MCS2000 flashing - what cable is required?
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MCS2000 flashing - what cable is required?
Anyone know if the programming cable documented on Batlabs (http://www.batlabs.com/images/mcs2k25.gif) will work for flashing the radio?
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spectragod
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Re: MCS2000 flashing - what cable is required?
That looks right, the factory part # is RKN4063.tvsjr wrote:Anyone know if the programming cable documented on Batlabs (http://www.batlabs.com/images/mcs2k25.gif) will work for flashing the radio?
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Revelation 6:8
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Revelation 6:8
Re: MCS2000 flashing - what cable is required?
Cool... trying to be cheap and avoid paying $150 for a DB-25 to DB-25 cable (albeit with their special DB25 on one end...) Assuming there's nothing missing in that schematic, my redneck version will work nicely.
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motorola_otaku
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Re: MCS2000 flashing - what cable is required?
If you wanted to make it look nice, you could order the factory DB-25 accessory plug for the radio end. It comes with the right-angle flush hood, connector, and some pins, and its part number is HLN6412A.
Re: MCS2000 flashing - what cable is required?
Eh, I don't do too many MCSs... never really got into that family of radios. My current cable consists of a DB-25 to DB-25 wired properly based on the Batlabs schematic, then a male-female DB25 ribbon cable with one end cut down to plug into the radio. It's a wee bit ghetto, but it is electrically sound...