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Program Uniden With Mot. RIB
Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 6:40 am
by John G
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!
Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 11:27 am
by n5tbu
Hello....great news for me!
Can you simplify a little as, in pin #? of the mic to pin #of the rib?
Thanks....Mark
Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 4:56 am
by John G
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.
Motorola RIB
Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 7:41 am
by Cowthief
Hello.
The RIB will also work for the kenwood th-f6 and th-f7.
Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 2:41 pm
by n5tbu
No luck on my uniden smu300 and polaris rib.
Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 6:42 pm
by Nand
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.
Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 8:08 pm
by jbxx
Think it might work on BK?
J.B. AD6WX
Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 11:24 pm
by 963Expert
Tell me how to make this work on an E.F. Johnson and I'll be your friend!
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 12:17 am
by n5tbu
Nand,you were right,4 and 6 on a db9,or 6 and 20 on a db25,
works great now!
Thanks guys!
A1
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 8:00 am
by Susan157
Bye Alex
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:10 am
by Jonathan KC8RYW
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?