ASTRO SABER PROGRAMMING CABLE

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medic40917
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ASTRO SABER PROGRAMMING CABLE

Post by medic40917 »

ANYBODY KNOW WHERE YOU CAN BUY A ASTRO SABER PROGRAMMING CABLE. THEY RETAIL FROM MOTOROLA FOR $300.00. THATS JUST TOO MUCH TO SPEND IT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
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Post by chad_g69 »

i get my cables from 'Scanshop' on ebay (riley96)

got 4 cables from him at about $50 each depending on what cable

NEVER had a problem :) he is a fast shipper, and the cables work GREAT

chad
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Post by alex »

Monty does a lot of selling of homebrew aftermarket cables, and stands behind his work. I do not know what he charges per cable, but from what I see, he does good work, and a great person to deal with. I suggest emailing him over sending a PM.

-Alex

Quality always comes w/a price :)
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Post by Code3Response »

Throw in another for ScanShop. Just got my MCS2000 cable on Saturday and its awesome and works great!
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Post by kf4lhp »

I'm another satisfied customer of ScanShop. Bought a Jedi cable from him, no problems at all with the many MTX, MTS, and HT1000s I've programmed so far!

Built my own Maxtrac cable, but that's different... :D

--mws
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Post by Pj »

I took my saber cable, changed pin 6 to 8 (or what is 8 to 6? -- see batlabs) and Bam! Astro Saber cable.
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Post by chad_g69 »

Pj wrote:I took my saber cable, changed pin 6 to 8 (or what is 8 to 6? -- see batlabs) and Bam! Astro Saber cable.
since i have a saber and a astro saber, i took my saber cable and installed a switch, that lets me change from analog saber to astro saber

chad
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Post by CHEFA2001 »

Rather than altering your factory or aftermarket, saber or a/s cable, pickup a little adapter from radio shack which has the db25 on both sides and make the required jumper changes, this works great as I have used that for a few years before getting teh nerve to purchase a genu-"wine" motorola astro cable.
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Thanks for the compliments guys!!!!!!!!!!
watchbuddy
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SHIPPING

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Yah! He Is Sure A Fast Shipper (Hee! Hee!) :o
Has it all and the best quality I have seen in a long time!. Keep Up The Great Work Their Phillip!
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Post by Monty »

HI:

For those interested in a [ multi-Mode ] Astro / Saber
program cable, I have both Factory ones & Clones

My clone Cable is made Perfectly, with all the proper
cable supports @ both ends for Commecial Use. With
a Adaptor I make, you can use the Normal Saber Propgram
Cable, and immediately have a Astro-program Cable.

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The Saber Cables I sell above for 85.00, and the Adaptors
for 30.00

If you are a Die Hard, Do Flash Programming, I can offer
you the Facotry originals for 195.00 and I also have the
RTX4005B Series Test Boxes too

The reason the Factory Astro-Saber Cables are so
expensive is they have the Flash options

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Monty
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