As of this post (mid 2016) the current major version number is 13.LA region (South America) for DGM and DGP radios.EMEA region (Europe) for DM and DP radios.AZ region (Asia, Austrailia) for XIRM and XIRP radios.AA region (North America) for XPR radios.There are several versions to serve different geographical regions:.Although I have it running on 10 right now. From what I’ve read, Win7 seems to be more reliable than 8 or 10. The software’s official name “Motorola CPS”.
#REGION HACK FOR MOTOTRBO CPS SOFTWARE#
On the other hand, if you are a small business, a club, have more than just a couple radios, or simply can afford the ~300USD price tag, you should really should just pony up the money and go 100% legit, you’ll get better support and software updates. If you look hard enough you can find it posted on forums out there (Please don’t ask me for links or to share software, pirating software is illegal). A lot of people are probably going to disagree with what I’m about to say: But, if you’re a just one ham with one or two radios, I see no reason why you should feel bad about pirating this software. Especially since the software is ~300USD and you can generally buy the radios for quite a bit less than that (used). No matter how loud we are, Motorola sees us hams as tiny little sliver of the market an acceptable market loss to keep their dealers happy and in business, this isn’t likely to change anytime soon.Īll that said, I still think its kind of bullsh*t that individual hams have to shell out the big bucks to legally program legally obtained hardware. The needs of an amateur and a small business aren’t terribly different, a hypothetical budget version of the CPS for amateurs could be used by small businesses in place of going through a dealer. 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. 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.
#REGION HACK FOR MOTOTRBO CPS 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. 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. 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.
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