Can i clone ht 1000 to another ht 1000

[albertaboy]

Hi very new to this and dont know anything
I purchased 13 ht 1000 radios 16 channel but only 4 are programmed to work together
Can i clone them all to work together , just want to use them , for paintball and hunting
What would i need and is it even possible to do ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks

[Tom in D.C.]

Do you have a license to operate these radios? That's the first
place to start the procedure. Your government, as well as mine,
takes a very dim view of unlicensed radio operation except for a
very few frequencies.

For more information on the HT1000 go to http://www.batlabs.com and
look under Model Specific Information.

[albertaboy]

No i didnt even know these require a liscence , do all 2 way radios require a liscence ?
I guess i should just sell these radios and buy ones that dont need to have a liscence

[Tom in D.C.]

Yes, virtually all commercial-grade two-way radios require the user to
be licensed. In the US there are a few VHF and UHF channels that don't
require one but these are low power. You probably have a similar
setup where you live, though it wouldn't be the same as in the US.
The HT1000 is a professional-grade radio and is used by police and
fire agencies in many locations. You might wish to investigate an
area where you can run your radios which is the field of amateur, or
ham, radio. The site to look up the general subject would be
http://www.ARRL.org. In the meantime I would suggest that you not try
to use your HT1000s because there's a fairly good chance that do
so would interfere with a licensed user and that would mean big
trouble.

[albertaboy]

Thanks alot tom for the info But i still would like to know about cloning because i have never heard anything on these radios

[Tom in D.C.]

Do a search on this Board for "cloning HT1000."
You will find that to clone the radio requires that
you buy a licensed copy of the software, called
"RSS," from Motorola, then you will need special
cables and a special Radio Interface Box, or "RIB"
for short. All together the cost would run you in
the neighborhood of USD$500 or so, and that is
if Motorola will sell you the RSS, which they are
pretty picky about doing. You could take a couple
of the radios to a radio shop and pay them to "read"
the radios so you'd know what frequencies are now
programmed. This would cost a few bucks but
nowhere near what a programming setup would
cost.

[N4KVE]

Doesn't a cable exist where both radios are connected by 1 cable to each other without a computor. I've seen this done with HT 600's. Push a button on both radios, & they clone to each other. No need for a rib or RSS. While I'm not condoning this, 154.60 or 154.57 should work fine. That's the freq for low pwr jobcoms. While your radio is hi power, you won't interfere with any systems. Again I dont condone this, but you should be fine there. I myself have a few MTS 2000's on FRS & have never had the jack booted thugs kick my door in. GARY N4KVE

[HLA]

there is a cloning cable but it only works if both radios have the exact same model number, not one digit off but the down side is that the cloning only copies certain frequencies and pl's and does not clone things like signaling. and the biggest problem i see with your cloning idea is that you don't know what frequencies you are copying that are already in those radios, what if what is in them right now belong to a local pd or fd and you clone all of your radios and start broadcasting on their frequencies. you need to get a license and a legit frequency for your area that will not interfere with anyone else then get the radios programmed for that frequency.