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CDM "Radio Disabled"

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70cutlass442

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Where can I send this to be fixed, better yet, how can I do it myself. The Centracom that would've been able to un-stun this is long gone.
 

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Those radios are long EOL and I doubt any shop is gonna fix them for you (Motorola will tell you to kick bricks). You might be able to fix it with a software not discussed on here but even that isn't guaranteed. Forcing a codeplug into the radio might be worth a shot too.
 

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I don't see what the big deal is.

For what it would cost for an estimate to fix a CDM, you could buy three used ones, certainly on eBay. And if you were to actually buy three of them (which I doubt), two of the three would probably be in good shape to great shape, and at least one seller would probably offer to program it for you.
 

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It's a long shot, but I recall from many many years ago, if the CDM radio had a passport card installed in it and it was not on a system or miss-configured, it would show as disabled. If you can read the radio with the software and look at the channels, make sure that use option card is not checked. There might be some other options that need to be looked at, but I can't remember now it's been so long. Of course it could of been disabled trough MDC or something else too.
 

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It's a long shot, but I recall from many many years ago, if the CDM radio had a passport card installed in it and it was not on a system or miss-configured, it would show as disabled. If you can read the radio with the software and look at the channels, make sure that use option card is not checked. There might be some other options that need to be looked at, but I can't remember now it's been so long. Of course it could of been disabled trough MDC or something else too.
Been a while, too.. but @tdeater 's post jostled some neurons about.

If a radio was disabled via a Passport system, didn't it say STUNNED? I can't remember ever seeing one of our Passport (or LTR) units ever saying the Radio Disabled. the OP's error code might be from MDC Selective Inhibit? Then again, we had a mixed moto/kenwood TK system and I might be confusing the error messages.

I don't know...looooong time ago.
 

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I believe the CDM radios actually said "Radio Disabled" after getting the MDC Command.
That's what I thought, and the Passport command was STUNNED on the TK380s (probably the same as the CDM/HT screen)
 

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Pretty sure this was a MDC command. The puzzeling part with this is there was NO MDC command sent. I remember when this happened we reviewed the eventide and there was no traffic that resembled MDC aside from normal pre or post ambles from the portables/mobiles. For the price I can just toss this but have a project in mind so I would prefer to fix if ease. Forcing code plugs into it didn't do anything.
 
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