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I have no idea how to program in talk groups on a trunked system, I can't seem to find anything on how to except for whistler radios. I want to listen to police, fire, ems, etc. how can learn these trunked system?

Hello everyone! I'm new here and new to hytera radio I'd like to know if anyone could help me. When I transmit with an Hytera HP785 radio the led turns red and the talk permit tone is played. As soon as I release the ptt button the led that indicates that I am transmitting turns from red to...

First off, I'm completely new to radios. I have a Baofeng uv-9g GMRS radio. I have tested it via NOAA to confirm its work. I want to use it to monitor my local municipality radio frequencies near me. I'm trying to program my radio through CHIRP. the freq. in question uses DPL 026 for tone...

I have a midland mxt 275 I am having issues with. I am trying to get it on our local 675 repeater with a 156.7 tone. I turned on the repeater function. Repeater channels appear. I go to repeater channel 20. Rt is set to 25 Ct is set to 25. I transmit and it goes through. When someone tries to...

Okay first I do love both of these scanners - the step up from a 125at I started with is amazing. Having a screen and local frequencies automatically loaded is so cool. BUT on both devices - unless I’m using trunking discovery or conventional discovery I cannot hear a full transmission. I have...

Hello people of RadioReference! I recently purchased a Motorola XTS 1500 off of eBay; the seller was legit, and I have the programming software, I was wondering if there is a way to COMPLETELY wipe it to restart from scratch! It is trunked. If you can help please reply! Thank you, domenicd_

I’m have a problem with my sentinel software. Normally when I click on the Nationwide/Statewide/County Systems tree. I would click on the Plus or Minus and the information on the system would extend out. As of today I can‘t any of the city radio frequencies or county systems. How do I go about...

Hi all, Recently, my father passed. We always stayed up late listing to the various scanners in surrounding cities of the local activity. So... This has been my mission... I can't figure out how he had IL (Starcom21) all on there and able to hear everything. I was wanting to program in...

Hi guys, hope someone can help here. We have a Yaesu FT60R that was dropped accidentally on a hard floor. It looked like it hit on the end with the knobs and antenna. Afterwards, the volume doesn't seem to be adjustable and is so low as to basically be inaudible. However, the unit power-on...

I picked up a bcd996p2 brand new a while back and I’ve been trying to figure out an issue any help would be appreciated. While scanning Howard county indiana it will randomly stop trunking and display NFM. It’s very hard to recreate because it does it randomly but won’t scan properly until I...

I have recently got an XTS2500 to use with the USFS on deployments as a personal radio but the FPP future was removed. How can I get that back? Current specs: XTS2500 FLASHcode: 540018-401488-6 Codeplug:0024 Firmware:R17.00.02 Feature set: Q574 H869 Q883 H04 Q947

I'm trying to mount my President McKinley radio in my 2019 Subaru Ascent. I'd like to mount it in the least destructive way possible while being able to easily remove it. I found the mounting setup in the picture on a Subaru Ascent forum but the guy failed to respond when I asked what hardware...

Hello everyone, I am a complete newbies when it comes to radio programming, I recently found a bunch of XPR 6350's thrown into a dumpster (I work for a local big pharma that apparently got an upgrade on their radios). Now I'm a las year CS student, and I know how to get around programming, but...

Hi, I am hoping somebody can help me. I just purchased 3 TK-8180 K-2s, used on Ebay for my ham radio use. We use the 7180s at my VFD, and I love everything about them, so the UHF version made sense to me. I tried to program it with the VFD's computer and it comes up "USE SJ-180!". I understand...

Hello, I made a repeater for my security company so we could go back to using our icoms and I made it using two Icom IC-F221s and I have a 9db omnidirectional antenna on a 50ft pole and with the handhelds it doesn't even work down the road and the mobile radios will pick it up fine I'm wondering...

I have 2 Uniden BCD996p2's and one is picking everything up just fine but the 2nd one wont pick anything up. i have the same Freqancies in both just one of them wont pick anything up and the other will?

I have a real fancy scanner that can scan anything. I also broadcast on Broadcastify with my regular scanner. I’m wondering about the legality of scanning and broadcasting wiscom p25 trunked law enforcement channels. Can you? Can you not? Why? I can’t seem to find anything regarding this...

I found this website ( Canforce VHF/UHF Frequecies (canairradio.com) ) on one of the forums on RadioReference.com and it looks really cool how they have laid out the radio frequencies for anyone to look at, but I'm not sure how to use this website. either this website just lays out frequencies...

Old post from October says offline due to power being out but not so. When will it be back online again??

Hello! I was recently speaking with a fellow enthusiast and they said if you are hiking at ANF and you get stuck or need emergency help, you can tune to one of the main input "net" frequencies (admin, law, forest, service) and you can broadcast to them for help. Naturally, I am extremely...