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That I don't know. I don't have the ability to program the GM300's to see how it's been setup. I've continued to try and play around, checking the manual and cross referencing things and I'm just, lost.

Yep. Works as intended. This is why I'm so confused. I'm thinking about scrapping the rick and just patching radio to radio.

So I got some jumpers and got 13v out of pin 13 and pin 7 as ground (radio is upside down). I mirrored it to the RICK as the connectors would be and I'm still not having the rick power up.

Welp I gave that a try with pin 7 being my ground and pin 13 being +12v. And both radios were giving 13.2v. I'm suspecting that it may be my patch cables. If it is, I'll feel really stupid. I'm going to just order new connectors and rewire the patch myself in hopes that my problem. Ive douted it being them since it worked with my GM300's and these are 16pin fully populated. sorry to be a inconvenience.

Hello and thank you for helping. Yes I've been using the power switch to try and get power onto it. The patch cables have all 16 pins populated for both radio and rick ends. I've adjusted the programming to what you have noted. The TX radio the COR is now null and on RX radio pin 3 is now also null. Thanks for that insight. I've also opened the rick and my dip switches are set to what the manual worksheet has for my needs. Even with all this, I'm still not getting power sent to the Rick. So I'm stumped again. Could it be possible that there are jumpers in the CDM's that I'm missing? I've opened one up and didn't see any.

Hello Internet. I'm trying to use 2 Motorola CDM1250 radios for a repeater configuration with a motorola RICK, and I'm having a difficult time trying to get the cables from the CDMs to power and control the Rick. I know the rick and cables work because they came out of my working GR300, but they won't now. I'm confident it's some settings in the CPS but I've played around with it extensively and I've became exasperated. There's some magic setting I'm missing. Does anyone have an idea? **Pin 4 and Pin 12 on the RX radio is set because I want to use the RICKs knockdown feature where if I transmit a DTMF tone, it'll kill the TX repeater with ignition sense.

Unfortunately I got a battery with the same serial too. Plus weird behavior. When put on a impress charger, it will only attempt to recondition the battery and never charge it. I left it on for 3 days with no change of the chargers status light. When I attempt to read the Impress data on the radio it just says "Unknown Battery", and it displays this when booting up too. Time to get a refund. ?

Hello, and congrats on your new radio! The CPS/programming software you are looking for is ASTRO 25 Portable CPS which is a discontinued product from Motorola and they dont carry/offer/sell that software anymore (as far as im aware). Your best bet is to have a shop program it for you, find a friend who has the CPS or if you get desperate, find a seller on eBay who offers programming. Hope this helps!

The license allows 25 units total and we only have 19 radios because so many are broken, stolen and who else knows.

At the theatre, they have bought all there radios and are not leased, most of them are Kenwood TK-3302-U models. They use 464.xxxx in analog and the theatre/house owner is the licensee for the frequencies. We dont use a repeater but just 5 channels for our tasks. That's why just adding 5 more channels to a radio im already using would be nice to have and plus I wouldn't have to take one from work when we are already short on them. As for my EFJ being part 90, im okay with "risks" of using it for GMRS part95 debate as I would rather reuse/recycle the radio in this manor and put it to use rather then have it end up being e-waste. Plus its cool to play around with odd, unique and different equipment that just... works.

My first and favorite radio I got for GMRS was a XTS3000. I went ahead and customized it with a neat "toxic/radioactive" (lol radio) scheme. Might not be Part95 but I'd believe we should put a old radio to use than to just have it end up as waste!

Hello Internet, I have a EF Johnson 5100 that I use for GMRS and I also work in theater which uses UHF radios. I would like to know what I would need in order to appropriately use my personal radio for work so I can use my one radio for everything. I know at some point I saw a post about getting written permission from the operator but I cant find that post and im having a difficult time going through the book of the gods to find the information I need. I know the frequencies that are used and the house owner is okay with me doing this, but I want to make sure I do my due diligence in accordance with the rules. Thanks you for the help and input to come

I found a part number, NNTN6945A. Searching for it doesn't seem to bring up much info but there isn't much info on the radio it self anyways.

Here is the battery it currently has. It is PMNN4083CR 1500mAh batt.

Hello internet! Very odd and specific question to ask, but does anyone have or know where I can buy a Motorola XTS4000 belt clip? I have a xts4000 for guest services at work and I love the appeal of the flip phone ascetic and would like to have a better way of carrying my radio aside from stuffing it in a pocket. If anyone has one and would be willing to sell it to me, I'm open to the idea. I've tried my best to find simular ones but generic pouch kinds are unfavorable due to having to flip the radio open to change channels and zones. Thanks!

