R100 Repeater - Part Loose

[rileym]

Recently acquired an inexpensive R100 in UHF.

It is a H5016B.

The small board (called interface board) that is connected by pins to the larger board on the inside of the cover was pushed out and to the side when I received it. (Board also has cables running to various places on the larger board, and a splice of wires running to the J-aux (parallel port looking connector) on the side.

I am wanting to confirm that the pin placement is correct, and that the board should be connected, since I have only seen one photo (below) which seems to show how it is set (with two pins unnoccupied at the top...)?



Thanks,

Matt

P.S. Image credit to Repeater Builder.

[Will]

Mat,

You can remove the Interface board and the hard wired connections from the large control board. I t is only used when the R100 was hooked to a phone patch or Extended local deskset(s).

[rileym]

Makes sense. Thanks.

Is there any advantage to it?

[Will]

Makes sense. Thanks.

Is there any advantage to it?

Not that I have seen as most all R100 repeaters do not have phone patches or extended desk sets on them any more.

[rileym]

Ok, so got to booting the thing up today... It works, just looking to reprogram now. I got the software to run in plain DOS on my P3 (which is the slowest computer I own at the moment...) Do I need slower, the repeater doesn't respond to the read command...?

[Will]

Yes, the RSS for the R100 was written way back in 1988.

So you will need a slow old computer like a 286. That is what I use. The software navigation is a real bear to master, it uses F keys and other tricks.

I remember there was a small text file that has the navigation keys outlined, here on BatBoard.

[rileym]

Thanks will.

The slowest computer I have at the moment is a pentium....

Has anyone been able to program one of these things with anything faster than a 286?

[rileym]

Attempted to program with a P120 and 16mb ram.. Slowest computer I still have...

No luck.

I knew I shoulda kept those 4-5 386's I had in the basement at one point...

[Bill_G]

Have you tried Mo'Slo? Google mo'slo, dl the software, and if it doesn't work right away, read how other people had to configure their Pentiums. You may have to be in dos, and not a dosshell under Windows.