TK-880 Programming

[bvankl]

I am attempting to program 880's for work. All of the radios are password protected and the general rule of thumb is that the year of installation was the password. However, I have came accross a couple that this is not the case. It could very well have been a typing error when the passwords were set (201 instread of 2010). Does anyone know a work around for this?

The radio tech that use to work on everything is no longer in the area. Any help or suggestion is appreciated.

 

[code3cowboy]

You can do a bit of bit banging and work around the write password, but the passcode is frequently a portion of the serial number, a date of programming, or the badge number of the programmer. The easiest is to call the old comm tech and ask him. Alternately you can blast the new program into each of the radios with the modified software.

 

[Luis_R]

You should be able to reprogram the radio with new codeplug even tho you don't have the password.

 

[bvankl]

You should be able to reprogram the radio with new codeplug even tho you don't have the password.

It worked!! I couldnt imagine that it could be that simple to "wipe out" a pass coded radio.

Thanks to both of you for the quick replies.

Bob

 

[wv8mat]

never understood why kenwood did that, you have a radio with a password, but you can write a new codeplug right over it and bam it works, i thought passwords were to protect the radio and it programming. Not your radio of course, but if you had a stolen radio and wrote a new codeplug over it, who would know. not like may people are forced to take a radio out of there console or cabnets and show s/n's haha

 

[ambdrvr]

TK-880 Password

My understanding as to why Kenwood did this was to protect the sometimes "sensitive" information loaded onto the radio. Say someone would steal a police radio. Yes you can re-write over the current codeplug but at least you can't get the police departments frequencies and PL/DPL tones to cause trouble with the system. I agree that it lacks thought but I guess they had their reasons. Just my 2 cents worth again!!

Ambdrvr

 

[wv8mat]

i can see that too, but who are we just the people that use them, lol just like moto only 16 in a scan list. haha, when you have a county like mine who has 11-13 repeaters active most of the time, hard to have them all and your mutialaid freqs in scan