question concerning IC-V82's

paramedic18 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-25-2009, 07:35 PM

Ok, so i have the programming software for the icom v82's, however i cant get it to program a channel that ends in .0175.. it always rounds up to .0200...

even though the display shows a .0075 it just wont program into it.

any ideas?

n8emr · #2 (**permalink**) 01-26-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by paramedic18

Ok, so i have the programming software for the icom v82's, however i cant get it to program a channel that ends in .0175.. it always rounds up to .0200...

even though the display shows a .0075 it just wont program into it.

any ideas?

most likely you need to set the channel for narrow band if you have that option.

paramedic18 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-26-2009, 06:44 PM

hmm well i tried that but its still rounding it up

starting to frustrate me! grr

wx4cbh · #4 (**permalink**) 01-27-2009, 04:07 PM

It does that because .0075 or .0175 isn't a 12.5 kHz step, it's a 6.25 kHz step. The radio is capable of 12.5 kHz narrow band steps from the "base" numerics of the 20/25 kHz bandwidths, not 6.25 steps. Some of the 6.25 steps fall on the 12.5/20/25 khz steps, so they do accept those freqs, but the receive audio, if it is analog, would be very low and the transmit audio won't be narrow enough. If it's digital, well, that answers its own question.

paramedic18 · #5 (**permalink**) 01-27-2009, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by wx4cbh

It does that because .0075 or .0175 isn't a 12.5 kHz step, it's a 6.25 kHz step. The radio is capable of 12.5 kHz narrow band steps from the "base" numerics of the 20/25 kHz bandwidths, not 6.25 steps. Some of the 6.25 steps fall on the 12.5/20/25 khz steps, so they do accept those freqs, but the receive audio, if it is analog, would be very low and the transmit audio won't be narrow enough. If it's digital, well, that answers its own question.

well shucks.. guess i wont have that alerting channel in my radio then.

thanks for your help everyone!!

rescuecomm · #6 (**permalink**) 02-13-2009, 06:46 PM

Sounds like you need an Icom F3061S. It cost twice as much ($259) but will work much better. It also does two tone squential. I am using an Icom F30GS bought off of the web for $75.00 for squad ops.

Bob

paramedic18 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-13-2009, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by rescuecomm

Sounds like you need an Icom F3061S. It cost twice as much ($259) but will work much better. It also does two tone squential. I am using an Icom F30GS bought off of the web for $75.00 for squad ops.

Bob

eh.. was just using it for monitoring.. kinda steep for just monitoring, but oh well.. may look into it.. thanks

just to let you, did a google search, its 469$