It’s a slow rhythmic cycle.įlashing: Flashing is a very fast flicker - on and off, once per second repeating continuously. The first thing to understand is the difference between a blink and a flash.īlinking: One slow blink is - on for half a second then off for 3-4 seconds. Kind of simplified, but its also 140am and I am getting tired!What the blinks and flashes mean is listed in the manual for the Genius-II but it’s not really explained clearly. With each major software release these days, you need the same revision (or greater) firmware in the radio to use it. The "4F1E" and "1CE" whore codes were famous for this.Īlso beyond that, with the newer radios and firmware you need current programming software to enable features that are not nessesarly radio options, but enhanced radio features. When a radio is properly flash upgraded, it will rewrite the radios firmware to support the purchased options as well as write the new flashcode. Try to use the option and you'll get an error or failcode because the firmware itself doesn't know how to speak IMBE or use the selected option. You could write it to the radio and it won't complain. If one had a way to force a flashcode into said radio, you could read it in the programming software and tell the radio to talk IMBE (or whatever option) all day long. This happens during the course of the model line life.įor instance in the ASTRO line (Sabers, spectras) IMBE wasn't an option when released. A certain level of firmware needs to be in the radio for certain options to work as well. The flashcode as stated tells the radio what options have been purchased and available to be used. The FLASHcode, or FLASHport radios work hand in hand with the firmware release in the radio. Find the writeup by Batdude and you'll be up to your ears in flashcode stuff forever. The last digit is, I think, a checksum or something of that type. If you code is something like 100000-00000-1 then you have a basic P25-capable radio that won't do trunking (trunking code is in another position) but it will also do analog FM, because ALL of the radios, whatever their flashcode, will do analog FM. The second number in the string will be the same thing, but for additional features. The 1 is for P25 digital operation and the 4 is for enhanced digital display. That number is a combination of a 1 and a 4. Let's say your radio's flashcode begins with the number 5. Each digit is a sum of several flash features, and the first digit of flashcode is often used an a good example. In a nutshell a flashcode is a 13-digit number that describes via code the exact capabilities that have been programmed into a Motorola flashcode radio, such as an XTS 5000 to name just one common model. The OP asked what flashcodes are and how they work, not how to decode them.Ī flashcode description and writeup is available on Batlabs, written by one named Batdude, but you'll have to dig for it either that or send him a Batlabs PM asking for the location. Commercial, Professional Radio and Personal Radio. We cannot jeopardize the ability to provide the RadioReference services by allowing this activity to occur. The benefit is you do not need multiple versions for each radio (unlike Motorola). The conventional package is more reasonable though is still several hundred dollars. The trunked package is in upwards of $2,500. One package is for conventional programming and the other for trunked programming. Often the Kenwood software is less than $100 so don't be a cheapskate just purchase it.įor M/A Com/Harris/GE, etc: there are two software packages that program all current and past radios. Typically each series or individual radio requires its own software package. Please use Google or some other search engine to find a dealer that sells the software. The various other vendors often permit their dealers to sell the software online (i.e., Kenwood). To obtain Motorola software see the Sticky in the Motorola forum. It is YOUR responsibility to properly word your request. We do not want any hurt feelings when your vague post is mistaken for a free request. If you are having trouble legally obtaining software please state so. Your PM's are not private and the administration has the right to read them if there's a hint to criminal activity. Even if you attempt to engage in this activity in PM's we will still enforce the forum rules. The same goes for any private transaction via Private Message. Making a request such as this is attempting to engage in software piracy and this forum cannot be involved or associated with this activity. All requests will be deleted and a forum infraction issued. Please do not make requests for copies of radio programming software which is sold (or was sold) by the manufacturer for any monetary value. To anyone looking to acquire commercial radio programming software:
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