that have a recessed center pin on the female side. Be sure that you use a high quality adapter if you are going to convert from the SMA to something else. Ports above 20 appear to cause issues and give errors such as 'Read Radio Failed.' If you encounter issues, try lowering the com port number of your virtual com port.Most of this information is for the Astro Saber, but since the XTS3000 and its family are programmed by the same RSS, a lot of the information will be relevant for it too.ДЄll these radios use a standard SMA connector for the antenna. Make these changes to the PatMob or PatPort executable files using your favorite hex editor.ДЄstro25 Tuner is known to have issues with reading & writing with higher COM port numbers. Configure these however you like per your FPP preference.

You should be left with a single FPP zone and 16 un-deletable conventional personalities.

Follow the above procedure for the remaining 14 zones (zones 2-15).

Now you should be able to delete zone 16.

Once you acknowledge the warnings and this is done, the 16 personalities assigned to that zone should be deleted and the codeplug structure will have been reopened. You should be able to uncheck the 'FPP Zone' field.

Starting with a codeplug that has all 16 zones set up for FPP (meaning you also have 128 personalities - yikes), the procedure to get to a single FPP zone is as follows: I don't know why Motorola decided to do it this way, but you can't just take any zone in the middle of the codeplug and make it FPP or non-FPP. The 'gotcha' here is that any FPP zone must be preceded by only other FPP zones. The way to do this is not immediately obvious however, as it may seem like all zones are locked as FPP only.

#Motorola astro 25 portable cps codeplug password mod#

The Astro Spectra Plus VCO will not lock on some frequencies far from its rated band and requires a hardware mod to allow it to lock properly at these frequencies.Д¬ontrary to other reports, it is possible to set up a radio running BN firmware (R10+) for only a single zone of FPP channels, as opposed to 16 zones with 16 channels each. This is done using the Hex-edit Method which works for many CPS distributions, and detailed information can be found on the information page.ДЄll Astro25 radios excluding the Astro Spectra Plus will tune to all frequencies in the amateur bands without issues.

#Motorola astro 25 portable cps codeplug password software#

If you have a radio whose bandsplit is outside the amateur bands (a UHF-R2 'S'-split radio for the 450-520 MHz band would be an example) you must modify the CPS executable to allow the software to accept frequencies which are out of band for the model. Astro25 Mobile CPS supports the Astro Spectra Plus, XTL1500, XTL2500, and XTL5000. The portable version of CPS supports the XTS2500, XTS4000, and XTS5000. These audio settings can be found in the Radio Configuration -> Radio-Wide -> Tx Audio Control Per Mode section of CPS.ДЄstro25 radios program using the Astro25 Portable and Mobile CPS Packages. However, as found through testing and tweaking by members of communications.support, there exists a much better setting for Astro25 radios that can make the transmitted audio from these units sound even better. The default settings are fine, and most people will have no complaints with the quality of audio from these radios. The latest firmware (as of ) is R20.50.08 for 8-meg BN radios and R09.00.41 for 4-meg AN radios.ДЄnalog and digital audio is processed by the audio DSP before it is sent through the RF section and transmitted. Earlier models of the XTS2500 and the Astro Spectra Plus are considered AN radios and are limited to the firmware version specified below. Several radios in the Astro25 line are considered 'AN' or '4-meg' radios and contain a smaller flash rom chip (4 megabyte vs 8 megabyte) and are more limited in firmware and feature support.