var q IcomRadioSerialNumbersAn overview of the Motorola Radio Service Software RSS, the Radio Interface Box. RIB, their history, problems and some solutions. Dont forget  Whenever. Motorola, GE, Icom, Yaesu. Kenwood, E. F. Johnson, or any other, remember to make a copy of the. Just save the code plug to the codeplug archive directory on the hard. Its much. better to waste a few kilobytes of cheap hard drive space on a backup. More details in the RSS article below. Much of the information presented below was compiled from information. Motorolas RSS is such a pain to use and why the. Other information was contributed, some. Schamburg. postmark . You can pack a lot of plain text on a 1. MB floppy. These articles attempt to cover some of the problems that the. DOS based i. e. preWindowsNT2. XP era. Motorola Radio Service Software have, where the problems came. While the articles are Motorola specific, some of the. Basically, always run your RSS in pure MS DOS or PC DOS version 5. COM port and this does. NOT mean a DOS window in ANY version of Windows If. there are icons on the screen, or a START button is the corner then. IT IS NOT PURE DOS As said on the front page of this web site, Repeater Builder is NOT. YOU do. If you misuse any RSS, or run it. DOS Window, or on a too fast computer that makes it crash or. An overview of the Motorola Radio Service Software RSS, the Radio Interface Box RIB, their history, problems and some solutions. eHam. net is a Web site dedicated to ham radio amateur radio. Over the last several years the company originally known as the Land Mobile Radio Division of General Electric Company has been sold several times. COM 3 WinKeyer it is best to assign WinKey to the lowest port to avoid loss of CW if another port is activated for CW COM 4 Radio 1. Icom ICF7000 and ICF8101 Programming for Amateur Radio Service ALE Nets, Selcall, and Interoperability HF Communications, HF Network, Ham Radio. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNEDRead the first four articles below thoroughly and understand them. First, some clarification on how RSS is identified. Each series of radios for example the Spectra, the Radius. Maxtrac have their own RSS. And despite how much one. Saber handhelds use a. RSS than Astro Saber handhelds. Radius handhelds even. RSS than the Radius mobiles. Moto sells the RSS. Each RSS. software package, like each manual, has a part number, generally. RVN or HVN. So if you have a Maxtrac, it uses Maxtrac RSS. If you have a. Radius mobile it uses Radius mobile RSS. If you have a MCS2. I just need to control 2 antennas a 3el SteppIR for 206m, and an AlphaDelta DXB 16030m. I have a Unified Microsystems BCD14 controller board but need an Icom. Interfaces for Use with ALE Computer to Radio The following information is provided as an aid in constructing, using, and understanding computertoradio hardware. RSS made for that radio. If you tried to read. MCS2. 00. 0 with, for example, the RSS that is for the Radius. GM3. 00, Spectra, GTX, Maratrac, MTR, MSF, GP3. Some RSS supports multiple radios for example, the GM3. RSS. package supports the GM3. M1. 0, M1. 20 and M1. This is because the M1. GM3. 00, the M1. 20. M1. 30 are two channel versions. The GM3. 00 was designed from. RSS knows about and supports all four series of radios. View and Download Icom ICF610 instruction manual online. UHF Trunked Radio. ICF610 Transceiver pdf manual download. JVC Kenwood Co., Ltd. will release 70 special limited HF 50 MHz transceiver TS590SG 70 with a TRIO logo as a model commemorating the 70th anniversary of. The SX28 is one of those receivers that just about every ham has a passionate opinion about. No other communications receiver, even those that are better. Some RSS part numbers contains other RSS. For example, the Desktrac. The stock radio. chassis inside the Desktrac housing are Maxtrac mobiles, plus there. The RSS package for the Desktrac contains two different programs. Maxtrac mobile package, the other programs the. Desktrac station. However the mobile RSS wont work if the radio chassis inside has. GM3. 00. a common amateur radio mod since the. UHF Maxtrac comes in either a 4. MHz or a 4. 49 4. MHz. range and is not too happy being pulled anywhere much below 4. GM3. 00 comes in a 4. MHz and a 4. 