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Yup I noticed that last night as I was staring at the same pinouts.

See what happens why try to compare tech stuff at 4am?

Are these cables the same? I would assume they are the pinouts look identical too.

Yet for some reason I can't read a new in box KMC!

How do you enable scan for conventional channels? Scan button works, but I can't seem to add members to the list besides the selected channel.

Ideas?

PM here or batlabs.

EDACS 3 does the MPA yes you can program RX only per talkgroup No versions do not matter like it does with Motorola. What does matter is If you use the windows based (EDACS4) PROgrammer you will not be able to read the radio with DOS, unless you overwrite the existing personality with DOS, then it w...

switched easily - its just a change in the software - no hardware issues.

Yep they will all do conventional.

Orions are really nice radios!

Ok I've done a bit more digging into the behavior of this radio. The radios VCO locks on all 6m freqs I have in it on RX - all the other freqs work just fine on tx for the most part. I've noticed the high split repeater inputs on 53Mhz do cause a no lock condition. Rather interesting the RX side of ...

I've seen other orions that work fine in this segment so I'm pretty sure its a tuning issue with this specific radio. I don't have a scope/monitor here (I can get one) to look at it just yet. When the radio does lock it appears to be fine with 100w power ouput and what appears to be decent rx sensit...

So the question is full alignment or do I just need to tweak the upper end of the VCO tuning range?

I think someone may have tried to move the tuning window down a bit instead of up on this particular radios.

Its a MA/COM branded Orion from 97.

Well, interesting point here. First of all you can still program an Orion with DOS afters using PROgrammer, you just can't read it. Orion does take the out of band channesl except this particular model gives me an error code and displays NO LOCK on 51-55 Mhz freqs. Error0401 Oddly enough to does TX ...

Been in contact with USPSS regardining the dual configurations. I'm getting really close to dumping the A9 spectras and using all Orions for the mobile install.

Anyone know where to find one of these besides brand new from Federal Signal or MA/COM?

yet another question, is there a difference between the smart siren hookup for the S825 head and the Orion?

Haven't noticed my MPA loosing the channel when right next to a tower.

interesting

ok I re-read Halle's site and you right I missed the info!

and yes that's what I'm looking for

Got and M-PA now, would like an LPE but an M-RK is one of their best radios and pretty rare.

It’s Model # is PK2ZGT
It’s serial # is 275816

I know its 800 Mhz and system... is it conventional, EDACS?

THe model # chart on halle electronics l is incomplete for the M-RK