XTL/XTS5000 XTS5000 FPP Help

[chuckhodge]

Hi everyone,

I have a XTS5000 model 3 that I am trying to get some assistance with. This unit has the Q52 and Q53 features to allow front panel programming, which is "sort of" working. I am not sure if I am just missing something in there CPS or this is a limit with the model and firmware. I have researched this quite a bit and what I am seeing don't match any solutions I have found. Here is what I am seeing:

- Currently the radio is only allowing FPP in Zone 1. I have FPP set as a menu item on the display, and can select it while in any zone. However it will only let me modify the settings for Zone 1.
- When I select FPP from the menu and enter the password, it shows Zone 1. I cannot scroll through any other zones to select to edit. I did note that a left press on the 4-way arrow button goes to a "blank" reading for the zone and crashes the radio if I try to select that. Not sure if this is related.
- The FPP for zone 1 works fine and allows me to change frequencies, tones, etc.

I do have the "Zone Cloning Enable" button checked in the CPS radio-wide setting with a password set (which is needed to FPP Z1). When I try to select the button for "FPP Enable" on a zone in the CPS it will not let me check it and shows the "view only" glasses icon.

So basically I have a working FPP zone with 16 channels, which I guess I can live with if needed. However I have a separate zone with GMRS channels and would like to go in and change tones, etc.

Radio/CPS specifics:
Flashcode: 5A9008-101F87-7
Firmware: R20.50.05
CPS: Astro25 Portable R20.01.00

 

[K2NEC]

Whoever depot'd that radio didn't know what they were doing...

Anyway, that's the problem with FPP. It's very picky and finicky. I had almost the same problem with my XTS2500 and I was told there was nothing to fix it since it wasn't a radio problem per-say but an FPP problem. I dumped that radio because I hated using it and programming it.

 

[a417]

Whoever depot'd that radio didn't know what they were doing...

Or they knew exactly what they were doing, and dropped a Nick flashcode into it.

 

[natedawg1604]

I wonder how many Federal agencies actually used FPP on the XTS? From what I understand it was designed for Federal agencies way back when.

 

[FFPM571]

FPP was designed for the Federal wildland firefighters few other agencies needed FPP I have an XTS5000 FPP where all the zones are FPP but each channel has its own personality that is FPP enabled..Once I programmed it with CPS I really never needed to change anything unless I wanted to update a channel on the fly. I kept one zone blank as a spare that incase I needed to do work in the field