I have read several Phoenix chips and have programmed
for several here on the list, with varied results. I
don't have a Phoenix to check out myself, but several
of the chips I programmed worked and some did not. I
programmed two for one fellow here on the list and one
worked for him and one did not. Both checked the same
here when I did the /V verify after programming them.
I have started doing a /W write a couple or three
times each time I program before doing the /V verify,
and have had no problem at all when doing that. But
all the chips will /V verify OK right after
programming. One that was sent back to me after I
programmed and returned it did not have the same code
at all in it when I got it back, so don't know what
went on there.
A Phoenix radio sometimes only has 2 freq, and the GE
programmer puts some strange code in channel 2 and
then puts the second frequency in channel 9 for
channel 2 on the radio. If you have a working chip on
the old freq, you might want to leave that strange
code in channel 2 so channel 9 will work as your
second channel. I don't think this is a problem for
the 16 channel radios.
On the Rangr radios that I program, I always program
all 16 channels, even though I am only going to use
channel 16 (the channel selected if you do not connect
anything to the channel select pins) Just replicate
the frequency you want in all 16 channels and it works
OK.
Good luck with the programming. Sounds like you have
not gotten past the computer to programmer
compatability problem yet, so keep trying. You have
probably gone back into the BIOS on the computer you
are using and selected the right parallel interface
protocol, but if you have not selected the one the
docs call for, that might be the problem.
73 - Jim W5ZIT
--- Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This one is a nice pro looking pcb. I'm trying it on
> a chip from a
> Phoenix SX.
> Strange...may be that something went bad the first
> time I tried.
>
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