Program Uniden With Mot. RIB

John G · Post by **John G** » Sat May 24, 2003 6:40 am

I don't know if anyone cares, but I discovered that you can program most of the older Unidens with a Motorola RIB. I had an AMX501 that got lost and rather than shell out big bucks for another, I decided to see if my non-Mot. RIB would work. It was pretty easy. Uniden uses a single data lead for TX and RX. That goes to bus +, pin 15 or 24. They also have a lead they call "write" which is just a busy lead to tell the radio to go into programming mode. That goes to pin 6, busy. Connect a ground to pin 1 and you are all set. I don't know how many Unidens this covers, but it will do the SPU454, SPS320, SMS8xx/9xx, anything that the AMX501 worked with. Enjoy!

n5tbu · Post by **n5tbu** » Sat May 24, 2003 11:27 am

Hello....great news for me!
Can you simplify a little as, in pin #? of the mic to pin #of the rib?
Thanks....Mark

John G · Post by **John G** » Sun May 25, 2003 4:56 am

I haven't done a mobile yet, but here is the info I have: Pin 2 on mic. to pin 1 on RIB, pin 4 on mic. to pin 15 or 24 on RIB, pin 5 on mic. to pin 6 on RIB. As I said, I have not yet actually done the mobile. The info I had for the portable had the write and data reversed, so if this doesn't work the first time, try reversing 4, 5 on the mic.

Cowthief · Post by **Cowthief** » Sun May 25, 2003 7:41 am

Hello.

The RIB will also work for the kenwood th-f6 and th-f7.

n5tbu · Post by **n5tbu** » Sun May 25, 2003 2:41 pm

No luck on my uniden smu300 and polaris rib.

Nand · Post by **Nand** » Sun May 25, 2003 6:42 pm

n5tbu wrote:No luck on my uniden smu300 and polaris rib.

I made something like this years ago for a SMU300 but also had to jumper pin 4 to pin 6 on the computer side.

Nand.

jbxx · Post by **jbxx** » Sun May 25, 2003 8:08 pm

Think it might work on BK?
J.B. AD6WX

963Expert · Post by **963Expert** » Sun May 25, 2003 11:24 pm

Tell me how to make this work on an E.F. Johnson and I'll be your friend!

n5tbu · Post by **n5tbu** » Mon May 26, 2003 12:17 am

Nand,you were right,4 and 6 on a db9,or 6 and 20 on a db25,
works great now!
Thanks guys!

Susan157 · Post by **Susan157** » Mon May 26, 2003 8:00 am

Bye Alex

Jonathan KC8RYW · Post by **Jonathan KC8RYW** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:10 am

didn't work with my Uniden SPU51KT portable.

I even tried the jumper on the serial cable, as mentioned above.

I'm using a real /\/\ RIB, as well.

I got the following message:

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Exception: ACK not recieved in timeout period. (RD0) @xmsg VR.CPP 1027

Any other tips?

PS: Does anyone have a scan of the schematics of a "real" Uniden RIB?

Program Uniden With Mot. RIB

Program Uniden With Mot. RIB

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