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Does your agency allow personal radios to be used on the system? What radios are used by your agency? It would be better to go with what they recommend.

Because the OP had already said the 2500 he has, has been converted to a 5000. Therefore, the O5 head on HIS radio will work WITHOUT modification. XTL2500 - M5 control head XTL5000 -O3, O5, W3,4,5,7,9 head

Flashing a 2500 to a 5000 and using an O5 head, doesn’t require any hardware modifications to the O5 head.

Your radio has been flashed to an XTL5000. The hardware for the 1500, 2500, and 5000 bricks are identical. It’s fairly common (for those with the right software) to upgrade a 2500 to a 5000. I would check to see what the backlighting settings are by reading the radio with the proper CPS. ASTRO...

Yes, the WARIS series programming cables will work on the CM series. Just make sure it’s an FTDI cable and not a Prolific. CDM, CM, M1225 radios use the same cable. Different CPS but the same cable.

The red flag here is that you are doing NAS on an encrypted system. If you were given legitimate access to an encrypted system, and given the key, why are you doing NAS? You would have had a better chance at getting the answers you were looking for if you had not mentioned an questionable way of...

Something about this doesn’t pass the smell test.

In the remote head configuration for an O5 head, the rear accessory connector is not used, therefore it isn’t necessary to jump those two pins.

You let an individual use leaked tools to do a dirty flash upgrade on an agency radio? And on a statewide system no less. 🤦‍♂️ I really hope your radio isn’t being used in any mission critical situations.

They must be following the same protocol as VMRC.

Your only option at this point is to obtain a rear accessory programming cable. And write the correct codeplug to it. Assuming you used the software we shan’t speak of. If you didn’t , then follow the above instructions. Throw it away and get another one or find someone with the correct tools...

Are you scanning? May be the priority channel checking back. Just a thought.

So, it looks like they have it broken down to three different areas. Meadows of Dan, Primland, and Bull Mountain. Kind of strange that a county would do that. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say the frequency you want is whichever area Patrick Springs is in. Otherwise you could (if you are...

Most county fire departments are on the same frequency. It wouldn’t do any good to have six or seven different fire departments in the same county, providing services for the entire county, to be on different frequencies. What county and what specific departments are you trying to monitor?

Zone Channel Assignment

Again. If the only radios you’re having a problem hearing are the cheap ones, don’t go down the rabbit hole of trying to “fix” your radio to compensate for their sh@&ty performance.

The problem is on the other end. Those cheap $15-30.00 radios are horrible with modulation. If I were to recommend anything to you it would be to steer away from the glass mount antennas.

The most common for that is going to be a “garage keepers” type of policy.

Simulcasting on VHF and 700/800 isn’t an issue. My county does that, as our pagers are VHF and our radio system is P25 700/800. However, there is a slight delay when hearing the VHF. You should really be speaking with the company doing the work. They’ll know what’s best. A console patch would...

Reverse that. What you need is a USB to serial adapter. Then you need the serial to RIB cable. I can confirm that a USB to serial adapter will work with a RIB for programming the Astro Spectra series radios using Windows 7 on a 32 bit machine. It even works on the MTS series radios as well.