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XTL head on Astro Radio

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iceman977th

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I'm looking for a decent VHF P25 mobile for my truck. Instead of picking up a more expensive XTL unit, I'm looking at getting an older Astro radio (something like this) and purchasing an XTL head to put on it. We use XTL2500's and XTL5000's so we have the legal CPS for those, which is also supposed to be able to program the older Spectra's. Would this work?
 

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Can't do it. You can put a W7 VFD display head on an XTL but you can't put an O5 XTL on an Astro Spectra.
 

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Also, Astro25 software is not compatible with the older Astro Digital Spectra. For the ADS radio, you'll need Astro Spectra v 5.03.
 
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