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HT600 Deviation

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jimbob2258

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Does the HT600 need a special cable to be able to set deviation. I have the 4 pin programming cable and get serial error 011 when trying to set deviation. I used to have a Motorola cable and didnt have any problems. Any assistance is appreciated.

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Programming cable

Does the HT600 need a special cable to be able to set deviation. I have the 4 pin programming cable and get serial error 011 when trying to set deviation. I used to have a Motorola cable and didnt have any problems. Any assistance is appreciated.

JimB

I may be unfamiliar with ".. the 4 pin cable ". The only thing I ever used to program HT600's was a cable that plugged into the speaker/mike pad, and the other end was a octal (I think) plug that goes into a test box. It's been a while since I've programmed a HT600.

What is the 4 pin cable you are talking about? Are you able to program freqs and PL's with it?
 
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It's the same cable for any procedures on the HT600, they did make a service cable which had a bnc pigtail for rf output for testing but the programming connection is the same.

Take a pencil eraser and buff the contacts on top of the radio and clean the pins of the programming cable. If your getting that error i assume you can't read or right to the radio either? Try a read, then go into service to set the deviation.
 

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Ht600 programming cable

I used to have the Official Motorola cable when I had a shop. Never had any problem. I ordered the $20 ebay cable with the 3 pins and it will read the radio and allow freq change and tone changes but gives serial errors on anything service related. BatLabs schematic shows another ground which I added. No joy! Maybe the computer has problems with that old software. I will try another computer from the dark ages to see if it might work. Thanks for the refresher on my old memory. Old timers is catching up with me.

73 Jim
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