MPA Ham Code release levels Release....Function Added ------------------------------------------------------- [1992:] .....Original Release (16-channel only) [1994:] Ø894a......DTMF sidetone switch Ø894b......TXID sidetone switch Ø894c......Alphanumeric channel lables Ø894d......NOAA Weather Alert decode (1050 Hz) Ø894e......NOAA Weather Alert auto-reset function Ø894f......220 MHz Reset fix Ø994.......Nuisance delete 1Ø94.......Direct CG tone entry (no more tone table!) [1995:] Ø295.......CH-1 Nuisance delete fix Ø395.......Four channel banks (64 channels = 16-channels x4 banks) Ø595.......Battery save / menu fix Ø695.......Bank selective scan Ø795.......VFO Mode & bank scan flag 0795a......Band Scanning 0895.......Band Scanning with skip function [1997:] 0397.......Auto repeater offset; DTMF bug fix; Battery meter; 900 MHz synth fix --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of 30 September 2005, to avoid confusion for the list membership, only the final version of the HamFlashcode (0397) is archived in this files section, as the earlier versions are obsolete. de KB4CVN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posting Notes on HamFlash: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark Cobbeldick" Date: Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:12 pm Subject: M-PA Ham Code...more data kb4cvn The chap who invented and wrote the Hamflash code was a software engineer in Lynchburg during the Ericsson era, and left the company in 1997. It is the sole (intellectual) property of its creator, but he does not restrict its use today. So much time has passed, it is no longer an issue to openly distribute anymore, hence my uploading the final version to the FILES section of this list. The hamflash was never supported or endorsed by the radio's manufacturer. The hamflash effort was his personal quest for a commercial grade keyboard programmable radio, to be used solely on amateur frequencies. Basically done at home after work, over pizza and beer with a DOS computer. He is a ham, and like Jim R. stated yesterday, and has retired to the West Coast. I will not mention his name or callsign, as so folks will not pester him about the code. (More on that later) This code was written for internal use only by Ericsson's Lynchburg employees who were also licensed amateur radio operators. The fear was if the code got out into the hands of the general public, the business/public safety crowd would flash their radios with it, voiding the radio's FCC Part-90 type acceptance approval. If during the time this radio was actively being marketed by Ericsson, the FCC voiding the radio's type acceptance would have been disastrous for the manufacturer, and would have prevented them from ever selling a M-PA again! The M-PA line was introduced in 1989, and discontinued in 1999. Service Parts stocking by the factory ends 31 December 2005. Product support by the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) officially ends on 31 December 2008. But the M-PA will be with us for many years. The last two orders the factory built were some encrypted 500 MHz/4 Watt EDACS units for a city in New Jersey, and several thousand encrypted 410 MHz/20 mW EDACS units for shipboard use on US Navy 'HYDRA' (AN/SRC-55) radio systems. --- In GE-Mpa@yahoogroups.com, Gary Peterson wrote: > Jim; > > Any chance there's a copy of the hamflash source code around??? > > Gary > NZ5V Gary, I doubt it still exists. The story I heard last year from a personal friend of the hamflash's creator was that he gave away all his M-PA's several years ago, and no longer uses them. Mark KB4CVN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------