So, the remote head continually activates the emergency button. I disabled the feature, but now I get a "boop" every few seconds. Before I pull the remote head out, will another 2500 remote head work in its place? Or is the head specific to that brick?
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XTL2500 Issue
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Pull the head apart and look at the emergency button, might just have something gunked up under it causing it to register continual keypresses.
You can just pop another head on there, IIRC.
Motorola may not repair that anymore, they ended support last January, but some service shops still have parts and will service them. We have had some with blown caps from the vehicle being jump started, and a few with this emergency button press problem from wear and use. (Although, we have a few users that forget to shut the radio down before removing the rear accessory connector, setting off the EMER as well). We swap them with spares all the time, as mentioned above. XTS/XTL radio support is limited to what Motorola has for parts for sale and on hand. Being replaced with APX series radios.
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and APX AN radios will soon suffer the same fate. So don't overspend if one does go the APX single band route. The AN 6000/6500s are being sold for RAPE OFF prices on Scambay for radios that soon will be off the support tit.
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