LOL. I've just recently thru a cable across the room I was having issues with so poor wording is the least of my worries. I need to stop that nonsense. Good luck.
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As mentioned above, to some degree this is personal preference. At least on my computer here, Cps 2.0 seems much much slower but it a couple of other things that have helped some of us thru out recent years. I still use a mix of 16.828 and 2.0 depending on what radio I'm working on at the time, and also obviously what firmware it has. Recently I got a few SL-300s, and SL7550s and they were simply too new in firmware to use CPS 16.
Yes to my knowledge they stopped support for 16 some time ago, so modifying it is the only way to get the wide band. I "read once" that someone said if you get the wide band for 2.0 it also activates it on 16, but guys near me that have tried that, it hasn't worked for them. Hex editing things is an experience within itself so it's all a learning curve.
Frankly when we started this Motorola stuff some years back for 33cm ham, it was almost a different subculture itself and new learning. Hang in there, it's all a learning experience and once you get it, you'll be glad you hung around.
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Yeah, it's a "subculture", lol. I'm still trying to get one of my hotspots back up and running, one died and now has no display, the other has the display again but I can't get the dashboard to show up on my computer. Tried wife and ethernet, neither. Computer even says it can't find wpsd/local. But that's off topic, gonna go back to trying to fix the CPS 16.0. You know, out of 3 projects you'd think I could get ONE working.
You mentioned 6550 and wideband. Wideband in trbo is tied to the programming software not the specific radio itself.
And yes cps16 requires a file hex edited to enable wideband as the authentication server no longer communicates to the older software.
And yes cps16 requires a file hex edited to enable wideband as the authentication server no longer communicates to the older software.
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Holy Crap! Something I actually knew! LOL!
As I said above, I've gotten some help off forum. No time before work tonight, but the ext few days should show progress.
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Well the saga continues, working on learning CPS 16.0 828 so I can use the XPR-6550. Meanwhile a UHF SL-7550 arrived and I somehow managed to program 3 DMR repeaters into it, one right by my apartment and 2 about 30 minutes South where I go to visit my son. The one close by works quite well, and I’m really impressed for a 2 watt radio. If nothing else, it gets me on the airwaves and it’s a great confidence builder toward other Motorola projects.
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