Adding in my obligatory "monitoring for further" so I can figure this out too... also, I feel your pain with lockdown keys. Should be common practice for agencies/shops to break the key before declaring the equipment surplus.
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Dual-brick XTL5000, O5 head
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ØÆSØ Say it, say 'ENCRYPTION'
Meh, an ASK locked down XTS/XTL radio is an easily solved problem.
Yes. However my mobile [redacted] software is deciding it doesn’t like to communicate with radios anymore. I do have some other software to try in the mean time, might get to it today.
I have working tools now to remove the ASK. Will probably be a little while though until I can set things up hardware wise. We are having a mini blizzard and I don't really like climbing around in the trunk of my car getting covered in snow, and don't really feel like assembling a whole dual remote O5 setup indoors either. Unfortunately it is seeming like it is not as easy as force-enabling the dual radio field in CPS. Upon uploading the codeplug to my 'primary' radio, and powering up the radio, it does not show an alias on the screen, or give me any indication of an error of a missing second radio. I will see if I can torture it into compliance in some way.
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Weather is good and I will mess with it today. However, it is seeming like it will not work and I will probably hook up an O3 or W3 head to the second radio. Even though it seems like I can trick it in the software- the modified codeplug either doesn’t properly upload to the radio. Or if it is, the radio is just ignoring it.
Looks like they were planning it in 2006… I wonder if work on that started before they decided on making a dual band APX. 
Dual Control Head was a feature that was implemented. It allowed two heads to be connected to a single radio though (think front, rear), not two radios to one head. I don't recall the limitations but nowadays, APX mobiles can have have up to 4 heads simultaneously.
I don't have any guidance on your quest unfortunately. I believe others have tried in the past but without success. Seemed to stop when APX came out. Best of luck!
I don't have any guidance on your quest unfortunately. I believe others have tried in the past but without success. Seemed to stop when APX came out. Best of luck!
I believe in the APX series you can have dual radios with the O7 and O9 control heads.
Oops I realize that said dual control head. I misread it as dual radio. I’ve done a few dual control head O5 and PM1500 setups.
