You will probably not be able to obtain the cable and software.Reason:Motorola guards that material with extreme care. Only vendors and service companies can use the cables and software. They must sign very strict contracts with Motorola, assuring that they will not let that equipment out of their control. Two reasons.1. Those radios are designed and sold into the business and public service segments.
The FCC recognizes that the license holders and users know nothing about radio. The FCC requires these radios to be difficult for the users to modify. These frequencies are very crowded. This prevents the users from changing the frequencies, which would interfer with other users. It also prevents users from changing other parameters that may cause to much power, splattering, etc.
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Therefore, Motorola agreed to this very tight control to keep order in the business and public service bands.2. Only those persons under contract can service the radios, and thus have basically a franchise through Motorola. They charge for their services, and make money servicing the radios (in this case, adjusting frequencies and output).Your best bet is to check on the local commercial radio communications companies in your area and find one that has the cables and software. You may get it done at a discount, or maybe free, when they find out you are a Ham.Good luck. Motorola defends their software and their trademarks VERY actively.
That is why you don't see an commercial advertisements with 'HT', 'Handy Talkie', 'Handi Talkie', 'PL', 'Private Line', and so forth in them. Back when the Japanese first started selling amateur radio portable equipment in the United States their advertisements had terms like 'Handy Talkie' in them. Just as soon as the advertisements appeared in print the magazines and importers got 'nastygrams' from the Motorola legal department and the advertisements were immediately changed.Motorola also tracks things like sales of their software on eBay. If one happens to purchase the software then they immediately get a 'nastygram' telling them to either pay a license fee or else send the software back to Motorola.For decades Motorola has had a pretty strict attitude towards their products, trademarks, etc. It has cost them in terms of sales but they don't seem to mind.
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Also, Motorola had an attitude of being able to use patents owned by others without paying a licensing fee or purchasing the patent. The vibrating pager was a good example. Motorola basically stole the process and refused to pay the inventor. Well, they got hit with millions in that they had to pay the inventor as well as having to pay a fee for each pager manufactured with the vibrating feature.My experience with Motorola is from the 'inside'. My junior year in college I worked for the Motorola Service Station in Atlanta, Georgia; my senior year I established and managed the first Motorola owned portable and pager repair facility away from the Schamburg, Illinois, plant; and finally I owned the Motorola reconditioned equipment facility for the south-central United States for almost 10 years. As such, I got a good look at the policies of Motorola.Glen, K9STH.