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DOS VS. Windows Question

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I have asked this on another website and nobody seems to be able to answer it so I am trying here.
I purchased a portable MTS2000 III Flashport. It was programmed using DOS software which I do not have.
Will I be able to program it using my Windows based software?

Manny
 

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I have asked this on another website and nobody seems to be able to answer it so I am trying here.
I purchased a portable MTS2000 III Flashport. It was programmed using DOS software which I do not have.
Will I be able to program it using my Windows based software?

Manny

Manny - I must assume the way you are asking this question you mean
Motorola RSS vs CPS programing software.

Chances are if it was programed with RSS then your CPS should have
no problem programing the MTS2000 Model 3 radio.

BTW - You can leave off the "Flashport" word when referring to the model
as almost all of the MTS2000 series have the flashport feature.
 

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I'm going to say yes, Manny. I have a UHF Jedi that was programmed with RSS and now I have CPS 2.03, no problem.

Try the XTS3000...nice for digital!
 

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** It depends on the firmware of the radio. I have seen many MTS2000's that cannot be programmed with CPS due to their firmware being too old. RSS was no problem. Once their firmware was uplifted, there was no problem.

** This was in 2006 with old radios that were still in use by our agency.
 

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Thanks you guys! As you can tell, I am new to programming this particular model of radio.I am slowly but surely coming around to understanding it all. I AM talking about RSS vs. CPS. Cool beans if it works. I should have the radio early next week. I used to use these when I was on the job transporting inmates. All I remember was that when the state switched us from these to TK-380 Kenwoods, most of us were IRATE. Nothing against Kenwood but you could never compare them to Motorola MT2000s. The TK-380s were cheaply built for the work we did, especialy during an inmate struggle in a confined area. MT2000s took a licking and kept on ticking. Enough said. Thanks to all of you for responding and teaching me a little more about this radio.

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They were a mixture of II and III MTS2000's.

I honestly cannot remember the firmware revision cut-off, but I can tell you that there was a definite cut-off from where CPS would not work and RSS had to be used. That went away once the radios were uplifted to the current firmware.

EDIT: This was a government agency which was using OLD radios with OLD firmware.
 

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Ok, well thanks for the heads up! I guess I will find out sure enough when it gets here next week. Thanks again!

Manny
 

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I think you need to first find out the firmware version of the radio by pressing the lower left button 5 times in a row after powering up the radio. The display will then give the firmware number. If its lower than 5.60 (I think that's the magic number) then you need to use DOS only. If you use CPS even to just read the radio, you won't be able to program the radio with DOS or CPS without a firmware upgrade/flash.
 
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