Unity XG100p Mission plan example files

[James_Bond_007]

I'm looking for mission plan examples i can open in rpm 10 and examine and modify to my needs. need some kind of starting point to learn how to program these radios.

thanks

 

[Reconrider]

It's actually more fun if you play around with it to learn. There is a help guide in the settings somewhere but it's majorly over detailed and confused me more than helped.

How about you ask us questions in this thread or if you'd like you can join my discord and I can help you for like an hour or so before I get off. But I'm sure another person in the group would be willing to help out if anyone knows.

 

[James_Bond_007]

what is the address to your discord?

 

[BMDaug]

I'm looking for mission plan examples i can open in rpm 10 and examine and modify to my needs. need some kind of starting point to learn how to program these radios.

thanks

What radio are you working with? Does it have an existing mission plan or personality on it? You can extract that program and use that as an example. It’s not a good idea to repeatedly load a plan, extract it, make changes, load it again, extract and so on, but I learned by extracting the plan that came on the radio and fiddling from there…

I just add a version number at the end of each mission plan and increment it as I make changes, archiving every version so I can roll back if needed. This process has served me well and I’ve never had an issue with corrupt mission plans.

Another thing I would recommend is always activating a plan from the program screen on the radio itself (assuming you have a radio that supports multiple mission plans and not a fixed personality) and not from RPM. The only time I’ve ever had to do a three finger salute was after activating a mission plan on my 100P from the programming screen inside RPM.

Good luck, have fun!

-B

 

[James_Bond_007]

What radio are you working with?

i don't know beyond an xg100p.

Does it have an existing mission plan or personality on it?

it has something in there (all public safety stuff) but when i go to program screen in radio or try to read via rpm it says no mission plans.

You can extract that program and use that as an example. It’s not a good idea to repeatedly load a plan, extract it, make changes, load it again, extract and so on, but I learned by extracting the plan that came on the radio and fiddling from there…

i am a total newbe to these radios as i have been moto and kenwood most of my life. what happens when you extract change and reload mission plans? corrupt the radio?

I just add a version number at the end of each mission plan and increment it as I make changes, archiving every version so I can roll back if needed. This process has served me well and I’ve never had an issue with corrupt mission plans.

how do you corrupt mission plan?

Another thing I would recommend is always activating a plan from the program screen on the radio itself (assuming you have a radio that supports multiple mission plans and not a fixed personality) and not from RPM. The only time I’ve ever had to do a three finger salute was after activating a mission plan on my 100P from the programming screen inside RPM.

how do i know if the radio supports multiple mission plans? i am used to motorola codeplugs so all these terms and how this radio works is totally new to me.

 

[James_Bond_007]

I have attached images of the firmware version, features, etc

also what is feature 50?

 

[BMDaug]

Oh… so you have a clone plan loaded currently. From the mission plans page, push the right arrow and you will move to the clone plans tab. I’ve never used a clone plan so I’m not sure what the available options are, but I don’t think you can extract those… bummer.

A corrupt mission plan doesn’t ruin the radio (I suppose it’s possible, but extremely unlikely), but may necessitate a three finger reset, which would just remove all mission plans and reset the radio to factory, leaving the firmware at whatever version it is currently.

Extracting, modifying, loading over and over can just make the mission plan unstable, which may cause the radio to randomly reboot or freeze up, but I’ve never had this happen (I don’t extract except for the one time when I received the radio just to back up existing data).

50 is OMAP Wideband Disable, which is different that 58 Wideband Disable and I think stillallows you to program Wideband ham frequencies, but I’m not positive about that. I’ve never had a Harris with feature 50. Maybe someone else can chime in on this.

All XG100P radios support multiple mission plans, I just didn’t know that’s the radio you had and not all Harris radios support multiple mission plans, some use a fixed personality.

Good luck!

-B

 

[James_Bond_007]

Oh… so you have a clone plan loaded currently. From the mission plans page, push the right arrow and you will move to the clone plans tab. I’ve never used a clone plan so I’m not sure what the available options are, but I don’t think you can extract those… bummer

under clone tab "no files found" as well.

 

[James_Bond_007]

i did a factory reset to get that proprietary trunking data out of there. i need help starting a from scratch mission plan / personalty.

 

[BMDaug]

So create a new personality in rpm and tell it the type of radio you are programming for. Navigate to the sets tree, and double click on conventional sets, then create a new set! The conventional set has pretty standard features, like tx and rx frequencies… channel guard is your ctcss or dcs code, select power, bandwidth, etc. Check the scan box if you want that channel included in a scan and cct if you want the transmission to timeout after the default 60 seconds, though you can change this in options. Do this for each desired channel.

Then, you need to create a system and associate your set with that system. From there, you can create a zone if you would like, which is handy if you have multiple systems, each with an assigned set and want to assign channels from multiple systems to the channel knob on top. A zone can also allow you to assign channels to particular knob positions without rearranging them in the conventional set list.

There are lots of options in the options tree. So you will want to learn about those. RPM has a great help menu where you can just search for terms correlating with fields and it will explain what those fields do.

-B

 

[James_Bond_007]

how do i make a specific channel rx only? could not locate an option in the tree for that? or in the case of a trunked system nas.

 

[n3obl]

for conventional you just blank the tx freq field.

 

[BMDaug]

If you are trying to NAS, you need to be very careful. There are many boxes that need to be unchecked throughout the personality. Failing to uncheck all of the right boxes will lead to affiliation and permanent inhibiting of the radio. You don’t use conventional sets for trunking. You would use trunked sets, group sets, and an iden set. Then you would create systems and zones based on those.

 

[James_Bond_007]

what if i don't know a nac on a particular conventional frequency? do i just put 0 to monitor all traffic on that particular frequency? or is there a way to do digital csq?

 

[BMDaug]

what if i don't know a nac on a particular conventional frequency? do i just put 0 to monitor all traffic on that particular frequency? or is there a way to do digital csq?

293 is default
X7E should unsquelch for any NAC

-B

 

[James_Bond_007]

i have a mission plan made. i try to program using usb cable nothing happens.

 

[BMDaug]

So plug into the radio and to the computer. Power on the radio. Once the radio loads up, open the program window by clicking the USB icon at the top of rpm. This should open the window and read current available radios in the top section, plans already in the radio are in the middle, and open plans in rpm are at the bottom. Select the plan you want to load and click program. The screen should refresh and show the plan listed in the center section. Click done, and unplug the radio. On the radio, navigate to menu>program and load the new plan. Hopefully that works for you!

-B

 

[James_Bond_007]

This is the screen i'm to. I hit program. Nothing happens. Usb cable plugged from radio to pc and radio is booted up.

 

[BMDaug]

What version of firmware is on the radio? I can’t see the entire thing. I e only ever used RPM14 so I’m not sure what the version cutoff is for RPM10. Usually, you click program, the screen refreshes, and then the program is listed in the center section, showing it loaded properly. And are you sure you selected Unity Portable when you created the plan?

-B

 

[James_Bond_007]

I got an email into the harris dealer to upgrade from 10b to 14c. I'll see if the upgrade solves the problem.