• To anyone looking to acquire commercial radio programming software:

    Please do not make requests for copies of radio programming software which is sold (or was sold) by the manufacturer for any monetary value. All requests will be deleted and a forum infraction issued. Making a request such as this is attempting to engage in software piracy and this forum cannot be involved or associated with this activity. The same goes for any private transaction via Private Message. Even if you attempt to engage in this activity in PM's we will still enforce the forum rules. Your PM's are not private and the administration has the right to read them if there's a hint to criminal activity.

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    To obtain Motorola software see the Sticky in the Motorola forum.

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    For M/A Com/Harris/GE, etc: there are two software packages that program all current and past radios. One package is for conventional programming and the other for trunked programming. The trunked package is in upwards of $2,500. The conventional package is more reasonable though is still several hundred dollars. The benefit is you do not need multiple versions for each radio (unlike Motorola).

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Big power on channel 6.

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TheSpaceMan

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Good point. You would not believe how many times I have had guys tell me 10 is dead. I have told them many times no its not. 11 is open. There is just no body on 10 calling. Maybe try putting out a CQ call. Typically these are the same guys that hate CB and call it names like Chicken band and the like. I have told them this on many occasions. I agree 11 is the propagation indicator for 10.
I always keep a CB on with the squelch up in the shack. When 11 is open, 10 is open! I just wonder how it must be if aliens from outer space can pick up CH 6. What will they ever think of our civilization?
 

PrimeNumber

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I always keep a CB on with the squelch up in the shack. When 11 is open, 10 is open! I just wonder how it must be if aliens from outer space can pick up CH 6. What will they ever think of our civilization?

Oh, don't worry, they'll pick up our Cold War era ICBM early warning radar long before Ch 6. Here's one physicist's take on it: Alien Astronomers

Now between *that* and *Ch 6*, we should expect an interstellar strike on our planet at any time now, just as a precaution on the part of aliens everywhere. Wouldn't we do the same?
 
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