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I just got the RSS for the HT1000. I am a beginner and have many questions. Ill start with basics. I copied files to a floppy disk. Now I know I have to run the disk in dos mode.. Then what..Anyone be able to explain step by step.Or direct me to a website with the step by step help. Thank you all very much. You guys rock and this website is great.

I know that no one likes to do this, but read the manual that comes in the package!

Robert..he never said WHERE he got the RSS.

Anyway.

If you have any specific questions, I can try to help..


Mike

the "I copied files to a floppy disk" should have given it away

Sigh. I do not think it is nice to chastise a newbie.

You will need:

386 or older IBM compatible computer
Genuine Motorola RIB
Genuine Motorola cables from the rib to the radio
Genuine Motorola RSS
MS-DOS (or maybe PC-DOS)


Any variations from this increase the likelihood of making a dead brick, and having to send the radio to Monty for fixing. I hear he charges much more to fix a brick, then he does to program a working radio.

Actually Motorola encourages you to make a backup copy. Or did I read page six of the manual with my Astro software wrong. DOS 6.22 is the best. Check batlabs.com. Sometimes people do not want to RTFM.

blah blah blah....the real thief involved is Motorola.....$399 for Pro Series CPS, and had to go through a friend who has an account because they wouldn't even sell it to me!!!!!!!!! Not quite as much, but same thing for GP300, MTS2000 stuff, I won't comment on where I got that stuff because /\/\'s price is just insane.....If they didn't charge outrageous prices for such BS software, maybe they wouldn't have so much of a piracy problem!!! Take a look at the prices for yaesu & icom software. I paid $30 for my Yaesu VX-5 software, very nicely designed I might add!

Mike

If you're new to programming Jim your best bet would be to obtain the RSS Instruction
manual, it can be ordered thru Motorola parts or EBay seller *voyager* his user ID includes the stars and has them often. Complete how to instructions. If you need to
mod the radio for additional channels or out of band capabilities refer to the model specific info. section of BatLabs.

I'm not sure what the question is, but let me offer the following 2-minute primer.

First, read the radio and then store the codeplug to disk. This insures that you will be creating a codeplug that is compatible with your radio, and it will extract the tuning values that are already in the radio.

Next, go to the radio-wide parameters and adjust them to your preferences. I would stay away from the battery saver function. My practice is to make the top sidebutton (green) "nuisance delete " (temporarily deletes a scan list channel from the scan list) and the bottom side button "monitor," leaving the middle side button "unprogrammed." Likewise, the most operationally useful arrangement of the A-B-C switch it to make the A position "direct, no scan;" the B position "repeat, no scan;" and the C position "repeat, scan." In the scan options menu, disable talkback scan.

Next, go to the channel information screen and specify your channel info.

Finally, go to the scan screen and specify which channels are in the scan list. Again, from my experience, the most useful scan strategy is to make "SelChan" the priority channel.

When you're satisfied, write the codeplug to disk and then write it to the radio.