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HT1000 Programming

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I know everyone is talking about how you need a really slow old computer to program an ht1000 radio, but can i use a bootable usb of dos and a newer computer to program it. I also got a ribless cable that had ht1000 listed but then someone told me that a ribless cable will not work for this radio and a rib box is absolutely un negotiably nessesary.
 

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The Ribless cable I use with my HT1000 works just fine...To program mine I use a older win98 laptop with moslow on it and just boot up in doss mode.
 

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The "ribless" cable actually has the RIB components built into one of the connectors so you're actually still using a RIB. I also use an old Win98 computer (PII, 350 MHz I'm pretty sure) booted into pure DOS and wouldn't try anything newer or faster. You run the risk of bricking the radio.
 

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Your best bet is to try and find an older laptop anything with Win 98 and 95 you can reboot or boot up in true dos mode the computer I run is a Toshiba Portege 3015CT with a 266 Mhz processor and I also run Moslo on it as well to slow it done some.
 

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or you can install freedos on your laptop/desktop...I can program my ht1000 just fine on my panasonic cf-29, intel centrino 1.6ghz , 1.5 gb ram. Im dual booting FreeDos and Windows XP....also using a "RIBless" cable from kawa
 

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Or, format a USB stick with DOS and make it bootable. As long as your BIOS will boot from USB you can do it that way. I have a CF18 with XP and do all my DOS programming from a 1 Gig usb stick. It works just fine.
 

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ht1000 dell dimension

I use a 1gig usb stick with ht1000 and kenwood tk840 software on it. I made it bootable using a win98 boot disk. NOT ALL computers can do this, many of them can boot but cannot access the serial port. However, a dell dimension 3000 with motherboard A02 will do it perfectly. I have 2 of these I've bought specifically for programming these radios. I have a handfull of tk's and ht's and I use this for everything. The boot files I got from bootdisk.com I believe.
 
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