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Looking for GE Ericsson P400 / MPA hamflash / bpd files

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Hi! Got to get few GE Ericssons P402 = 68 - 88 MHz and looking the way to use it as P405 = 403 - 470 MHz.

Is it possible via using of mysterious ham flash? Are there any way to re-flash / adjust it?
All topics around this radio quite old due to it's age and most of links are dead.
I got serial programming cable scheme and DOS software.

Is it possible?

Thanks!
 

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No way to do that. The hardware in the radio you have is limited to the design band, no way to make it work on another band.
 
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Wow, I didn't even know they came in that bandsplit. But your pics bring back memories of waaaaayyy can when I was a police officer, and one day I found two brand-new, old-stock M-PAs for sale for $200 each. Still in the boxes. I snapped them up and that was when I started my radio-nerd hobby. After the local County radio shop told me that didn't have any of the software or equip to program them, I managed to find everything online eventually and order it all. And then my best friend and I had the best radios in the department.

Nowadays I'm more of a Motorola fanboy, but I still have a few M-PAs, at least one of which I remember hamflashing back in the day.

Anyway, sorry for the irreverent flood of memories. =)
 
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I have a very nice UHF M-PA (minus battery) good working radio
I could just never figure why they routed the speaker through the battery.

Up for grabs if anyone wants it.
 
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Memberries.....:unsure: I liked the M-PA. Great radio, weighed a short ton, but you knew it was SOLID and it could be used as a hammer if need be.
I replaced a few internal memory batteries on some of them.
Supporting them today would require a dedicated and concentrated effort of radio archaeology.

Incidentally, I found a complete copy of the ancient PST (EDACS 4) DOS software recently. It supports the M-PD and some other pre-Windows era models. Including the S-8xx control heads and Rangr radios. That was my setup back in the day. S850 on a Rangr in the car, M-PD portable. Great memories. But I never was able to get the M-PA vehicular adaptor to work properly with the Rangr UHF VRS I had. Documentation was sparse.
 
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