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I just wanted to let everyone know that a new information page has been made public on the RBTIP, Repeater Builders Technical Information Page, website for the Motorola Saber.

http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorol ... index.html

Contact me with any revisions, suggestions, information. If you can fill in the missing module part numbers or any other info let me know and i will forward it on for addition to the article. I'm not a Saber know-it-all by any means, just doing my best to compile the information in one spot and make it widely available.

Thanks!

Almost forgot, there is also links to articles on that page for other aspects of dealing with the Saber, including Hex editing of the RSS for wider bandsplits.

Hey Scott, Great article!

Thanks!

I also got a comment about the securenet modules and i think it's a good idea to seperate them out further. As to which modules are Systems Saber and which are plain old Saber. That will go on my todo list.

The info keeps on rolling in!

Thanks to KG6SLY, he provided the missing receiver and FDS part numbers for UHF splits.

Anyone know any of the module part numbers for the lowband radios??

I was like.. Wow.. they put up a saber information page, I remember throwing a bunch of information towards WA6ILQ quite a while ago and discussed putting the information up.. Imagine my surprise to see that the page you posted about is by the two of us.. lol

On a side note, people can also PM or E-Mail me with stuff to be added and I'll forward it on..


NB2E

Yeah, i was going to try sending you a PM but it got lost in the daily grind here.

When i contacted Mike about adding a Saber page he mentioned that he had the material from you and that he was going to post the page and make it public but couldn't re-establish contact with you to get it approved and released for public view.

I just told him to leave the content you had already provided and just include/combine it with mine. Turned out rather good actually! And it saved some time having all the info to build one large page. I also sent him some pictures today, internal with and without modules, showing a secure model with a jumper added instead of a bypass module, etc. Hopefully that stuff will make it on there soon.

Along with some great input from the guys here on the batboard i have been able to compile a bunch of the missing module part numbers to revise it also.

holy CRAP!!!

good work guys...

only thing I would add, that I saw "right off" is the "color codes" for the antenna's, since the antenna's dont have part #'s printed on them, looking at an antenna,KNOWING that it's VHF(or uhf) and being able to recognize a color, would be more helpful than a part # IMO

GOOD POINT!

Do you know all the color codes off hand? I believe that some of them are like the Genesis series, Yellow is for low split 136-150, Black for mid 150-162, Blue for high 157-174?

from BATLABS.COM(what a co-inkydink)

Trying to figure out which frequency split you helical antenna is for? Look at the paint on the connector:

VHF-YELLOW 136-151MHz
VHF-BLACK 151-162MHz
VHF-BLUE 162-174MHz
UHF-RED 403-435MHz
UHF-GREEN 435-470MHz
UHF-BLACK 470-512MHz

That list looks good, forgot about that one on the batlabs site. However, every blue antenna i have seen was sold as 157-174 not 162-174.

lol

this isnt just a forum ya know :-p

yeah, can't live without the Motorola Laboratory