XTL5000 question?

[mass-man]

I've got a chance to pick up a VHF XTL5000 from a friend of a fellow ham. It's a 50w single chassis unit. He claims it is FPP. Just how much programming is possible this way? It would be for P25 amateur repeaters, some analog ham stuff and conventional P25 for state highway patrol. I'm not too keen on tracking down the software, CPS,, etc if I can do what I want with tedious, but hopefully simpler FPP.
And while I'm here is a HHCH available for this radio?

 

[N4KVE]

I've got a chance to pick up a VHF XTL5000 from a friend of a fellow ham. It's a 50w single chassis unit. He claims it is FPP. Just how much programming is possible this way? It would be for P25 amateur repeaters, some analog ham stuff and conventional P25 for state highway patrol. I'm not too keen on tracking down the software, CPS,, etc if I can do what I want with tedious, but hopefully simpler FPP.
And while I'm here is a HHCH available for this radio?

The XTL radios are not FPP. Sorry. A HHCH is available, but they’re more expensive than the radio. You may find them for less, but not much. And while some radios are programmable from a keypad, you still need CPS, & a cable to program many settings like menus, zones, button functions, etc.

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[mass-man]

Ok, that answers that....had a feeling it was too good to be true.

 

[natedawg1604]

Ok, that answers that....had a feeling it was too good to be true.

Programming it with a computer and the CPS isn't that hard...

 

[mass-man]

Last M products I programmed was a bunch of MCS2000s for 900 mhz! That was a LONG time ago...
read too many posts about bricking a radio and not too keen on that...and the elusive search for the CPS!
But the search goes on....

 

[vagrant]

I use this much less expensive HHCH on my XTL5000, as I would need parts to get that more costly one to work. Much depends on the radio.

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[clbsquared]

Last M products I programmed was a bunch of MCS2000s for 900 mhz! That was a LONG time ago...
read too many posts about bricking a radio and not too keen on that...and the elusive search for the CPS!
But the search goes on....

The CPS is not as elusive as you think.

 

[rescue161]

You can program all of the ham repeater pairs and then set them all for MPL, so you can change the PL on the fly. I do this on my Motorola mobiles and portables, so I can always have the ability to program ham repeaters on the fly. I also throw in a bunch of simplex channels as well. It holds 1000 channels, which is way more than you could ever need to be able to program every ham frequency within a specific band.