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The Computer Automation Technology (CAT)
Index Page Formerly Maintained by Robert Meister WA1MIK Currently Maintained by Mike Morris WA6ILQ & Josh Hatton W4ZZK |
Important
note seen on the CAT AUTO web site in August 2019:
Since 1989, Computer Automation Technology has provided
quality
repeater controllers and accessories to the amateur radio
community.
Due to changes in the economy, Ron and Al have decided to close the
business effective October 31, 2019.
We would like to thank our many devoted patrons who contributed to our
success over the past 30 years. Ron plans to maintain the telephone
product support line (954-978-6171) to assist our loyal customers with
their concerns.
Best regards, Ron WB4UFA and Al W4MGK
There
are two groups at groups.io for the CAT series of repeater controllers.
The following information was copied from the groups.io pages:
CAT-Controllers
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This group is for those people that are interested in, or are using
Computer Automation Technologies Repeater Controllers.
Created: 10/25/19
As of when this paragraph was added in Feb 2023 there 74 Members.
Computer
Automation Technology (CAT AUTO) Repeater Controller legacy support
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Support for the now defunct CAT Auto repeater controllers: CAT-250,
CAT-260, CAT-200, CAT-300 DX, CAT-300 DXL, CAT-400, CAT-800, CAT-1000-B
and the RLS-1000 Expansion board
Resouce for manuals:
http://www.repeater-builder.com/cat-auto/cat-index.html
Created: 12/05/20
As of when this paragraph was added in Feb 2023 there 35 Members.
In
March 2023, Josh Hatton, W4ZZK, received the permission from Ronald
(Ron)
Eichholtz, of the 'CAT Auto Enterprise' to share the remaining
software and documentation he has on-hand with the Radio community.
Some documentation has
already been captured and shared by Repeater-Builder.com Any
items not previously acquired by Repeater-Builder will be seen within a
list down below.
The CAT controllers were very popular, easy to use, and easy to interface. They seem to work well with most Motorola stations and radios. There are interfacing articles on this web site in the following Motorola areas: MTR2000, MSR2000, MSF5000, and MaxTrac. CAT controllers have also been interfaced to some Kenwood and Yaesu/Vertex mobiles and repeaters and you will find interfacing articles in those areas as well.
CAT-1000 Modem Scripts
By Jim Hartzell WA3UQD A complete programming utility using Procomm Plus. |
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Clock setting utility for
the CAT-1000 by Jim Hartzell WA3UQD Using Procomm Plus to set the clock. |
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CAT-1000 Audio
Bandwidth Modification By Jay Farmer N8IPO and
Kevin Custer W3KKC You can increase the audio pass bandwidth of the CAT-1000. This same mod can be done to many of the other CAT controllers, however you will need the applicable schematics and component layouts to change the right parts. |
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CAT-200B
and DL-1000C Frequency Response
By Robert Meister WA1MIK After reading the above article, the CAT-200B controller and the companion DL-1000C audio delay board were found to also have poor frequency response. A similar fix will certainly help things out. |
Since there's no more CAT AUTO web site, the list below covers all
manuals for their products, collected by Repeater-Builder before March
2023. This particular list is NOT
a complete list of every manual for every product they ever produced.
The repeater controller manuals on their site did not
include schematic diagrams.
