Can't Get Minitor V into Programming Mode?

[KC9WWH]

So, I'm not sure whats going on, but I've programmed a bunch of pagers, but for some reason this one pager will not go into programming mode or any other test mode for that reason?

Does anyone know of any way to force the pager into programming mode or a sort of hard reset?



Thanks,
Josh

 

[DPapay]

Sounds like the reset button does not work? You could open up the pager to see if it just needs contact cleaner?

 

[KC9WWH]

The reset button seems to work since when the pager is on I can hold it down and it will open up and it also resets fine after a page?



Thanks

 

[KC9WWH]

Well...I'm not sure what exactly is going on. I went ahead and opened it up and took a can of compressed air to it, put it back together and same thing. But, I did find out that with the housings off I could get it into programming mode???

After a few tries I was able to get it to stay in programming mode long enough to add the new call tones, so at least I got that done, but still not sure why its not working properly?

Anyway, thanks for the help.

 

[chrismol1]

Maybe the knob is a little off internally so it can't go into that mode easily

 

[leaton]

Well...I'm not sure what exactly is going on. I went ahead and opened it up and took a can of compressed air to it, put it back together and same thing. But, I did find out that with the housings off I could get it into programming mode???

After a few tries I was able to get it to stay in programming mode long enough to add the new call tones, so at least I got that done, but still not sure why its not working properly?

Anyway, thanks for the help.

Did you ever figure out why it wasn't going into programing mode? I'm facing same thing and can't figure it out.

 

[CommJunkie]

I had this problem a long time ago with a bad battery. It wasn't making the right contact and it kept turning off and back on.

 

[leaton]

I tried a different battery and no luck.

 

[ffexpCP]

Dirty programming contacts on the bottom of the pager? 90% of the time that's the problem when I get programming errors.

 

[leaton]

Pretty sure thats not it. When i put on "c" hold down the reset button and power it on... it wont give me the high pitch single tone indicating its going into prog mode. It also gives me squelch noise when i press the button to play the voice storage. I fear who ever had this pager in the past messed with the adv settings in the prog. Not sure where to start.