So i have a XTS 5000 Model 3 700/800, ive had it for a while, i want to know how i can scan local police and local EMS and Fire channles, I have no clue how to do it or what to do. I dont have a programming cable for it or any programming system, Can anyone Please help me on how to set my Radio up for local scanning?
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Sell it and buy a scanner.
Contact Motorola to purchase programming software and cable, you will need to set up an account with them in order to make the purchase, you will also need to know the part numbers to search their website for, as it is very business geared and not very user friendly. You will then need to learn the software and be very careful because one mistake and a local agency will send a brick command and shut down the radio. The whole process will take months at best to complete...
Come to think of it take the advice of @KevinC sell it and buy a scanner, it will be cheaper, faster and safer.
Hi @carlos12. I used to program well over a thousand of those HTs. Since you said
then you are already in over your head. The probability that your radio would get “bricked”, which means to render useless and inoperative by the agency you are trying to monitor, is very high. As has been stated above, your best bet is to sell it and buy a nice scanner to keep you out of trouble. But before you buy a scanner, you should tell us who you want to monitor to see if that is even possible to begin with. There is also the possibility that the agency can’t be monitored with anything that you could buy.
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Yeah, seriously. Not to pile on here, but there's a whole lot to this, including money.
We'd need to know -exactly- which departments you'd want to listen to. That radio is very specific to the band/emission and we don't know what your local agencies use. Entirely possible that this radio will not receive those frequencies or modes. The agencies may also be encrypted, which will 100% block your ability to hear their traffic, even if this is the right model radio for their system.
The software is very difficult to learn for even the most basic setup. Experience radio techs can take week long courses from Motorola to learn the basic functions and still not be able to set these things up correctly.
It requires a programming cable that is not free.
If the agency runs a trunked system, the set up is even more complex than above and there is a -real- possibility to screw up programming and have the radio accidentally connect to their system. If that happens, the system administrator can see the radio on their system and they can send a "kill" command that will make your radio a useless doorstop. At worst, they can find you and the radio and that can result in FCC enforcement action and maybe some trouble with local law enforcement.
I'm not trying to fool you here, this is serious stuff.
If you are interested in listening to your local agency -and- they are not encrypted, the safe/easy/legal way to hear them is to purchase a scanner designed to do the job.
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