I don't know enough about your location to answer this question. Assuming the radio reference database is correct (and it usually is pretty darned close) yes you follow that to program the radio. Now then, I'm going to reiterate some of what others have said...If you don't know what you're doing, you'd be better off with a scanner or get someone locally to make absolutely sure you cannot inadvertently transmit on those (especially the FD) frequency. You say above you "understand" the software yet, your posts lead me to believe you do not understand it or have enough knowledge in general to do what you're trying to do. Sorry but when someone talks about programming a radio on Public Service stuff and doesn't know what they're doing, I honestly believe it's time to bow out to that.
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XPR Motrola XPR 3500E Programming Help?
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I know how to keep the radio from transmitting. Do I know everything about cps? No but I know to check the RX box only and I have no intention on interfering with any emergency communication. I know how important it is. I am a reserve certified police officer. I can have the radio programmed at any time by someone else. Trying to learn it myself. “Not offended”
That does not make you Authorized to have a Working 2way Radio.
So is the Nice Young Man being shown on TV being Certified for 1000 Law Enforcement Departments.
Sorry but you do not act like a True Police Officer.
So is the Nice Young Man being shown on TV being Certified for 1000 Law Enforcement Departments.
Sorry but you do not act like a True Police Officer.
I’m sorry I don’t remember asking you if I was qualified or not or whether you thought I was a true police officer. Want my opinion? I think you’re a true Democrat.
If I was I would not have said Nice Young Boy.
No but I am a RF Trained Tech that understands you act like a 14-year-old with a bike and yellow vest.
No but I am a RF Trained Tech that understands you act like a 14-year-old with a bike and yellow vest.
Then do that, take the software you know, and read the programming you can have done at any time, and you'll see what they did. DMR is not just entering a frequency, there's more to it than that.
You ask for help you were given the best advice for you and you refuse to take it. If you were smart you would take the radio have it done by a professional and learn from it.
Then why do you come to the internet every time you can't get something to work? If you're really trying to learn it yourself then you would actually be experimenting with the codeplug, seeing what different settings and options do, and using your resources to assist you with things you can't figure out. I taught myself how to use CPS and CPS2, much like many other people here. You should give it a try
OK, so now somebody wanting to learn something new is a 14-year-old with a bike and a yellow vest?
So you say you’re a trained tech does that mean someone trained you? The way you’re acting on here is like the grumpy old fuc*** in the neighborhood that runs outside of your house and tells the four kids on the block to stop playing cops and robbers on their two-way radios because they don’t know how to key up right. When in reality you ought to be showing them how to actually key upright and teaching them something.
And then we have people like you that wonder why we don’t have anybody who are skilled trades people in the United States. People like you!
I have an Electronics Degree from 1979 Worked in a 2way Radio Shop on my days off and was the RF person for our Department and assisted with the County Trunking System for our County. I also designed the current FD DRM system before I retired. Tn Certified Firefighter EMT I earned my skills in classes with paperwork to back it up.
Now the reason we tell what we tell you if you interfere because you setup the radio wrong you can be charged with these charges you could loose the right to be a Police Officer. You also have to have a written letter from each License Holder to use their frequency or you are in violation.
Now the reason we tell what we tell you if you interfere because you setup the radio wrong you can be charged with these charges you could loose the right to be a Police Officer. You also have to have a written letter from each License Holder to use their frequency or you are in violation.
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It has been learned from you that 2 of the frequencies you want to use have expired license which means they could belong to someone else now and that would mean you are operating unlicensed which could cost you also. So please take the advice to protect yourself.
We are trying to teach you something. I've been taught a lot in my life, and some of that was, I had no business doing what I was doing at the time, but after I learned more, sure then do that. (not necessarily about radio).
I've received a lot of help programming various receivers (scanners pagers and other devices) right here in RR, but at times the answers were direct and to the point. I'll take a to the point answer anytime over any coddling that simply doesn't help.
You want to learn how to program a Motorola radio on CPS 2. I get that.
Since one of these is a DMR frequency, you first need to educate yourself on what DMR actually is, how it works, and then you will know what to put in CPS 2, to receive that channel. DMR is NOT plug and play, rather there is other criteria that has to be loaded into the radio to receive the DMR frequencies. Read about color code, time slot, and talk group. In my early days, I often made programming errors on ham stuff, and it was 99% of the time a miss entry on my part due to not having all the correct information to input.
Comments like this when people are trying to honesty help you do the right thing, aren't going to get you much help. Some members here are pretty well respected for the advice they hand out and while no one is perfect and being all human, sometimes you just have to agree to disagree but there's a right and wrong way to do that.
This seems important. While I haven't checked the licenses, perhaps you could bring this to their attention and help get it sorted out. I'd think that would go a long way to your credibility with any departments or even schools you are associated with. Sometimes expired licenses are because people just don't care but other times, an honest mistake and I'm sure most agencies/schools/business's, would appreciate this bring brought to their attention.
I can easily understand wanting to learn how to program. When I got my first Motorola radio, it wasn't very long before the fact I didn't know what to do and how to program it drove me nuts. I did tons of local asking, received a lot of help from a Motorola commercial programmer and from fellow hams in the area using the /\/\ equipment. Now we all help each other making the radios do things they were never even designed to do. (900 MHz ham band stuff). Help is out there, and probably right here, but you need a little more knowledge other than simply how the software works to get all that going. Am I an expert at it? Nope, but thus far all my radio equipment regardless of brand is doing what I need it to do. Will I need help if I switch to other stuff? Sure, but I'll have a good idea how things work, prior to asking questions with zero knowledge of the frequency, mode, and other criteria I'm trying to get in there.
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Take it to them and watch over their shoulder and learn.
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