ZS6HZ
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I thought I'd quickly post about something that I found out today, and hopefully you can use this info yourselves at some stage.
I am running a Mototrbo network and using Neocom Trbonet Enterprise as dispatching/control software. The Trbonet Server and the Dispatch software are on the same PC, and so is the Mototrbo CPS.
The Trbonet is set to send SMS notifications when an alarm occurs, and this means that Nokia PC Suite has to be running as well.
I tried to reprogram all the DP-4400's on the network, and started getting really weird issues with CPS that I'd never experienced before.
The CPS would intermittently:
Report that the password was invalid
Report that a radio I'd just read could not be written or cloned
Just get to 19% of reading and then freeze
Not see the radio at all
Sometimes see a radio, but then lose it after I hit "read"
Freeze while writing a radio
Eventually I disconnected the Nokia cellphone used for the SMS notification as well as the PC Suite software and things returned to normal except for one specific radio that just wouldn't get past the password stage so I couldn't read it, and trying to overwrite it with another codeplug wouldn't work as it kept reporting an incorrect model number (which was not the case).
After struggling for a good hour, and wracking my brain to figure out what the problem was, I removed the programming cable from the radio and wiped the contacts on the radio and the cable.... BINGO.
The contacts must have been dusty or grimed with oil or sweat or something, because after a good cleaning everything worked fine. They looked perfectly clean though before I wiped them, so contact must be quite tenuous at the best of times.
I hope this saves you all a bit of time if you get the same problem.
I am running a Mototrbo network and using Neocom Trbonet Enterprise as dispatching/control software. The Trbonet Server and the Dispatch software are on the same PC, and so is the Mototrbo CPS.
The Trbonet is set to send SMS notifications when an alarm occurs, and this means that Nokia PC Suite has to be running as well.
I tried to reprogram all the DP-4400's on the network, and started getting really weird issues with CPS that I'd never experienced before.
The CPS would intermittently:
Report that the password was invalid
Report that a radio I'd just read could not be written or cloned
Just get to 19% of reading and then freeze
Not see the radio at all
Sometimes see a radio, but then lose it after I hit "read"
Freeze while writing a radio
Eventually I disconnected the Nokia cellphone used for the SMS notification as well as the PC Suite software and things returned to normal except for one specific radio that just wouldn't get past the password stage so I couldn't read it, and trying to overwrite it with another codeplug wouldn't work as it kept reporting an incorrect model number (which was not the case).
After struggling for a good hour, and wracking my brain to figure out what the problem was, I removed the programming cable from the radio and wiped the contacts on the radio and the cable.... BINGO.
The contacts must have been dusty or grimed with oil or sweat or something, because after a good cleaning everything worked fine. They looked perfectly clean though before I wiped them, so contact must be quite tenuous at the best of times.
I hope this saves you all a bit of time if you get the same problem.