In addition to selling hardware, dealers also make money programming radios. Dealers are typically local businesses that can afford Motorola’s big business prices by supporting a bunch of smaller businesses in aggregate. Small to medium size businesses have the option of going through a dealer.
#MOTOTRBO CPS AA REGION SOFTWARE#
Large customers will buy the software outright. They will charge as much as the market is willing to bear which, apparently, is about ~300USD for a copy of their Customer Programming Software (often abbreviated as CPS). Motorola is in the business of selling radios to enterprise customers, not amateurs. The knock off companies have done a poor job reverse engineering it, and performing certain operations with a knock off cable, such as firmware upgrades, can brick your radio. Motorola has not published what the chip does or how it works, but it does do more than sign/authenticate the cable as genuine Motorola, it facilitates communication between your computer and radio. There is a chip in the cable, between the USB connector and the radio. Motorola has put some smarts in the cable. Please don’t buy a knock off, you’ll risk damaging or bricking your radio.
#MOTOTRBO CPS AA REGION SERIES#
For the XPR series the cable part number is PMKN4012A. For other Motorola Radios models, check here. In general, if you want to work UHF, try to find a radio with a “Q” in position 4 of the model number VHF look for a “J” and just avoid “T”s and “X”s. Shown below is the numbering system for XPR6500 series radios. So, before you buy your radio make sure you make yourself familiar with the Motorola’s model numbering system. I ended up selling the radio on eBay and using the money to buy the right radio. Not great, since amateur repeaters are down around 440MHz.
![mototrbo cps aa region mototrbo cps aa region](https://sehen-natur.net/cvuyqs/dRn7I3SH7gc7aY5xtANukAHaFj.jpg)
The radio I purchased was configured for 450-512MHz. But there’s a catch, there’s more than one flavor of UHF. The one I bought was UHF, which should be fine since the repeaters I want to talk to are UHF. Some are VHF, some are UHF, and some are 900MHz. There are many different XPR6550s out there.
![mototrbo cps aa region mototrbo cps aa region](https://s3.bukalapak.com/img/8428984516/w-1000/DVD_Program_Software_MOTOROLA_MOTOTRBO_CPS_Versi_160_Build_8.png)
Out of the blue, I found one at a garage sale, for far below market value and scooped it up. I had been using a club XPR6550 and decided to look for one. But having moved downstate recently, I decided I wanted to stay involved in DMR, and needed to purchase my own hardware. For a long time I just used club equipment. Some years ago my club (W8YY) joined DMR MARC as the first node in Michigan’s UP.