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\n>John,
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\n>My apologies for that one, I glanced on it in passing when looking
\n>for other MPD and MPA stuff and being I already have a price
\n>industries rib box (paid 70 bucks for it at the time), I didn't give
\n>a better look at it. The first impression of it in the photo
\n>indicated it was the rib box.
\n>
\n>I'll make a point to look more closely at a model number before
\n>going forward with pointing something out to someone in the future.
\n>
\n>Gary Mic
\n>KI4WPI
\n>
\n>--- On Thu, 9/3/09, larribeau <john.larribeau@...> wrote:
\n>
\n>From: larribeau <john.larribeau@...>
\n>Subject: [GE-Mpa] GE programmer on eBay.
\n>To: GE-Mpa@yahoogroups.com
\n>Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:15 PM
\n>
\n>
\n>Ouch, I got bit again.
\n>Got a lead about a GE RIB for sale on eBay, #120444722205.
\n>It is listed as a 19A149654 radio programmer. Did a Google search on
\n>that part# and all hits called it a radio programmer!! !
\n>It is not. It is a radio data interface.
\n>DESCRIPTION
\n>The Radio Data Interface (RDI) is a protocol converter to
\n>allow a device to communicate with a mobile via an RS-232
\n>interface and a sample protocol.
\n>The Radio Data Interface (RDI) unit connects RS232
\n>devices over an EDACS trunking system. It converts and
\n>buffers data between a standard asynchronous RS232 device
\n>such as a mobile data terminal (MDT) and the EDACS radio's
\n>serial control bus.
\n>
\n>Manual is LBI-38335
\n>
\n>Does anybody need one. $20.00
\n>Thanks
\n>
\n>73's KR6MR john
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