My fire department has an old Astro Spectra Plus W4 built into its main vehicle. The radio still has frequencies programmed into it from the department we bought it from and we wanted to program it to function on the Provincial Fire frequency. I was wondering what it would take to reprogram it and where to get required software and tools.
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Astro Spectra Plus W4 Reprogramming
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RKG
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If you only have one radio, and you're only going to program it once, it would be far more efficient to have either a radio shop do it for you or, perhaps, see if a neighboring department is a self-maintainer with a tech qualified person on staff. The hardware and software for programming the radios is expensive, and using it requires a degree of experience.
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Astro spectra plus cable is $143 USC
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