Need help with programming EFJ 5100

[methusaleh]

First of all...yes, I have read the user manual, I have searched RR, and I have searched online, and I can not find the answer to my question.

I recently obtained a used 5100, model 242-5117-660GS4, software version 4.4.16.

According to what I can find online, and the previous owner, the radio is supposed to have 512 channels available, and be FPP-capable. However the dial only rotates to 16 (it does not just keep spinning, like some Motorola radios I am familiar with), and I can not figure out how to create more zones in the memory. Presumably the 512 channels are not somehow hidden within the controls as they appear. The ABC switch seems to do nothing (how can I program that? Not listed in the manual either!)

The radio is very easy to program individual channels via FPP, however I have tried for hours to get it to create a new zone, and I am stumped.

 

[FFPM571]

In order to enable more zones it has to be set up in the radio by using the software. It looks like there is one zone of 16 FPP channels. The PCC as EFJ calls it you need is 2.10.2. It requires windows XP or greater on your computer and a programming cable that is avalible on Ebay usually from Kawa. Once you read the radio with the software you can create more zones and see what options are available.

 

[SCPD]

In order to enable more zones it has to be set up in the radio by using the software. It looks like there is one zone of 16 FPP channels. The PCC as EFJ calls it you need is 2.10.2. It requires windows XP or greater on your computer and a programming cable that is avalible on Ebay usually from Kawa. Once you read the radio with the software you can create more zones and see what options are available.

Know where to d/l PCC 2.10.2 ?

 

[FFPM571]

contact EFJohnson

 

[W2NJS]

FPP is a limited function on all FPP radios, Motorola and EFJ. You can't set up scanlists or zones, and you can't add channels. What you can do is reprogram existing channels in existing zones. To get to the "other" stuff you must have the software available.

 

[SCPD]

contact EFJohnson

OK. Im going to give them a ring this morning :thumbup:

 

[methusaleh]

My apologies for not posting a follow-up to this...

An EFJ dealer confirmed that the software needed to be accessed via computer in order to complete the setup I needed. He took care of it for me, and now the radio meets my needs.

 

[SCPD]

My apologies for not posting a follow-up to this...

An EFJ dealer confirmed that the software needed to be accessed via computer in order to complete the setup I needed. He took care of it for me, and now the radio meets my needs.

That's good news. Too bad efj hasn't contacted me via email for purchasing link of PCC configure.