Gm 360

[big T]

Good Evening
   I have two Questions that I hope somebody will help me I have one of these radios fitted to an ambulance response Bike Should mention that I am one of three Radio Comms Officers for One of the Leading Volunteer Services We are only allowed to use Motorola Radio Products for our vehciles Any way back to the Questions Sorry for that pressed the return button and sent it
Anyway the questions The one fitted to the bike has decided not to power on Using the Remote haed from my vechile I determined that the radio is OK as it poered mine up The head on the bike did flicker to live and displayed error message briefly that read Test 8 failed Anybody know what this fault is and is there a document with these faults available which will give the resolutions to repair or replace The second question for my own set I want to start trying to Flash Update the radio I know that this could make an expensive paperwieght if it goes wrong what version of update should I use and how to do i get it

Thanks in advance for any help

Tony 

[emsgeorge]

Test 8 Failed - led flashes Eight times  = Radio Model Number failure. Reprogram codeplug for correct model.

When was the last time you programmed it - it would appear it doesnt like the codeplug in it. write a new codeplug to it, has solved problems before.

The flash for the radio comes comes with your programming software. Rob will sell you the software on here, as he is a motorola dealer. Im sure you will have a copy floating around as a comms officer, somewhere in the organisation.

By the way, Red Cross are going tetra at the end of this year (and are slowly pushing out a changeover now), so if you are with them, dont spend too much money on radios at the moment, its all about to change !

[big T]

Hi
 Thanks for the reply Ihave checked the code plug and it seems ok the flash is just a project for me
I am with STjohn Ambulance we have looked at the possibilty of tetra but as we have got so many divivsions that all have vhf radios it has been decided that only a few vechicles and divisions will get some as the sets are expensive and the divivsions are responsible for the purchase of any addidtional sets

Regards

Tony