CT250 Continuos Tone?

[nradina]

Hello everyone,

Although I've read and used this site quite a bit one the past few months, this is my first time posting.

I own a few CT250 units.
I'm aware that I will be caught up in the narrowband fun soon, but I wanted to try and resolve an issue I have with these radios.

My understanding is the units have 16 available channels.
Yet, I can only seem to TX/RX on just 3?

When I switch to any channel between 4-16, I just get a continuous tone.

This is probably a very simple and elementary question, so thank you for your patience with my "new-ness".

Thank you!

nicholas

 

[trlrdrdave]

Yea you have to add the channels to the zone menu. The long beep is saying you dont have anything in there.

 

[WA0CBW]

Have they been programmed with any frequencies? Usually an un-programmed channel position emits a long beep.

BB

 

[nradina]

Yea you have to add the channels to the zone menu. The long beep is saying you dont have anything in there.

Thank you for your quick help!

I'm assuming this programming would have to be done by applying for a account with motorola and paying for the download? Would this radio still be supported for re-programming? Are there other vendors that re-program these units?

Thanks again!

n

 

[trlrdrdave]

Thats one way to do it. I would take it to a motorola dealer or somebody that has software and knows what to do with it. Narrowbanding is just programming so you could get all this taken care of at one time. After proper licensing and emissions changes and all.