Not sure how useful it will be outside of niche situations, but definitely thumbs up for creativity and execution.
Even with it being a niche product, I can still think of quite a uses for this. Nice work!

How many channels are assigned to the existing zones? You are only allowed to have a certain amount of total personalities assigned in zones, so if you have personalities repeated in multiple zones, you may not be able to assign the full amount of personalities that the radio supports as selectable ...

I dont really know what you are asking with the first question but I use serial cables for programming whenever possible so I have never had an issue. Rufus allows you to make a DOS bootable flashdrive. You open Rufus, select the flashdrive from the list, choose filetype, for this you would pick FAT...

Honestly its easy enough to just make a bootable USB for DOS that its not really necessary to do a dual boot or mess with your partitions if you aren't sure what you are doing, even though it is not too difficult to learn. Look up Rufus. All you have to do is take an old flashdrive and reformat it t...

I use a CF-30 for programming both Astro25 and jedi radios. I use a DOS bootable flashdrive for the older jedi radios that require DOS and windows 7 for the Astro25. I use XP mode for everything that doesnt like windows 7.

I have no experience with it, but I know that kawamall makes one. I have 5 cables from them and had very good success with their cables in the past. I should note that I use serial cables whenever possible to eliminate USB driver issues.

I've noticed the whitening of the rubber for sometime now. I read somewhere a while ago that said it could be the result of the chemicals in the plastic basically outgassing and evaporating, leaving the plastic dry and brittle. I don't really have anything to add to the removal discussion, but I hav...

The channels are in the correct order but did you go into the zone channel assignment screen and make sure the channel order lined up with the personality order?

I have to look through my archive, might have a vhf one.
I don't have access to the radio, so if I don't have it I can't get it, but I'll take a look.

Some answers: 1. The astro product line is no longer supported, so you should just use whatever the final release was. (I for get off the top of my head) 2. That version of CPS is for the Astro25 line: XTL, XTS5000, Spectra Plus, etc. What you have is from the regular Astro line, not Astro25. 3. You...

I figured I should finally make a post after being a member for so many years and never posting. For those who don't know, I've been around for a while, reading and just never posting here. No particular reason, just never have. Some older members may recognize me from p25/CS where I used to be a ve...

You don't need a rib for either of those. The xpr uses USB and for the ht1250 there are both USB or serial cables available cheap enough with no rib needed.

Hey As a longtime lurker/somewhat recently registered user here I figured it was about time that I post something on here to say hi. Im definitely not new to the radio world and some of you may know me from P25.ca aka communications.support as I have been a member and relatively active poster over t...