[SMCARA] CM 300, HT1000

[Richard (KG3BOZ)]

Concur. 

The first rule of /\/\ otorola software is not to talk about /\/\ software. 

73 DE KG3BOZ

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Rene Ramirez <w3bnyren at gmail.com> </div><div>Date:09/24/2014  17:05  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Bill Merritt <merrittws at earthlink.net> </div><div>Cc: SMCARA Reflector <smcara at mailman.qth.net> </div><div>Subject: Re: [SMCARA] CM 300, HT1000 </div><div>
</div>And he ain't kidding unfortunately
On Sep 24, 2014 4:55 PM, "William S Merritt" <merrittws at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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
>>
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