ASK was a great blunder on Motorola's part. It pretty much ensures that a surplus radio will REMAIN an active threat to the system it used to be part of long after it's been sent to surplus. With no EASY (and technically legal) fix for it.
If you wanted to secure your radios so that once you sell them they can't reappear on your system and cause problems, ASK is by no means the way to do that. Quite the contrary, it almost guarantees that the surplus radio will ALWAYS be programmed with your system data on it. STUPID.
Why? Because only a holder of the original ASK can remove the ASK restriction on that radio. And since many departments have their own radio maintenance personnel, the odds of getting to that is, paradoxically, quite low.
Granted, there are other ways around ASK. The tool you seek is one of them. Sending it to Motorola's depot is the other.
But the whole thing was one of the dumbest ideas ever hatched by Motorola.
And that's saying a lot!
ASK need to get them unwrite protected :
There is a tool posted over at P25 that are two files, cpfix-ASK_ACK_removal.zip and CpFixFilePackage_ASK.zip.
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