Hello everyone. First post here, and I hope I'm in the right place.
I have acquired a bunch of 110w VHF W7 Astro Spectras. I have had the same aftermarket RIB and cables for years, never a problem. I had regular Spectras and MT1000s before the astros. Never had an issue. Once I obtained these W7 Astros, I programmed a couple. Not a problem. I then acquired a handful of newer 2.5mhz spacing capable trunk units. I wanted to update to the narrow spaced radios. I hooked on, programmed my first. Excellent. Went to rehook to change the scan list and I couldn't. I would get a couple flashes from the data light and it would say communication error on the CPS. I hadn't been the nicest to my cable from the RIB to the trunk units, so I bought another cable. No change. So I dug out my old DOS laptop and tried to hook to one of my OLD Spectra's with the same cabling and RIB. No go. The RIB always had something loose in it, so I figured it had finally crossed on the circuit board and shorted something and toasted my RIB. I bought another aftermarket RIB. Plug and play. Read and wrote 4 radios, two 2.5s and a couple non narrows, went to read another one of the 2.5s from the stack and I have another dead RIB. Two in a month, failed the same way. Any ideas why my RIB keeps locking up/dying? Is there a way to test parts of the RIBs or reset them per se?
Thanks in advance!!
Ricky
Info as follows:
CPS: R05.03.00 using a COM port, aftermarket RIB with new cabling, Windows XP
Radios: W7 VHF T04KLH9W7AN-UCM 5000010018008
I have acquired a bunch of 110w VHF W7 Astro Spectras. I have had the same aftermarket RIB and cables for years, never a problem. I had regular Spectras and MT1000s before the astros. Never had an issue. Once I obtained these W7 Astros, I programmed a couple. Not a problem. I then acquired a handful of newer 2.5mhz spacing capable trunk units. I wanted to update to the narrow spaced radios. I hooked on, programmed my first. Excellent. Went to rehook to change the scan list and I couldn't. I would get a couple flashes from the data light and it would say communication error on the CPS. I hadn't been the nicest to my cable from the RIB to the trunk units, so I bought another cable. No change. So I dug out my old DOS laptop and tried to hook to one of my OLD Spectra's with the same cabling and RIB. No go. The RIB always had something loose in it, so I figured it had finally crossed on the circuit board and shorted something and toasted my RIB. I bought another aftermarket RIB. Plug and play. Read and wrote 4 radios, two 2.5s and a couple non narrows, went to read another one of the 2.5s from the stack and I have another dead RIB. Two in a month, failed the same way. Any ideas why my RIB keeps locking up/dying? Is there a way to test parts of the RIBs or reset them per se?
Thanks in advance!!
Ricky
Info as follows:
CPS: R05.03.00 using a COM port, aftermarket RIB with new cabling, Windows XP
Radios: W7 VHF T04KLH9W7AN-UCM 5000010018008