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Today I received a spare XTL5000 brick from a friend. My intention was to use this brick with a W4 head as a nice looking retro desk radio. The radio lived it's life as a remote mount O5 setup; though I received it without any TIB.
I haven't gotten the W4 head yet, so I popped on a known-good W7 head, connected up power and ign sense, and there was no sign of life. Couldn't talk to it through rear serial either. Weird.
I threw on a O-series TIB and connected it up to a spare O5 I have lying around, and what do you know, it booted right up! Strangely, I was still unable to program through the rear port. I was able to program through the CH GCAI USB, and I ran a Control Head change, thinking maybe this was some strange codeplug problem. That went smoothly....
Popped the W7 back on, no joy. Not able to talk through the rear serial still...
Judging by the fact that I'm unable to talk to it through rear serial, my theory is that perhaps the rear accessory port got damaged in shipping or sometime during it's lifetime, and it's not seeing the ign sense signal, hence not powering up the W-series head. Has anyone ever seen something like that before? The friend told me he's programmed it through rear serial before but it's been ages.
Not too concerned about it because it was a less than $50 splurge, but it would be nice to see if any of you smart people have any insight. Thanks!
Today I received a spare XTL5000 brick from a friend. My intention was to use this brick with a W4 head as a nice looking retro desk radio. The radio lived it's life as a remote mount O5 setup; though I received it without any TIB.
I haven't gotten the W4 head yet, so I popped on a known-good W7 head, connected up power and ign sense, and there was no sign of life. Couldn't talk to it through rear serial either. Weird.
I threw on a O-series TIB and connected it up to a spare O5 I have lying around, and what do you know, it booted right up! Strangely, I was still unable to program through the rear port. I was able to program through the CH GCAI USB, and I ran a Control Head change, thinking maybe this was some strange codeplug problem. That went smoothly....
Popped the W7 back on, no joy. Not able to talk through the rear serial still...
Judging by the fact that I'm unable to talk to it through rear serial, my theory is that perhaps the rear accessory port got damaged in shipping or sometime during it's lifetime, and it's not seeing the ign sense signal, hence not powering up the W-series head. Has anyone ever seen something like that before? The friend told me he's programmed it through rear serial before but it's been ages.
Not too concerned about it because it was a less than $50 splurge, but it would be nice to see if any of you smart people have any insight. Thanks!
