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PRM8041 and 8025 programing
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:51 am
by billyr85
hey there everyone just wondering if anyone owns similair radios and have sucessfully programmed them i have with a number of program i've of the net but when it goes to read the radio it says its the wrong firmware. Any help would be great. Thanks
Bill
Re: PRM8041 and 8025 programing
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:17 pm
by vk6hgr
billyr85 wrote:hey there everyone just wondering if anyone owns similair radios and have sucessfully programmed them i have with a number of program i've of the net but when it goes to read the radio it says its the wrong firmware. Any help would be great. Thanks
Bill
Hi Bill.
The PRM8025 is a trunking radio so you'll have to program it with the trunking software (and you'll probably only be able to have a few standard channels in it)
Same for the PRM8041. You can fit a dual-mode EPROM to it (so it works in both trunking and conventional mode) but unless it says so when you switch it on, it'll probably be a trunking-only unit and will need the EPROM changed.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:38 pm
by vk6hgr
Any luck with these, Bill?
Re: PRM8041 and 8025 programing
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:34 am
by PRC-495
Wish you luck in finding what your looking for
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:24 pm
by celestial_insight
I have a PRM8010 but my software says it can't connect with the radio. The radio is switched on, prog cable connected to com1 and mic socket, and I have tried FPP v3.00 and 4.00 (and tried v1.3 too). I have been using moslo to slow the PC down for programming. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:47 pm
by celestial_insight
It maybe coz I'm running xp. I have just found the following which may help anyone else in a similar situation
*******For windows xp, FPP must be run totally from floppy******
Go to MY COMPUTER / 3.5 FLOPPY-right click / FORMAT FLOPPY and tick
the box
"create an msdos startup disk" .Also copy the FPP folder from your hard
drive onto the floppy. If it wont fit you can delete the large help
file that is in the folder.
To make it easy to run FPP from floppy, do this below
On the floppy disk is autoexec.bat
which is executed automatically upon boot, place these commands in there
Just right click on autoexec.bat and
edit. Add these commands...
(if your directory structure is same as below)
cd 8030V4\BIN
prm8030.exe
If not change to suit your own,
and save.
Then reboot computer - go to bios and enable "floppy drive seek" ,
Also choose boot to A drive
Then Reboot (you will boot to floppy) and FPP will automatically run, entirely from floppy.
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:18 pm
by celestial_insight
Ah ha! Worked perfectly!