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radios:tait8200 [2023/05/15 23:26] – 2e0sipradios:tait8200 [2023/05/16 12:53] – 2e0sip
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 ====== Images ====== ====== Images ======
  
-TODO: Images+A Tait TM8235 with a 3 digit standard control head: 
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 +{{:radios:tait_tm8235_front.jpg?direct&600|}} 
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 +A Tait TM8255 with graphical display control head: 
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 +{{:radios:tait_tm8255_front.jpg?direct&600|}}
  
 ====== Models ====== ====== Models ======
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 {{:radios:tait_tm8100_rj45.jpg?direct&400|}} {{:radios:tait_tm8100_rj45.jpg?direct&400|}}
  
-===== Hints =====+====== Hints ======
  
   * The help menu in the Programming Application is very detailed. Worth looking at.   * The help menu in the Programming Application is very detailed. Worth looking at.
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   * To upgrade the radio firmware see [[radios:tait_tmxxx_firmware|Tait TM8XXX - Firmware upgrades]]   * To upgrade the radio firmware see [[radios:tait_tmxxx_firmware|Tait TM8XXX - Firmware upgrades]]
  
-==== Control Head Notes ====+===== Control Head Notes =====
  
   * A TM8235 control head seems to work fine on a TM8200 body that was previously using a Graphical Display Head.   * A TM8235 control head seems to work fine on a TM8200 body that was previously using a Graphical Display Head.
-  * A TM8100 head seems to work on a TM8200 body TODO: Confirm 1 and 2 digit display head works and number of channels that can be programmed+  * A TM8100 head seems to work on a TM8200 body. Channel limits aren't enforced, so you can program 11 channels with a 10 channel TM8110 head, but channels greater than 9 will be truncated on the display.
   * A TM8235 head kind of works on a TM8100 body. The speaker, buttons and display work, but the backlight and the status LEDs don't work. There is also some strange flickering behaviour. It's not clear if this could potentially damage something, so best avoided.   * A TM8235 head kind of works on a TM8100 body. The speaker, buttons and display work, but the backlight and the status LEDs don't work. There is also some strange flickering behaviour. It's not clear if this could potentially damage something, so best avoided.
   * From the manual: "TM8200 bodies and High-Tier heads must both have matching Firmware versions in order to operate correctly when assembled" If they don't, the screen will display "Firmware mismatch" or words to that affect. If you try to upgrade the firmware whilst in this state the programming software will time out. The trick is power off the radio (fully, not via the control head) kick off the firmware download process and then power up the radio. This might take a couple of goes, but the radio should then start to upgrade the firmware   * From the manual: "TM8200 bodies and High-Tier heads must both have matching Firmware versions in order to operate correctly when assembled" If they don't, the screen will display "Firmware mismatch" or words to that affect. If you try to upgrade the firmware whilst in this state the programming software will time out. The trick is power off the radio (fully, not via the control head) kick off the firmware download process and then power up the radio. This might take a couple of goes, but the radio should then start to upgrade the firmware
  
-===== 2E0SIPs Random Notes ===== 
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-**WIP as I go along. Ignore** 
  
-  * Latest calibration software is v4.09.00 
-  * F/W v6.02.00.0001 enforces "FCC Narrow Banding" which requires a Software Key to use channels wider than 12.5kHz, which we don't want. Note that the latest f/w available from the Tait groups.io page is v6.02.00.0002 but the filename is truncated, so avoid it. Instead go for V-6.01.00. 
-  * Radio body "Radio Application" files seem to be prefixed with QMA, for the control head its QCA.