Hi everyone,
I was not sure if I should put this here, or in the amateur section.
You see, I am a radio amateur, but worked in the commercial mobile sector for many years, and a few weeks ago, I ended up assisting a small group, of volunteer paramedics and social helpers to commission a radio system. These guys have been working on the covid pandemic relief and some do it whenever and however they can.
Anyway, long story short, I have some VHF radios, some in P25 (Astro sabers and Racal P25's). As a start we can start analog conventional, and maybe take it to P25 later.
Some 15 years ago I used Racal P25 and today got my hands on a few more and turned them on.
I like these radios for their easy FPP ability.
Using FPP, I could get into the power, hi/lo channel select menu and modify the values, in my case 1 watt lo and 5 watts hi.
However on exit back to start display menu, I get 2 watt on the display !
Checked output; Its 2.5 watt on my Bird.
My question(s) is : Do I need some unobtainium soft/hardware to, change this power value ?
Also, its been some time now, so may I ask if there is some soft key or whatever to programm to act as hi/lo output switch ?
I know these radios are old old now, but when they work, they work well enough and we have a few of them on hand. Version is 7.1
Batteries are not available, but I put in regular x10 AA nicads in the clam-shell holder thats really meant for x10 1.5 volt non rechargable Alkaline cells, and they appear to work ( not sure if there is some circuitry in the clamshell to take the 15 volt alkaline stack voltage down to 12 volt something.) Maybe the battery issue is something else.
Hate to bring up this ancient stuff once more, but its for a good cause, if I can help it.
Will appreciate any help guys, I could not find anything online apart from a basic fpp menu twiddle instructions.
I did not know where else to ask.
thanks,
Vincent
9H5LX
I was not sure if I should put this here, or in the amateur section.
You see, I am a radio amateur, but worked in the commercial mobile sector for many years, and a few weeks ago, I ended up assisting a small group, of volunteer paramedics and social helpers to commission a radio system. These guys have been working on the covid pandemic relief and some do it whenever and however they can.
Anyway, long story short, I have some VHF radios, some in P25 (Astro sabers and Racal P25's). As a start we can start analog conventional, and maybe take it to P25 later.
Some 15 years ago I used Racal P25 and today got my hands on a few more and turned them on.
I like these radios for their easy FPP ability.
Using FPP, I could get into the power, hi/lo channel select menu and modify the values, in my case 1 watt lo and 5 watts hi.
However on exit back to start display menu, I get 2 watt on the display !
Checked output; Its 2.5 watt on my Bird.
My question(s) is : Do I need some unobtainium soft/hardware to, change this power value ?
Also, its been some time now, so may I ask if there is some soft key or whatever to programm to act as hi/lo output switch ?
I know these radios are old old now, but when they work, they work well enough and we have a few of them on hand. Version is 7.1
Batteries are not available, but I put in regular x10 AA nicads in the clam-shell holder thats really meant for x10 1.5 volt non rechargable Alkaline cells, and they appear to work ( not sure if there is some circuitry in the clamshell to take the 15 volt alkaline stack voltage down to 12 volt something.) Maybe the battery issue is something else.
Hate to bring up this ancient stuff once more, but its for a good cause, if I can help it.
Will appreciate any help guys, I could not find anything online apart from a basic fpp menu twiddle instructions.
I did not know where else to ask.
thanks,
Vincent
9H5LX