Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:16 pm
Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:21 pm
stevemcgee wrote:Ah, that must be the unit I saw somebody overwhelming Mike Glover with on YouTube.
Mostly I just want comms that send and receive significantly further than FRS. Watts, and easy antennae upgrades. Big battery. Next is ease of programming channels, or hand-keying at least.
I have a mac, too.
Fri Sep 04, 2020 3:55 pm
Fri Sep 04, 2020 4:04 pm
laneends wrote:Well I broke down and bought a few XTS5000's... Should be waiting fore when I get back to dry land.
Fri Sep 04, 2020 4:46 pm
Fri Sep 04, 2020 5:13 pm
laneends wrote:But of course! Model 3's
Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:52 pm
Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:09 pm
Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:32 pm
stevemcgee wrote:I pulled my radio out. It's a motorola JT 1000 - TW is that something you can program?
Fri Sep 04, 2020 10:26 pm
Fri Sep 04, 2020 10:47 pm
stevemcgee wrote:I'd assume people would be choosing VHF over UHF if they had to pick.
Years ago a co-worker had a tiny Yaesu that got everything. Really sweet. I ended up getting a Prime on FRS plus a couple others (MURS? It was 1998) and put a huge telescoping antennae on it. 15 miles in high sierra over a couple ridges, to the half-watt FRS the others used. That was awesome.
I want to get a license and learn how to use repeaters.
Fri Sep 04, 2020 11:22 pm
TechnoWeenie wrote:stevemcgee wrote:I pulled my radio out. It's a motorola JT 1000 - TW is that something you can program?
Good news.
The JT1000 is programmable by hand.
Ancient, 16 channels.. But hand programmable.
Originally, it required a key in order to be hand programmable, but I swear I haven't seen a JT1000 that wasn't hacked to permit it without the key.
If yours can't be programmed by hand, lemme know, and I'll convert it so it does.
Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:31 am
stevemcgee wrote:TechnoWeenie wrote:stevemcgee wrote:I pulled my radio out. It's a motorola JT 1000 - TW is that something you can program?
Good news.
The JT1000 is programmable by hand.
Ancient, 16 channels.. But hand programmable.
Originally, it required a key in order to be hand programmable, but I swear I haven't seen a JT1000 that wasn't hacked to permit it without the key.
If yours can't be programmed by hand, lemme know, and I'll convert it so it does.
I had a freq card and had keyed in and saved them as channels. Then I gave it to someone who had several of these and he programmed frequencies.
But I set up the step, etc., just by the keyboard. It was 2014 or so and I don't remember how I did it but I'm sure the manual is still in my download folder.
UHF is good - that was all the long distance I got back in the late 90's. But I thought everyone wanted VHF for some reason. Maybe it's because it's far from FRS?
Sat Sep 05, 2020 4:15 pm
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