As far as some of the older equipment, both mobiles and handheld, I don't think that you will be able to program the narrowband offset channel into the radio. I will give this a try whenever I get a chance. I will give a report of my test results. When I was with the Texas Department of Transportation Radio Operations, we got some new narrowband capable radios from Motorola that could not be programmed with some of the narrowband offset channels.
Once we showed Motorola that it was indeed an actual radio channel from the FCC Rules and Regulations, they had to develop a flash update for the radios and some new programming software also. If someone owned an actual narrowband capable radio, then this won't be an issue. Last night I did a Google search for FTR narrowband and this post came up on another forum about it.
Have you ever tried this on your radio? I wonder if it works on receive also. Have you ever tried this on your FT? I have seen this in the manual while looking for narrowband.
I believe this only applies if you have to narrowband a transmit channel. I have all wideband railroad channels programmed into my radio and I have not tried it yet because of it's association with the narrowband mode for the transmitter. I will try and see what it does, but I need a narrowband channel to see if there is any difference. I just checked my programming software and it only applies to the transmit deviation, wide or narrow.
I don't know if it impacts the receive. I will play around and let you know if I can find a narrowband signal that I can receive. The person I spoke with didn't know and couldn't come up with a good answer. Doing some reading on radioreference. They seemed to think the audio was louder and their signal was a little stronger. So with all of the posts, which radio is the best choice for RR freq.? Too tough to figure out without the manual close at hand! Programming from the PC is handy but you might entirely forget how to manually program it when you need to on the fly.
A nice thing is you have a file you can change around easily and keep to go back to anytime you want or after you had to reset the CPU for some reason. You can keep different files to use in different situations. K7MH , Aug 6, Thanks guys.
Mod was successful. Quoted: Buddy of mine just grabbed that resistor with some fine needle nose and pulled gently. I watched him do it and I would say the resistor actually crumbled when he grabbed it. Quoted: I watched him do it and I would say the resistor actually crumbled when he grabbed it.
I hit both sides with solder wick and then gently push it off the board with the soldering iron. Using pliers is just asking for problems.
I de soldered one, and cant remember how my second one went. If you want to get better reception or transmitting signal, you could get a better antenna with an SMA connector and attach it to the transceiver. Display — Because the keyboard is illuminated with an orange backlight, it is easy to use the devices in low light conditions.
If you want to, you could adjust the strength of the backlight and even set it so it stays on permanently. That is not recommended though as you might want to conserve battery power.
The one downside related to the backlight are the texts above the keypad. Battery life — A full battery can power the device for 8 hours when the device is used non-stop. This is quite decent considering it has a transmitting power output of 5 watts. Yaesu missed a beat here. When it is activated, it filters signals so that only those above a particular S-meter point will open the squelch.
The squelch automatically opens if a strong station is hooked while the scanner pauses on that channel. Band Edge Beeper — Nestled in the menu, this feature allows the device to beep automatically during scanning when a band edge is encountered whether in the VFO scanning mode or during PMS activities.
Smart search — This feature stores channels automatically when they are encountered. It goes above and below your current frequency to search for other frequencies. It stores the new frequencies in the special Smart Search memory bank.
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