Help w/ Programming Cable

[rpgaun]

Good afternoon all,

I’m looking for a rib box serial to USB cable. I purchased a serial to USB adapter but can’t read the radio. The radio is a Spectra Astro Mobile.

I’ve looked all over but haven’t found one to date, Any assistance is greatly appreciated

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

 

[a417]

A RIB box serial to USB? Doesn't exist.

Those radios were produced before USB was a thing. Serial & RIB are the way to go. People will tell you they "had a friend who did it", but confirmations are nearly impossible. I have an ancient USB to serial that allows me to program XTLs in a VM on linux, but it's got more hacks than a B rated hollywood slasher movie, and I absolutely won't give you the details on what I had to go thru to get it to work.

Go here, and have all the pinouts you could want for radios of that vintage. They are trivial to make. If you're really into working with radios that could have voted 10 years ago, you need to understand that the crap you find on amazon & ebay reporting compatibility might not actually be true.

What's the actual model number and what head do you have on it?

 

[clbsquared]

Good afternoon all,

I’m looking for a rib box serial to USB cable. I purchased a serial to USB adapter but can’t read the radio. The radio is a Spectra Astro Mobile.

I’ve looked all over but haven’t found one to date, Any assistance is greatly appreciated

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

Reverse that. What you need is a USB to serial adapter. Then you need the serial to RIB cable. I can confirm that a USB to serial adapter will work with a RIB for programming the Astro Spectra series radios using Windows 7 on a 32 bit machine. It even works on the MTS series radios as well.