Cables Required to Program the Motorola Radius The cables and connectors required to program your Motorola Radius will vary from computer to computer. If you have a newer model computer, chances are that you do not have a serial port. If you have an older model computer, you are probably in luck. To see if you have a serial port on your computer, look at the connections for a port labeled “Serial”. It will have nine pins and look like the picture. If you do have a serial port, you do not need to purchase the USB Serial Port Adapter listed below.

Motorola Radius programming instructions using Windows. Learn how to program your Motorola Radius GM300/GR300/M10/M120/M130 with DosBox and RSS. GM300 Programming Software that works with Windows XP. The download went well. Soglashenie o nekonkurencii s rabotnikom obrazec rk 10. I cannot get the radio to communicate so I will head to the forums. Download successful. The software runs on Windows Vista 32bit. I search the cable diagram to programmig the Motorola GM340 on VHF 144 MHz Ham radio band. Thank you 73, Bird from Tunisia.

Recommended Cables & Connectors Listed below are the recommended programming cables and connectors required to program the Motorola Radius. I have received a few conformations from others that they do work as expected. • RIB for Motorola – • Power Supply for RIB – • Radio Programming Cable – • USB to Serial Port Adapter – (only needed if you don’t have a serial port connection on your computer) Other Cables & Connectors There are other programming cables that may or may not work to program your Motorola Radius. It is best to use the recommended cables and connectors listed above.

– Some cheap USB serial port adapters do not work to program your Motorola Radius. I had to trash two different USB serial port adapters before I found one that worked for me. Getting Setup to Program the Motorola Radius The first thing you need to do is get your hardware setup. Plug in your USB Serial Port Adapter to your computer. Attach the Motorola RIB to the USB Serial Port Adapter.

Finally, attach the programming cable to the RIB and your transceiver. Note: If you have an existing serial port on your computer, just plug your Motorola RIB to the computer and the Motorola programming cable to the RIB and your transceiver. Shrift kassovogo apparata. We now need to make sure that the USB Serial Port Adapter has been assigned port COM1 or COM2. This can be accomplished by checking the Device Manager.

The Device Manager can be accessed by bringing up the Start Menu and typing “Device Manager” in the Search Programs and Files area. Starting Motorola’s Radio Service Software Now it’s time to see if we did so far is correct. Let’s start DOSBox and see what happens. You should see a welcome screen that tells you to push any button, and then the following screen below. If you see this screen above, congratulate yourself! You have successfully configured DOSBox to run Motorola’s Radio Service Software.

Now comes the part that just about everyone has trouble with.. Getting your Motorola Radius to communicate with your computer. Cheap programming cables, and too fast of a CPU speed (on your computer/DOSBox) are the main cause of this problem. We already discussed what cables worked for me. Now let’s go over how to slow down the CPU speed.

Slowing Down the CPU Speed in DOSBox While DOSBox is running, hold down the “Ctrl” key and press “F11” until the CPU Speed (displayed in the title bar) reaches somewhere around 191 cycles. If you went too far, hold down the “Ctrl” key and press “F12” to raise the speed back up. I was able to successfully program with a CPU Speed of up to 400 cycles. Configuring and Testing the Motorola RSS Now it’s time to configure the RSS, and test the connection between your computer and your Motorola Radius.

If it’s the first time saving that file then that will pop up, since there’s no such file created yet. Go ahead and save it anyway and that will fix the problem. Another reason this can happen is the drive letter not being correct for how the drive was mounted. For example, if I mount my D: drive as the C: in DOSbox, I have to make sure the path I set corresponds to that and set the path as going to drive C:, not drive D: (because DOSbox will change it to the correct drive when it comes through).

First, my compliments on a great resource you’ve created here. Your work on it is much appreciated. Second, like many others here I’m also encountering the “Error #7 INVALID OP CODE” problem. The PC I’m using is one I built myself, specifically for amateur radio, so it does have a native serial port.

The cable is from KJ6ZWL, as is the RSS software. Under Win 7 and the latest DOSbox I get the error flashing on the screen very briefly and then the “Radio Communications OK” message when testing the comms. Attempts to read the radio result in the same error displayed and failure. At the same time, in the DOSbox status window I’m seeing a serial port error that the RX buffer overflowed. This makes me believe the problem is a handshaking issue, that either the radio or the computer is not pausing when it should. I’ve tried experimenting with the handshaking (XON/XOFF, hardware, none) to no effect, but this was with DOSbox and RSS running, so changing the settings without exiting and restarting DOSbox may not have any effect.