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Kenwood Nx-5300SK6

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Hello everyone, so I purchased a new 5300
From eBay. I am confused about the color lcd screen. From some reason it does not let me change into color screen. It’s stuck on mono color. Does anyone know why ? And is their anything I can do to make it full color screen thanks.
 

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The NX-5300S is only monochrome display. If you want the full color display, you need to get the non-S model. There's some other differences also. It's important to understand the limitations of the "S" models. It won't do all the features of the non-S models, won't do P25.

If you purchased this radio thinking it was an NX-5300K6, you made a mistake.
 

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The "S" model does have a monochrome screen for about 99% of time. The splash screen of the radio will show color. I have several in service that have the customer logo's in them. Each radio at boot up will show the splash screen in color, and then full boot up are monochrome.
 

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The "S" model does have a monochrome screen for about 99% of time. The splash screen of the radio will show color. I have several in service that have the customer logo's in them. Each radio at boot up will show the splash screen in color, and then full boot up are monochrome.
Correct .. why wouldn’t Kenwood just leave it as full color.
 

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Correct .. why wouldn’t Kenwood just leave it as full color.
it was done to make up for the nx3000 shortage when the chip fire happened and then the THING made things worse with all the lock me downs that went world wide.

It has been asked to flash update the radios, they said not at this time. only a limited supply of those went out and not a earth breaking need to adjust. (shoulder shrug)
 

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Correct .. why wouldn’t Kenwood just leave it as full color.

The S series were a stopgap measure to fill in for the NX-3000 when the ADC chip became unavailable due to a chip factory fire. It was populously limited to keep it from competing with the standard NX-5000 line of radios. The monochrome display, lack of P25, single digital mode, were all part of this plan and well documented on the sales documentation.


Added in edit: Yeah, what he said….
 
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