I know that Motorola software can be tricked to transmit out of band but Harris? I have a P5300 that is in the 900 band. Problem is it is useless for ham work unless you want to transmit only. The programmer wants to see frequencies above 935 for receive. Any solution bringing the receive down into the ham band?
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Tricking RPM for out of band
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ScubaJungle
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I can't help you with how, but I would imagine that the radios would be pressed to work anywhere more than 10mhz out of band. Not sure how far youre trying to get, but I would keep that in mind.
I would be interested in seeing how it plays out if you do find a way, though
I would be interested in seeing how it plays out if you do find a way, though
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control and r at the same time used to work.
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Can you elaborate?
Can't say I had any success. Tried that in several ways. How did you use it?
suwanneecomm
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this vid on yt goes over doing it on 2m should be similar for 900
good luck
ScubaJungle
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I was interested in trying this also, but that's a lot of work to do instead of just using another radio. Thanks for the link
prcguy
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There are some 900MHz XTS-2500s on Ebay right now. Trade off the P5300 and get the XTS, easy to do 900 amateur with those plus they are FPP and other neat features.
Great video. The band is split, how is that dealt with? 896-902 ans 935-945. I want to bring one up and the other down.
suwanneecomm
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i would think you would search for band edges you want to mod and add to file. if it were me i would look into different radio for the 900 band can be found relatively cheap on ebay such as the xtl or xts or the kenwood 941 or 981.
Edit: Please disregard. I couldn't see the video earlier.
On a Harris radio, you'll need an SC4 or SC5 file to take them out of band. I used to have some for various radios and bands. It either programs above or below the base frequency. So if you had a 150-174 radio and wanted to program ham frequencies, you'd use an SC4 file that would shift the base freq (150) down 6 MHz and the you'd program every freq in the radio 6 MHz above the needed freq. Then, when writing to the radio, the SC4 file will shift every freq down 6 MHz. It works, but is very time consuming and you can never read the radio to do any editing as once you read the radio, the frequencies will be the actual frequencies and if you try to program, RPM will complain that it is out of band.
On a Harris radio, you'll need an SC4 or SC5 file to take them out of band. I used to have some for various radios and bands. It either programs above or below the base frequency. So if you had a 150-174 radio and wanted to program ham frequencies, you'd use an SC4 file that would shift the base freq (150) down 6 MHz and the you'd program every freq in the radio 6 MHz above the needed freq. Then, when writing to the radio, the SC4 file will shift every freq down 6 MHz. It works, but is very time consuming and you can never read the radio to do any editing as once you read the radio, the frequencies will be the actual frequencies and if you try to program, RPM will complain that it is out of band.
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Personally I have no use for 900. I'm doing it for knowledge and that others might learn. I have done the mod for XTSs and it is a bit tougher because I had to figure out the checksum for the entire program. a downside to the harris is lack of fpp on the p series. anyway moving along I noticed in the file you created, you used b0, b1 etc. Assuming I had 2 numbers to change, what would the alpha designator be for the second frequency? Thanks, you have been quite helpful. Next I will go look at some files.
The sc5 raises up? I just looked at the RPM and in the options and directories the is a Check box for "Enable SC5 Files"
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It is just a newer file type. The raising or lowering depends on how the file is structured. It has been years since I modified them. I don't think I have any for 900, but it would be similar. I'll have to check when I get home.
I created an sc5 file that file was 920000000 dec. that was not sucessful. What comes to mind is, how is the file written to raise or lower frequency. What parameter gets changed? b? what denotes up or down?
what parameter affects lower ffreq limit and what affects upper freq limit.
Is there a such thing as a "Mapping file"?
what parameter affects lower ffreq limit and what affects upper freq limit.
Is there a such thing as a "Mapping file"?
You have to know the addresses in the code. Each radio is different. It is also not a direct conversion. I think the video above covers how to calculate everything. I forgot to look at my sc files last night.
suwanneecomm
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found a sc file for you also might want to look around a groups.io group called ge-orion lots of info on them there
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The SC5 files are meant to be used at the direction of Harris TAC. What rescue161 says is accurate, each radio is different and each SC4/5 file was typically created by TAC and given to the customer to 'solve' particular problems that didn't warrant an immediate firmware release. Think of them as hot-fixes for software issues, TAC would send them out to see if the issue went away and then roll that patch into the next firmware release. These patches basically just altered an EEPROM value after the radio was written, e.g. ProGrammer would write 896.000 MHz to the radio and then the radio would "adjust" that to 902 on first boot. That's why, when the radio was read back out, the values would be un-adjusted and ProGrammer would error out.
The SC4 file format from years ago was reverse-engineered from an SC4 file that was created to move the bandsplit of the Orion radios slightly for a customer. Once the format was figured out, SC4 files were put out in the wild that could adjust the bandsplit of just about any Orion radio. This same patch format was also found to work with the M7100.
SC5 was the new file format when ProGrammer was replaced with RPM. The file format itself is exactly the same, and the patch is entirely dependent on the radio it's applied to. So far, only a handful of the patches were able to translate to more modern radios. AFAIK, there have been no publicly-avaialble SC5 to move any OMAP radio out of band. The file format is the same, it's just not what the radio is expecting and disregards it.
There are 2 ways to move the x5300 900MHz radio out of band. Either edit the frequency table in the code upgrade file and flash the radio, or find the correct SC5 command to do it on-the-fly. Both are extremely difficult to do outside of help from TAC. I'm sure a TAC engineer would read this and laugh as they look at the formula for how SC5 band-edits are made, they just haven't been leaked to the wild yet.
The SC4 file format from years ago was reverse-engineered from an SC4 file that was created to move the bandsplit of the Orion radios slightly for a customer. Once the format was figured out, SC4 files were put out in the wild that could adjust the bandsplit of just about any Orion radio. This same patch format was also found to work with the M7100.
SC5 was the new file format when ProGrammer was replaced with RPM. The file format itself is exactly the same, and the patch is entirely dependent on the radio it's applied to. So far, only a handful of the patches were able to translate to more modern radios. AFAIK, there have been no publicly-avaialble SC5 to move any OMAP radio out of band. The file format is the same, it's just not what the radio is expecting and disregards it.
There are 2 ways to move the x5300 900MHz radio out of band. Either edit the frequency table in the code upgrade file and flash the radio, or find the correct SC5 command to do it on-the-fly. Both are extremely difficult to do outside of help from TAC. I'm sure a TAC engineer would read this and laugh as they look at the formula for how SC5 band-edits are made, they just haven't been leaked to the wild yet.
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