O5 --> O3 XTL5000

[XTS5000wellesleywv]

Let me know if that's what it was.

A good lesson is to bring everything up to a standard level of fitment.

1. I bring all my radios up to a known good firmware level (or in this case with the XTLs - the last. In the XTLs I make sure that I match up the control head versions as well)
2. I wire all my accessory port pigtails the same way (at least on the output end) I give myself access to the serial lines, ign sense, speaker and a single GPIO (to start).
3. I place programming pigtails where appropriate on remote mounts. Remote mount can be in the trunk, but I want to be sitting in my comfy heated seat when I have to program it.
4. I standardize my personal codeplug layouts.
5. I program 99% of my physical buttons the same way.

My minimum standards level would have caught what you found in #2.

Glad you (probably) have it sorted!

Not 100% sure- I won’t be able to read either radio in the CPS for a bit but I’m fairly certain this is it. Thank you so much for the standards list; I’ll adopt those as my own now. I’ve been doing this for about 10 years now yet clearly still making beginner errors. If only there was a full manual on Astro Portable/Mobile CPS & APX CPS- I’d read them all!

 

[MTS2000des]

There is: it's called the APX Subscriber Academy, they give you a huge three ring binder full of good info. They had one for Astro 25 back in the day.