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XPR 5580 33cm ham band
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N4KVE
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Just bought one earlier this week. Before saying “I’ll take it” I specifically asked the seller what the FW version was, & if it was ever programmed with CPS 2.0. He wasn’t sure how to tell, & after a few back, & forths, he showed me the radio was last programmed in 2017 with legacy CPS. I purchased it, did the hex edit, & it works great on 902/927. So CPS 2.0, & FW 2.1, & above means no 902/927 ham freq’s.
Yes I'll message you when I get home tonight.
Thanks, I'll hang on to it in hopes something comes along that works.
Until yesterday I had no idea cps 2.0 'broke things'. Hopefully a work around becomes available at some point.
N4KVE
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CPS 2.0 doesn’t break anything. It’s just a lot less user friendly, & why many of us avoid it like the plague.
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CPS 2.0 doesn't necessarily break anything, it's just to me at least a little slower and clunkier in some aspects. It has however enabled us to "copy and paste" configurations where clone wouldn't work due to exact model numbers being a little different. All in all unless I'm doing something older I pretty much just use 2.0 any more and go with the flow. Several of the recent radios we got had newer firmware on them so we had to find a way to use it anyway so just went with that.
