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Anyone farmiliar with Tait trunking radios?

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Tait 3040S2 (340-360MHz) handheld

when turned on it says

"programming mode
program database"

When connected to the COM port to program the radio,the display reads below

"ERROR!X32.The database for this radio is corrupted"
and the serial NO. of the radio

What is wrong with it?

Does anybody have the programming manual?

Thank you!
 
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It means that you need to completely reload with fresh database/software.. *Edited.. as this is not a trunking radio... not in that bandwidth... ... didn't know tait did mil air radios..... anyway.** You need new software.
 
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milf said:
It means that you need to completely reload with fresh database/software.. *Edited.. as this is not a trunking radio... not in that bandwidth... ... didn't know tait did mil air radios..... anyway.** You need new software.
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3040 is absolutly a MPT1327 trunking radio，aand it is not mil radio here in China.

Thanks all the same!
 
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Tait has a CD that has all the latest manuals, software, etc on it that tait reps usually have. Only trouble is that It seems to me that there are no reps around anymore.

I had that error message and the problem was that I needed OLDER software. The latest software corrupted the radio.

I thought it was going to be a "brick" until I got the older software--Even then the only way the radio took it was to start the download at exactly the same time you turned the radio on. If you let the radio boot up like normal it would lock out any downloads from the computer.
 
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Thayne said:
Tait has a CD that has all the latest manuals, software, etc on it that tait reps usually have. Only trouble is that It seems to me that there are no reps around anymore.

I had that error message and the problem was that I needed OLDER software. The latest software corrupted the radio.

I thought it was going to be a "brick" until I got the older software--Even then the only way the radio took it was to start the download at exactly the same time you turned the radio on. If you let the radio boot up like normal it would lock out any downloads from the computer.
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Thank you for the information!

I hava another Tait radio——Orca 5000 handheld which is locked down by the system controller and can not be pragrammed anymore,is there any way to unlock it?
 
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I don't know; you mean it was stunned or killed by a sent command, I assume?

If it was password protected, forget it.

You might try like I said before, dumping a new progam into it by sending it at exactly the same time you power up the radio--it worked for me after I messed up by trying to program an older orca eclipse with newer software.
You have to send the new program before the radio completely boots up and "realizes" it was stunned or had a correupted program loaded--

I sold both Taits I had because of problems like that and also the batteries were hard to get. They are big in europe and canada tho--
 
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I don't know; you mean it was stunned or killed by a sent command, I assume?

If it was password protected, forget it.

You might try like I said before, dumping a new progam into it by sending it at exactly the same time you power up the radio--it worked for me after I messed up by trying to program an older orca eclipse with newer software.
You have to send the new program before the radio completely boots up and "realizes" it was stunned or had a correupted program loaded--

I sold both Taits I had because of problems like that and also the batteries were hard to get. They are big in europe and canada tho--
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you are right,it was stunned(or killed as you said) by a certain command signal(do not remember the exact name) from the controller.

I am not sure whether it is password protected.The lcd just displays nothing but the signal strength after booting up.

I am wondering if I sand a UNLOCK(revive) command signal to the radio,will it be operational again?But the problem is how and where to get this signal.
 
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Ummm,.. with apologies,.. if its been killed that is because it affiliated on a system it was not athorized to affiliate on therefor if it IS supposed to be on siad system you will need the system's techs to "wake it up". If not no matter what you do every time it is awoken and turns on and again will try to affiliate,.. and once again if its not athorized to be on that system then it will be killed again... This is the same way a LOT of Motorola and Tyco/MA-Comm systems are designed. Go to love security protocols for Trunked Systems.
 
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Ummm,.. with apologies,.. if its been killed that is because it affiliated on a system it was not athorized to affiliate on therefor if it IS supposed to be on siad system you will need the system's techs to "wake it up". If not no matter what you do every time it is awoken and turns on and again will try to affiliate,.. and once again if its not athorized to be on that system then it will be killed again... This is the same way a LOT of Motorola and Tyco/MA-Comm systems are designed. Go to love security protocols for Trunked Systems.
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Not at all....:)

This ORCA 5000 was an authorised terminal in that system ,but was stunned one day while it is working.

Orca 5000 has the STUN & REVIVE function.The radio can be stunned when it is activated and can NOT be stunned when it is not activated. All of this can be set up in the programming software.

I think I need a way of waking it up except for receiving a UNSTUN command signal from the system.
 
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Find out what firmware is in the radio-hold ptt while switch on.

Generally this X32 database can be displayed after new firmware or corrupted database.
If using the incorrect users software it should not corrupt the radios current database.
You may have the incorrect "banding " but I am sure you have not overlooked that.
If it was a Chinese version Tait " could have made a dedicated programming software package for that radio.If this is the case you may not be able to do much in the current state.

You can download a later firmware and try that.
Regards
Brad
 
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