To the OP:
You probably won't like this response, but it may be helpful to give you some perspective:
1) Most competent radio techs have to get $75-100 per hour to make ends meet.
2) Depending on firmware, your MT2000 is capable of holding 100 or 255 conventional "personalities."
3) Each "personality" requires specification of umpteen more parameters than simply freq and tone. This is particularly true if you tend to get fancy with scan lists or signalling. A big problem for programmers is users who don't specify up front all of the parameters needed to do the job, which means doing the job in fits and starts, with multiple phone calls to clarify things.
4) The MT2000 requires the comparatively kludgy DOS-based MTSX RSS. Not only is programming more arduous than with the later CPS packages -- a lot of jumping back and forth between screens and you have to make paper lists of channels, personalities, scan lists, MDC system and other things -- but it is also more error prone, which means more time spent proofreading your work.
5) I've been doing this for more than 20 years. Time permitting, I often undertake to do a quick one zone, 16-channel job for deserving folks, provided it doesn't involve anything fancy. Beyond that, I work on an hourly rate.
6) Understand that if you want any Part 90 channels programmed for transmit capable, most ethical programmers will require either a license or a letter.
