I see that even the new Mustang has a fender mounted antenna - has Ford given up on the window antennas and why? I had just gotten used to seeing cars with no external antennas and never expected to see them again.

It's orange to ignition and green to battery + unless you want to transmit with the iginition off then both to battery +. And both to iginition if you don't want anything to happen when the ignition is off.

I believe the DES capable MX's were about 3/4 of an inch or more longer than the standard radios. And there would be a switch but I don't recall what is was.

When NiMH's first came out I got one for my radio and it worked great - so I ordered them for everyone else, about 30 radios. A disaster, I never leave my radio in the car -Arizona at 115 degrees today. Those that did leave them in the car (like all weekend) ruined them in less than 60 days. Motorol...

I've had good luck for several years with Stico 800 MHz cell look alike antennas - yes in black always. Most often I used their 800 MHz/VHF combination if you have a need for anything other than 800 MHz. Also used their stand-a-lone antennas when needed - even the little stingers.

I believe the latest version for the System Saber is 4.0 and I'm not aware of a version 6.0.

Are you using the motorola belt clip on these radios? My son has one of these and uses the belt clip rather than the holster type carrier and had the same problem. Solved it several years ago by having him remove the battery from the radio each night before recharging. Wearing the radio for 10+ hour...

Reading the above post reminds me of something my Motorola account rep used to tell me whenever I questioned some of his pricing:

"Mac, You can buy better but you can't pay more".

But I still kept buying them.

Motrac from the sixties - same radio as was in the presidential limo in Dallas in Nov. 1963.

You don't need a long programming cable, you need a long PC to RIB or serial cable extension and you can make that quite long. I've run serial cables ove 50 ft. without a problem and would think you could go much longer. Years ago I debated this question with a Motorola shop for quite a while until ...

I believe 16 modes is the maximum in each scan list and even that is kind of slow - but you can have several mode slaved scan list.