mt2000 programming problem

kd7tqn · Post by **kd7tqn** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:38 pm

Hi, i have an ex Railroad mt2000 that a friend (retired railroad engineer who was allowed to keep his radio) wants programmed up. well when i try to read it in the rss i get an error saying "protocol entry error" asks me to f2 for refreshj and 10 to exit. when i do a com test in the pc config i get an error "cannot aquire busy line error". i am using an acutal motorola rib with an oem programing cable and RSS ver 06.04.00. i am funning this on pure dos 6.22 on a 75mhz 486dx4 with 16 mb ram. i can sucessfully program maxtracs, gp300s, and spectras with no problem so i dont think its a computer speed or L1, L2 cache probelm.
what could be the probem here?

Jason

HLA · Post by **HLA** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:55 pm

take a pencil eraser to the contacts on the side of the radio and make shure you are getting a good contact.

kd7tqn · Post by **kd7tqn** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:09 pm

tryed that, still didnt work

good idea though

Jason

Rick Rock · Post by **Rick Rock** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:42 pm

1) Are you powering your RIB from a battery or a power supply?

A) Battery- change it/ check it's voltage.

B) PS- make sure you are getting power into the RIB.

2) Make sure your computer is set to the right comm port. Sometimes RSS will default to a different port, even though you saved it.

kd7tqn · Post by **kd7tqn** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:12 pm

brand new battery, checked com settings, they are correct.

kc7gr · Post by **kc7gr** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:54 am

kd7tqn wrote:brand new battery, checked com settings, they are correct.

The next suspect, then, is your cable. OEM cables, particularly some of the Taiwan specials on greed-bay, are sometimes not all they appear to be. Can you successfully use the same cable on another radio?

Rick Rock · Post by **Rick Rock** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:01 am

What is the model# of the MT2000?

How many pins are on the cable end that connects to the radio-3,4,?

kd7tqn · Post by **kd7tqn** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:20 am

the guy im programming it for its his cable. and i tested it with my mulitmeter and all the programming pins check out. it has about 6 or 7 pins. the 3 for programming go to the correct pins on the rib, double checked it to the diagram in the info page.

model @ is h01kdh9aa7an

could the railroad have done somthing to the radio so it couldnt be programmed? i disassembled it and checked the internal board for the side port to see if they taped over the programing pins, they didnt do anything that i could see.

Rick Rock · Post by **Rick Rock** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:30 am

Check the pins and make sure there is no continuity between them. That radio only requires 3-4 pins, so I am not sure what the other 3 are even there for, but it sounds like someone made it from a speaker mic, and most likely didn't clear solder traces and jumpers.

kd7tqn · Post by **kd7tqn** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:32 am

i taped over the other pins that werent used for progrmaming and it still didnt work. ill check for that also though.