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Attempting to program a Sys Saber VHF portable. When attempting to read the radio, this error appears: Serial Bus Error....Could not aquire busy line. Turn off radio and try again!!!

I have tryed two computers, another radio, and checked the RIB to Portable connections....and using a motrola RIB....Still the same error.

Open for ideas..

Jim

requires a slow pc 486 or less

I tried it on a 286 laptop and got the same responce from the RSS.

Either the RIB to radio cable is bad or the accessory connector on the back of the radio is bad. I believe this error message means that the RSS is not seeing the radio.

Check to be sure that the RSS is addressing the proper serial port and that the battery in the RIB is good.

Are you using Systems Saber RSS or just Saber?

Check your cable between the computer and the RIB. I just went through this grief on my HT600's and it was the serial cable. I bought a plain old 9pin to 25pin serial modem cable and it ended up not having a wire from pin9 to pin22 which is the busy in line.

If your using a Motorola rib then check that weird 15 pin cable they used for the serial port connection. Could be a bad connection in that as well i would imagine.

Well the problem got solved... That 9 volt battery. What was strange was being able to program a regular saber with regular saber software with no problems using the current battery.

Using the System saber software with the System saber portable it would come up with the error.

Changed the battery.....No more problems.

Thanks to all for their help and suggestions...

Jim

Whoa..Hope you're using both the 9v battery and an AC adaptor. Those 9v's don't have much juice and its possible to brick even a Saber if the thing konks out mid-write. That battery is really there to back up the AC supply.