[SMCARA] CM 300, HT1000

[William S Merritt]

A review of Motorola situation as I know it:

-Motorola fiercely protects their software rights and licensing. That is 
why you will not see adverts or trading of their programming software 
among hams.   They DO prosecute.
-It is possible to go through the registration process at their website, 
but they price their software for commercial users.  Last I got 
interested in Motorola gear, I found the software alone was upwards of 
$400, not including any other fees, equipment, etc.
-Again, last I knew, programming software would only run on a native DOS 
machine, i.e. true Intel 386 or (possibly) 486 processor.

*Yes, Motorola is out to make every dollar they can and make it 
difficult for anybody to encroach on their empire*

-Check for availablity and cost of programming before buying any Moto 
equipment.  Nothing worse than getting stuck with hundreds of dollars of 
(great) equipment, with no way of programming.

-Best bet is what you are doing here.  Find a kind soul with software, 
cables who will help you out.  Some Two-way radio shops sometimes offer 
price discounts to hams for programming.  Others don't want to be 
bothered at all.   Unfortunately cell phones have greatly reduced the 
number of radio shops.

Good luck!  Moto makes great gear, and it can be surprising to discover 
the difference in signal quality between commercial and wide/multiband 
ham gear.   bill, KB4QAA



On 9/24/2014 3:29 PM, Marty Airhart wrote:
> I acquired a working Motorola CM300 VHF 25-45w 32-channel.  Does anyone have
> aces to a RIB and serial cable for Motorola?  RSS software for the 300?
> Some of the ham websites also advise it can be tuned to include the 145 mhz
> repeaters, though they are out-of-band, using Commercial CPS R05.16 (US)
> from Batlab.  (all the sites that it is banded for connect to N3NO anyway)
> So it is somewhat academic.  I have a slower windows version (2005) that
> should be able to run the software under DOS.  Thanks!  Marty, KB3ZIX
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SMCARA mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/smcara
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:SMCARA at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> Message delivered to merrittws at earthlink.net
>
>


-- 
Bill Merritt
KB4QAA/3