From you guy's suggestion, I went ahead and looked into a CDM750 and a CDM1250 and I think duel 1250's will work perfectly fine for me. I noticed that they have additional pins but if im not mistaken, the outer 2 on each side can be disregarded and it should be plug-n-play. Ill have to compare the pinouts from the GM300 to the CDM1250 to make sure I dont fry anything, and just to be safe in knowing what im doing. I have tried working with DOSBox on the GM300 but with everything I've tried, I got no luck. I tried it on Windows 7 and Windows XP, changing the serial port settings, trying different cables, and on and on. I really have exhausted my options with it and if I do get it working, learning how to program it will be foreign to me completely. Im sure ill miss some settings that might be a no no. Thats why im wanting a more modern CPS to tinker with and I have successfully gotten my hands on the Professional Series CPS for the CDM. Thank you for the heads up on the eBay listings. I know there can be some bad eggs on there. I usually go to my state surplus first to see if they have anything and that's how I got the GR300 to begin with. They do a good job wiping and removing any passwords on radios when ever they do appear.

So I have a Motorola GR300 that uses duel radius gm300 radios with a Rick. However I can not for the life of me get the RSS or even a XP cps to work with it. Therefore I want to replace the gm300's with something that will still work with the Rick. What should I look into getting?

I seem to have found one at Walmart in the wild! And of course you can hear it working since everyone has there radios on full blast lol! Although this is the CB-200M (or U) version for analog Murs.

I got my hands on one and it looks like the wifi is just for the extra features with a PC that will have the portal software on the same network. However motorola hasn't released the portal software (as far as im aware) so you really cant get that set up just yet. But it works just like a normal DLR radio otherwise in a nicer housing.

Thanks for some good info! I went ahead and got myself a 1500ES with the latest firmware, and the CPS wasn't hard to find and get working on a win10 pc. So far I'm really enjoying it and is a nice radio to have. Thanks for the feedback guys

I'm trying to get away from some of the moto stuff, I've settled on a custom XTS3000, and would like to play around with some other commercial grade radios. I'm not looking for the whole part 90 vs 95 debate, we are all having fun. I found some EF Johnson 5100's for about $80 online and would like to know if anyone has played around with them before. Solely looking to use it for gmrs and to scan some stuff. Any feedback?

So it is really interesting. There is a analog version the CB200-U and M versions. One of which is a Walmart dedicated device. I've got one to play around with and the DLR programming cable will set parameters to the call box but not set special audio files. For that you need a "programmer" which motorola doesn't actually make, Alerttech does. Im trying to get my hands on one of these programmers but its really been a struggle. If you ever worked in target or Lowes and you herd "Customer needs assistance at the home improvement section. Who is responding?" That's one of the call boxes just in a different case made specific for that bisuness. The CB300-D is the DLR equivalent and works the same way. I'm not sure if I would pay the $500 price tag for a one way pager lol but a nice option none the less.

Thank you guys for the great insight! I've actually already have a small case of DLR1060s that I got for cheep (state surplus from a library) and so that's how I got my ball rolling on these but i dont have enough for what I planned to do. There does seem to be a shortage but if that's my largest curve for acquiring a fleet I need then I don't mind playing cat and mouse with it. The gang chargers are just a flat out great idea and I have 3 of those on order from ebay now. Managing the assets from being lost/stolen is concerning but since I'm working with the staff that these would go to onsite, that would give me a better advantage to support and manage them if need be. Maybe I could do a signin/signout sheet kind of thing for accountability... that's a promising idea. As for the UHF/VHF rental experience, we haven't been ecstatic about what we have used before. We have tried the XTS1500's, the HT1250's and the XPR line up. And while they work as they should, we didn't feel that they were really for us. I don't have the details but I do know the coordinators are wanting to continue to try something else, and that's why I'm pitching the idea of the DLRs. I'm betting it's because of the sheer size and bulkyness that 122 radios has eaten up in con ops and shipping back and forth. But they seemed to like the DLRs from the small fiddling around we had and it's why I'm wanting to grab a full fleet. Plus if I'm the vendor, then support and customer service to them could be far easier and better since I'll likely be on site of the event anyways.

Hello internet. I'm a staff member at a organized convention and we have our event about once a year and its a good considerable size. Instead of having to pay the FCC for our own frequencies for such a short time, Im looking to use motorola's DLR 1060 and 110 radios for a cheep, license free, and more secure option as they are designed for. However I would like to put the purchase of a fleet of these radios on my own tab so that I can look into renting them out for other conventions that I work with throughout the year as a way to get the fleet paid off and offer that availability for other cons to use them as needed. Since the FCC licensing shouldn't be an issue, I want to know if there is any issue with using motorola's radios like this. I tried to do my due diligence with my own online research but all im getting is software agreements ect. Any input? Thanks!

And hey! They are finally out now! Im planning on getting a few to test. There audio quality is reported to be significantly improved from past DLR and DTR series.