Vertex VX-P829 2-Tone Paging Programming Issue

[jeffd2]

Greetings everyone,
I have 25 of the Vertex VX-P829 VHF handheld radios and I can't read any of them using CE76. I can read them all with CE106-Talon but for whatever reason the radios or the software will not allow me to access the 2-tone paging part of the software, when using CE106-Talon. Was there a software change or a firmware change that removed the radios ability to encode/decode 2 tone pages? Is there a way to get the 2-tone paging capability back, either by using a different version of software or firmware or by any other method?

Thanks for any assistance you may be able to provide...

 

[radiotweester]

I think the "Talon" is a firmware? I've not had hands on one of these, but what I've read on here and other forums, they have some oddities. I was thinking they were military or federal, but I'm not sure. I seemed like even though ythey looked the same, the firmware is embedded and it's not possible to flash/downgrade to firmware that will run under CE76. I know these have been showing up surplus for a while, so hopefully someone with more info will chime in.
I'm guessing like most new software the manufacture mode is no longer in the software, but you might try adding a space -f or a space -m at the end of the target shortcut. It was popular on the mid 2000s software for enabling features in factory/manufacturer mode, but was dropped in later revisions.

 

[jeffd2]

Thank You for the reply.. Yes, the "/f" is used by the software to initiate the Front Panel Programming option for these radios so maybe there are other command line options that I'm unaware of.. Will give the '/m' a try and see if there's any difference.. I believe you are correct in your suspicions that these were a Federal version of the radio.. Once again, Thank You for the reply.. Much appreciated...