prcguy
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I have a virgin PRC-153/XTS-2500 completely stock and untouched by anyone with military code plug intact and it has both Q52 and Q53 as factory options. There are thousands of them out there bought under mil contract.
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XTL/XTS5000 Motorola Xts5000 700/800mhz can’t hear 771 freq
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I bought it from an /\/\ dealer who checked it over and ran it on their Aeroflex, but who knows where they got it from. It was a used radio. . .
I would really like to have a functional backlight and have looked into Bryan Fields method for restoring it without replacing the keypad/UCM board but don't have the equipment for doing SMD rework.
prcguy
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I have limited SMD rework equipment and mucked up a trace trying the Bryan Fields mod. I'll just live with the dim display or maybe I'll get some night vision goggles as an accy just for this radio.
Back in the early 2000's, when the first xts5000's came out, at Wulfsberg electronics we had VHF, UHF and even some 700/800 MHz XTS5K'S direct from Moto engineering and later from the factory with FPP enabled.
They were all used in Our Engineering to work on a software interface using the moto sb9600 protocol to communicate with our RT5000P and RT/P2000 AVIATION radios, in the end the sb9600 bus to Wulfsberg interface was just too convoluted to get a reliable xts5k MTM MODULE fpp RT5K OR P2K AVIATION radio to market so I just used the fpp enabled radios for normal stuff that a ham/engineer would use them for.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these early fpp enabled xts5k's were still around in an old engineering cabinet back in Prescott.
So I wouldn't be surprised if other manufacturers who were integrating xts5k's into their products also had some factory enabled FPP MODELS FOR all available bands.
Almost forgot, our first rt5000 and p2000 aviation radios were meant to go to a 3 letter federal agency and they also had vhf and uhf fpp xts5k's of their own during our design years with the fpp radios.
They were all used in Our Engineering to work on a software interface using the moto sb9600 protocol to communicate with our RT5000P and RT/P2000 AVIATION radios, in the end the sb9600 bus to Wulfsberg interface was just too convoluted to get a reliable xts5k MTM MODULE fpp RT5K OR P2K AVIATION radio to market so I just used the fpp enabled radios for normal stuff that a ham/engineer would use them for.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these early fpp enabled xts5k's were still around in an old engineering cabinet back in Prescott.
So I wouldn't be surprised if other manufacturers who were integrating xts5k's into their products also had some factory enabled FPP MODELS FOR all available bands.
Almost forgot, our first rt5000 and p2000 aviation radios were meant to go to a 3 letter federal agency and they also had vhf and uhf fpp xts5k's of their own during our design years with the fpp radios.
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Garrison54
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It’s between 766.993750. - 773.006250 that I can’t put in
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