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GM 950 66-88 mhz locked

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airmonterosa

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Good morning everyone, while I was trying to program my GM 950 the radio stopped and when I turned it back on the display and the 3 LEDs flashed, preventing me from doing anything else.
Can anyone help me, I use this radio for mountain rescue and for me it is essential to repair it.
Any help will be most welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Michele IU2-GHV
 
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Sounds like maybe the codeplug got corrupted on its way into the radio.
I checked the usual source, BatLabs.com, but they didn't have any info on the radio. Other models usually require the "lab" software to fix these sorts of issues. I don't know where you'd find that, or if it would even work.

Sometimes with older radios like these, it's easier to find another used on rather than trying to fix something that old. Especially if someone's life depends on it.
 
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I've tried to repair some of those GM350/950 radios that indicate checksum errors, and especially the older GM900 series, and in all cases it was the memory chip that went bad. If the chip is going bad it will fail when it is written to and will need a trip to Motorola to be fixed, as when forcing a flash file into the radio using lab tools always failed for me.

/Ubbe
 
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