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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?