38 4. MHz. range and covers the UHF repeater band quite nicely. Trunking radios generally used different RSS than the conventional. Maxtracs. used different RSS than their trunked cousins. A typical RSS part number, for example, is RVN4. The trailing letter on the number. As an. example, the most recent version as of this writing. Maxtrac RSS is is K, identified on. RVN4. 02. 0K Revision R0. Jun 9. 7. It happens to be the RSS for a. Maxtrac. The revision or version number only comes in to play when. Moto updates that particular RSS. Naturally revision 2 is later. And the version number of the RSS is. Revision or version numbers typically have a leading letter. The overall number starts with R or B Ive seen one D and. I think that was a transcription error or typo of B, as. R0. 7. 0. 1. 0. 3a or B0. R stands. for Release or Revision theyve. B stands for Beta. To reiterate, the Version Numbers or Revision Number. RSS itself since when referring to the version or revision number. RSS part number is being considered. For example, R0. HVN8. 17. 7. RVN4. RVN4. 04. 3, RVN4. RVN4. 07. 7, HVN9. RVN4. 00. 1 to name just a. R0. 5. 0. 0. 0. 0, and all are. So, from the above, you can see that what is critical is that. RSS has to be the correct one for. RIB or RIBless     And whats a RIB A newcomer to Motorola radios has to first understand the question. Many people do not understand the parameters of the decision to go. RIBless cable versus a RIB and one or more dumb cables. Whats a RIB Its a Radio Interface Box a multifunction black. It does voltage level conversion from the RS2. It handles the busy signals between the radio and the RIB and the. RIB and the computer for. Spectra. 3 It combines the data stream from the radio to the computer and from the. RIB and the radio for those radios that neeed it, like the Maxtrac, GM3. GP3. 00, etc. The RIB goes inbetween the serial port also known as the COM port of. It has its own power source, which can be. There are manufacturers that build so called RIBless cables. You need. to understand that there are two different types of RIBless cables those. DB9 or DB2. 5 serial plug on the computer end, and those that. USB connector. We will discuss the DB connector ones first They arent really RIBless as. RIB circuit that works most of the time and some manufacturers. COM port on. the computer. These expensive cables are capable of programming a limited. GP3. 00, GP3. 50, GTX, Max. Trac, Radius. Mobile, GM3. These cables are very attractive. The USB connector cables essentially have BOTH a USB to serial adapter. AND the RIBless circuitry in the connector shells. These USB RIBless. USELESS on any DOS based RSS as DOS has no concept of USB. Windows compatible RSS or CPS package available. CPS runs only under Windows. Some of the CPS runs under. Windows 9. 5, some run on Windows 9. Windows 2. 00. 0. Windows 9. 5, 9. 8 and ME had some USB support. NOT count on it. Again. USB cables then you are limiting yourself to Windows 2. RSS or CPS and a very limited number of radio types. My presonal opinion Id build or buy a real RIB and a dumb cable because if. RIBless cable you will never know if it is the USB to. RIB circuit, the radio, the inconsistent USB. Windows, or. Some inexpensive RIBless cables purchased from ebay just dont work, and for. Hong Kong, Tiawan. China. In many cases they speak English only until they. Every single person that I know that has bought a RIBless. RIB for one. of three reasons 1 He gets a better radio, for example graduating from a GM3. Max. Trac. that can use a RIBless cable to a Spectra or Syntor X9. Hes damaged the expensive RIBless cable just try and get a schematic of. The RIBless cable is inconsistent this first showed up with a friend. GM3. 00s and a few Maxtracs in his extended family a couple. Civil Air Patrol, several more for for ham radio 6m, 2m and UHF, all. UHF ones include the GMRS channels, another is the dispatch base at. The. chinese RIBless cable he purchased would program some radios but not. My real RIB and homemade cable did every one, every time, and. As I said above, either way sooner or later every single friend that had a. RIBless cable decided sooner or later that a real RIB and a repairable or. Another reason to avoid the RIBless cables is the outright cost. Each. RIBless cable will set you back US4. You can buy a project. Radio Shack and build a RIB on perfboard for less, or build one for. I built my own RIB several years ago and. MSF5. 00. 0, HT6. MT1. 00. 0, P1. 00. HT1. 00. 0  MT2. Maxtrac, Radius, Maratrac, Spectra, Syntor X9. I use quality metal shells on the DB connectors.