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Astro Saber out of band

smorris

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I'm trying to take an Astro Saber from 450 to 440MHz using the HxD editor. I have the codeplug open in the background. I'm searching for all occurences of 8074D21A for 450, and replacing with 00DE391A for 440. When I proceed, I get a dialog box saying that 8074D21A(450) can not be found. It is an S split radio(H04SDF9PW7AN). Does anyone know what I must be missing here? I have experience hex editing XPR's, first time with Astro's
 

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I'm trying to take an Astro Saber from 450 to 440MHz using the HxD editor. I have the codeplug open in the background. I'm searching for all occurences of 8074D21A for 450, and replacing with 00DE391A for 440. When I proceed, I get a dialog box saying that 8074D21A(450) can not be found. It is an S split radio(H04SDF9PW7AN). Does anyone know what I must be missing here? I have experience hex editing XPR's, first time with Astro's
Try programming with the stock software and determine the lowest frequency the SW will permit you to enter. My guess it is a bit lower than 450 MHz. Do same for TX and RX. Use those values in Hex in your search and replace with your new values. Do make a backup of the SW.
 

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Try programming with the stock software and determine the lowest frequency the SW will permit you to enter. My guess it is a bit lower than 450 MHz. Do same for TX and RX. Use those values in Hex in your search and replace with your new values. Do make a backup of the SW.
I think you’re right. As is, the Astro Saber will go down to 445.
 

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You edit the CPS, not the codeplug. The band limit changes become permanent and you can then push ANY such radio out of its factory band limits.
It's been so long since I've done it, I'm pretty sure it'd take me a while to remember it all and probably have to Google search it to be sure. And you can do that, too.

The process is the same for the MTSX CPS. I adapted those principles to the Astro Saber CPS and found that it worked.
 
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