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NX-5200 locked by employer
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kayn1n32008
ØÆSØ Say it, say 'ENCRYPTION'
That likely means there have been no functions mapped to the buttons. You will need software to map functions to the buttons.
mmckenna
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I think you need to provide us with the FULL background story here.
What does the display say?
Will the radio transmit/receive?
Did it ever work correctly?
-if it did, what transpired around the time it stopped working
If your employer has locked the radio down, then it may be for a very good reason. Best thing you can do is ask the people that own the radio.
If your employer didn't lock the radio down, then some red flags are showing here.
Or, like Kayn said, they just are not programmed.
Either way, you have not provided enough information for us to help you out.
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I will second the point if the owner had wanted the radio to do ANYTHING different then he would had it done. You do not own the radio so you do not have the right to make changes to it. I was at the shop one day when a city radio I programmed came in a TK280 it had been setup with 12 channels in it by me. We heard that another agency had been having users on their system that did not belong. When I read this TK280 it had been programmed with over 100 channels by a second party I called the department supervisor he said put it back to his programming and password lock the TK280 the next day all the radios were in the shop being locked and the department supervisor found the man that had made changes and fired him.
mmckenna
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Nice. I discovered a local shop that was doing this with my old SmartNet system. Customer would lose a radio, I'd shut down the ID in SAC and then they'd complain about a bunch of their radios "bonking" when they'd try to transmit. Customer had a hard time explaining that one.
What does the display say?
>it says the name of the channel ive selected
Will the radio transmit/receive?
>yes
I just want it to stop beeping when I accidentally hit the buttons on the front.
mmckenna
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OK, got it.
If the buttons are not programmed, they'll just beep.
Since the radio belongs to your employer, you -really- should talk to them about this.
The only way you can fix this would be to purchase the software (expensive) and programming cable ($100 or so) and change it yourself.
Issue is that it's entirely possible that whoever programmed the radios put a read or read/write password on them. If that's the case, you'll be out a bunch of money on software and cables.
If it's a trunked system, you won't be able to do anything without system keys, and you won't get those except from the system owner, and they usually don't give them out.
So, short answer is no, you probably won't be able to fix this on your own. I'd recommend talking to your employer about this. It's not entirely uncommon for occasional changes to be made to radio systems, so it's possible that at some point in the future they may have to reprogram your radio. Asking them to fix this might be something they could take care of at that time. Also, some systems will do "over the air programming". If your system has that, they might be able to just reprogram your radio over the air without putting hands on it.
Either that, or get a carry case for the radio that covers the buttons. That would address the accidental keypress issue and wouldn't require messing with the programming.
If the buttons are not programmed, they'll just beep.
Since the radio belongs to your employer, you -really- should talk to them about this.
The only way you can fix this would be to purchase the software (expensive) and programming cable ($100 or so) and change it yourself.
Issue is that it's entirely possible that whoever programmed the radios put a read or read/write password on them. If that's the case, you'll be out a bunch of money on software and cables.
If it's a trunked system, you won't be able to do anything without system keys, and you won't get those except from the system owner, and they usually don't give them out.
So, short answer is no, you probably won't be able to fix this on your own. I'd recommend talking to your employer about this. It's not entirely uncommon for occasional changes to be made to radio systems, so it's possible that at some point in the future they may have to reprogram your radio. Asking them to fix this might be something they could take care of at that time. Also, some systems will do "over the air programming". If your system has that, they might be able to just reprogram your radio over the air without putting hands on it.
Either that, or get a carry case for the radio that covers the buttons. That would address the accidental keypress issue and wouldn't require messing with the programming.
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Had similar issues on Privacy Plus with towing fleets. Proactive monitoring would lead to hearing multiple voices, same RID. Solution was to disable the customer's talkgroup and all radio IDs. When the customer called, he was told he wasn't getting back on the air until all radios had been brought in for reprogramming (new TG and RIDs). It was made clear that if the customer cloned radio IDs again, they'd no longer be a customer and would be stuck with their Type II radios and no system to run them on. Good times...
MTS2000des
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^^^^^This.
Remember this is not your property. Not to beat a bloody horse, but this issue comes up quite often on these forums. The radio belongs to someone else.
It's logical you should get their permission before making any changes.
The system I manage we explicitly spell out in a written agreement that users shall not even read, extract or modify the data (codeplug) in any way, or allow others to without our written consent. In our case as a government, it can be a computer crime (felony). The customer have approved templates and we don't do "one off's".
Always ask for permission that forgiveness.
mmckenna
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And exactly the reason I use read & read/write protect on all our subscriber radios.
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