XTS3000 VHF P25/FMN SoCal CPS Codeplug?

[tcarro15]

Does anyone happen to have a Motorola XTS300 / Astro Saber CPS codeplug with a broad range of VHF public safety and service in the LA/SoCal region (also CHP, CalFire, etc.) that they would be happy to share over with me? I can write one just fine, but I have so many projects going on and it's so time consuming. I was hoping someone had already made that labor or love and was willing to share!

Thanks!

 

[nokones]

Does anyone happen to have a Motorola XTS300 / Astro Saber CPS codeplug with a broad range of VHF public safety and service in the LA/SoCal region (also CHP, CalFire, etc.) that they would be happy to share over with me? I can write one just fine, but I have so many projects going on and it's so time consuming. I was hoping someone had already made that labor or love and was willing to share!

Thanks!

With the exception of a VHF Tactical channel for the Rose Tac system that can only be used on a temporary basis for 3 days a year, the CHP's only VHF channel was the VRS system control channel. I can't remember if I put in a VHF system on the Bor Tac system, I kinda thought that I did. That was a long time ago like 30 years.

 

[kj6psg]

With a 256 channel capacity, you're not going to be able to fit a broad range of public safety channels into a codeplug. CALFIRE alone is about half that capacity.

 

[nokones]

I guess I got cheated out of a channel. The channel capacity for my Type II XTS3000s is only 255 channels. Maybe the extra channel is a Flash Feature which I don't have in my three radios. Oh well.

 

[kj6psg]

It's been a while since I've done an XTS3000, I can be off by one

 

[Paco-Jerte]

Does anyone happen to have a Motorola XTS300 / Astro Saber CPS codeplug with a broad range of VHF public safety and service in the LA/SoCal region (also CHP, CalFire, etc.) that they would be happy to share over with me? I can write one just fine, but I have so many projects going on and it's so time consuming. I was hoping someone had already made that labor or love and was willing to share!

Thanks!

Co-worker has it on his XTS3000 VHF rig I believe I can ask but doubt he will.
Question, does it have anything to do with your classifieds item ??? You do offer to program it and asking for someone else to do it for you? I could be wrong and forgive me but sure sounds like it.

MINT Motorola VHF P25 XTS3000 - Will Program

I have a MINT XTS3000 VHF P25 Digital Portable Radio with Impres Charger and two batteries up for grabs. I will custom program it for you within reason. It's currently programmed with Texas DPS, Texas Forest Service Fire and VTAC Interop...

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[es93546]

I've read the term "codeplug" for several years now. By context I've assumed this meant a radio program with all of its groups/zones and any other special functions. Am I correct?

 

[kayn1n32008]

I've read the term "codeplug" for several years now. By context I've assumed this meant a radio program with all of its groups/zones and any other special functions. Am I correct?

Yes. It's a Motorola specific term.

It refers to all the parameters you configure in CPS, then send to the radio to make it operate how you want it to.

once you configure and set all the parameters and write it to you radio, you can create a file from it, called an archive, and that file uses the extension *.cpg when you save it to your drive.

Over the years, myself included, people started to refer to these files that you create for other brands of LMR gear as codeplugs as well. It kind of caught on.

 

[nokones]

I believe the XTS3000 and the Astro Saber radios are just as finicky as the XTS5000 radio that you have to have the matching Flash Features and specific model type in order to clone a target radio with a codeplug file from a source radio? I think I ran across that situation with my Astro Sabers between the Type II and Type III radios and with my XTS3000 Type II radios some time ago and I had to make separate codeplug files.

Finding the same model type radio that was acquired/flashed many decades ago from the same batch of radios will be near to impossible to do today.

 

[kayn1n32008]

I believe the XTS3000 and the Astro Saber radios are just as finicky as the XTS5000 radio that you have to have the matching Flash Features and specific model type in order to clone a target radio with a codeplug file from a source radio? I think I ran across that situation with my Astro Sabers between the Type II and Type III radios and with my XTS3000 Type II radios some time ago and I had to make separate codeplug files.

Finding the same model type radio that was acquired/flashed many decades ago from the same batch of radios will be near to impossible to do today.

It's not that they are finicky, the CPS checks the destination flash and serial never to ensure the codeplug in the source, will work in the destination radio.

If the source has a type2 trunking system with Astro voice talkgroups, and the destination radio has a conventional, analogue only flash, none of the trunking or Astro personalities would be compatible in the destination radio.

 

[tcarro15]

Co-worker has it on his XTS3000 VHF rig I believe I can ask but doubt he will.
Question, does it have anything to do with your classifieds item ??? You do offer to program it and asking for someone else to do it for you? I could be wrong and forgive me but sure sounds like it.

MINT Motorola VHF P25 XTS3000 - Will Program

I have a MINT XTS3000 VHF P25 Digital Portable Radio with Impres Charger and two batteries up for grabs. I will custom program it for you within reason. It's currently programmed with Texas DPS, Texas Forest Service Fire and VTAC Interop...

forums.radioreference.com

No, I program everything by hand in CPS. I am looking to compare my work with a functioning codeplug. I don't need anyone to 'program it for me, for someone else'. I've been programming radios for 30 years my man. I just need to do some comparison and see what discreps there are with the database versus a funcitoning codeplug with active channels, that's all.

it was just a 'never hurts to ask or try' type request. I didn't intend on it to turn into a major thread lol.

I also meant UHF not VHF, but I can't change the post either. CHP is all low band and UHF high / 700mhz. It was late and I was tired when I posted it.

sorry about that

 

[nokones]

No, I program everything by hand in CPS. I am looking to compare my work with a functioning codeplug. I don't need anyone to 'program it for me, for someone else'. I've been programming radios for 30 years my man. I just need to do some comparison and see what discreps there are with the database versus a funcitoning codeplug with active channels, that's all.

it was just a 'never hurts to ask or try' type request. I didn't intend on it to turn into a major thread lol.

I also meant UHF not VHF, but I can't change the post either. CHP is all low band and UHF high / 700mhz. It was late and I was tired when I posted it.

sorry about that

That is correct, CHP is Low-band for the main Patrol Operations and UHF, but the XTS3000 won't be of any benefit for the Low-Band system. The CHP used the UHF System for Dignitary Protection details with a couple of exceptions. One being was for Capitol Protection Operations in Sacramento and the Bay Area Trans Station (whatever they call it) in San Francisco.

The was no UHF coverage along the North Coast, the East Side of the Sierras, and the High and Lower Deserts.

 

[es93546]

Yes. It's a Motorola specific term.

It refers to all the parameters you configure in CPS, then send to the radio to make it operate how you want it to.

once you configure and set all the parameters and write it to you radio, you can create a file from it, called an archive, and that file uses the extension *.cpg when you save it to your drive.

Over the years, myself included, people started to refer to these files that you create for other brands of LMR gear as codeplugs as well. It kind of caught on.

Thank you. Now if you can define "CPS," I would appreciate it.

 

[nokones]

Thank you. Now if you can define "CPS," I would appreciate it.

CPS = Customer Programming Software, which is the Windows version programming software. RSS = Radio Service Software which was the DOS version radio programming software, just in case you need to what RSS was back in the day.

 

[es93546]

CPS = Customer Programming Software, which is the Windows version programming software. RSS = Radio Service Software which was the DOS version radio programming software, just in case you need to what RSS was back in the day.

DOS = Disk Operating System??

 

[n3obl]

DOS = Disk Operating System??

Yes referring back to days of MS-DOS pre windows...