CAT-200B Repeater
Controller Manual 1.35 MB PDF Includes the CI-200 RS-232/Weather interface, the DL-1000C Audio Delay Board, and the RLS-1000B Remote Link Switch. |
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CAT-250 Repeater
Controller Manual 892 kB PDF Contains schematic. |
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The CAT-300 /
300DX Repeater Controller Manual 3 MB PDF Contains schematic. |
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CAT-300
Repeater Controller Data Sheet 235 kB PDF Even though it's called a data sheet, it has a schematic. |
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CAT-400 Repeater
Controller Manual 2.8 MB PDF Includes DL-1000C Audio Delay module. One of the few manuals on CAT's web site that had schematics. |
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CAT-500 Repeater
Controller Manual 329 kB PDF Rather crude, but it does have a schematic. |
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CAT-700 Repeater
Controller Manual 880 kB PDF Donated by Bill K2WH. Reorganized by WA1MIK. |
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CAT-700B Repeater
Controller Manual 976 kB PDF Donated by Bill K2WH. Has schematics plus info on the MF-1000, DL-1000C, DR-1000, and RLS-1000. |
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CAT-1000 Repeater
Controller Manual 615 kB PDF Rather crude, but it does have a schematic. |
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CAT-1000
Repeater Controller Manual 2 MB PDF The FULL indexed manual. Includes schematics, DR-1000, DL-1000B, WX-1000, RLS-1000, Remote Base Interface, and Serial Tuned Transceiver Interface. |
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RBS-1000
Remote Base Switch Manual 189 kB PDF Includes schematic. |
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RBS-1000B Remote Base Switch Schematic 335 kB PDF | |
RLS-1000B
Remote Link Switch Manual 326 kB PDF Includes schematic. |
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SQ-1000
Super-Squelch board Manual 195 kB PDF Includes schematic. |
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WD-100 Digital
Weather Decoder Manual 326 kB PDF This unit requires an external weather receiver. |
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WX-200 Digital
Weather Receiver Manual 189 kB PDF Includes schematics. |
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WX-250 Digital
Weather Receiver Manual 2.9 MB PDF Includes schematics. |
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WX-250 - Weather Radio Digital Interface
Document Document Date 6-22-2011 - Revision A -- "This document was developed with input from manufacturers, private and government organizations and WX-250 users to document the RS-232 extended digital output." Provided by an Anonymous Contributor |
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WX-1000 Digital
Weather Receiver Manual 1.1 MB PDF Donated by Eric WB6FLY. Includes schematics. |
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An index of CAT Manuals taken from the CAT AUTO web site in August-October 2019 | |
An index of CAT Notes taken from the CAT AUTO web site in August-October 2019 | |
An index of CAT Papers taken from the CAT AUTO web site in August-October 2019 | |
An index of CAT Manuals
taken from the CAT AUTO web site in May 2020 File names that have the whole word "manual" in them contain full schematics. Those that have the word "man" in them do not have full schematics. |
CAT SOFTWARE
In
March 2023, Josh Hatton, W4ZZK, received the permission from Ronald
(Ron)
Eichholtz, of the 'CAT Auto Enterprise' to share the remaining
software he has with the Radio community.
Unless otherwise noted, all software was provided to W4ZZK by Ron of CAT Auto, for coordination and dissemenation to the
community, free of charge.
All software items below were pulled from their original CD-ROM
states and compressed to single and separate EXE files, for ease of download and access.
Please respect Ron's contribution
and CAT's many years of hard work in software development... Don't
attempt to profit from this
software that is now officially made free to CAT Community.
If anyone has
purchased CAT software from any individual on group forums or online sales
after May 5, 2023 (the date that all below packages were made available
to the community on Repeater-Builder.com), you paid for free software.
Download and install the software at your own risk. Software is no
longer
supported; Repeater-Builder.com, the site owners, contributors or
maintainers are not
responsible/liable in any way.
See the "How To Extract" page for guidance
after downloading.
#KeepCATAutoAlive
Software Provided by Ron WB4UFA
CAT200
Windows Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT200.exe Editor Version 1.03 |
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CAT250
Windows Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT250.exe Editor v1.07.06; Includes ISP Loader v1.00 |
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CAT260
Windows Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT260.exe Editor v1.04; Includes CAT260 Flasher v1.2 |
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CAT300DX
Windows Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT300DX.exe Includes 'CAT COMM 32' Communications Program v2.10 |
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CAT300DXL
Windows Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT300DXL.exe Includes 'CAT COMM 32' Communications Program v2.10 |
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CAT400
Windows Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT400.exe Editor v1.01.00 |
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CAT700
Editor Program Executable Filename: RB-CAT700.exe Editor v2.06; Includes Comm32 Communications Program v2.10 |
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CAT800 v1.05.1D
Windows
Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT800-V105.exe Editor v1.05.1D Windows Editor |
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CAT800
Windows Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT800-V300.exe Editor v3.00 |
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CAT1000
Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT1000.exe Editor v2.10; Includes CAT_COMM 32-Bit Communications Program |
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CAT WX-200
Digital Weather
Receiver Configuration Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT-WX200.exe Editor v1.05 |
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CAT WX-250 - SAME
Weather
Receiver Configuration Editor Executable Filename: RB-CAT-WX250.exe Editor v1.06 |
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CAT WX-1000A SAME
Digital
Weather Receiver Executable Filename: RB-CAT-WX1000.exe Editor v3.00 |
CAT Weather Receiver Display Panel Executable Filename: RB-CAT-WXRX-Display.exe Program interrogates Alert Properties, RX Signal Strength (RSSI, S/N), Raw Data and Logging Submitted by an Anonymous Contributor |
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