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The RIBless cables for other Astro 25 radios have already been reverse engineered... my suspicion would be that the "guts" are the same, just different connectors for the different models.
All of the ASTRO-25 mobiles (XTL-5000, XTL-2500, XTL-1500) use the same connection for programming....finally - they keep the same programming cable for the ENTIRE family of mobiles!