Yes I was looking at accessories......this is a fabulous radio. The only thing I need to figure out is when I change the zone knob a robot voice comes on telling me "TRUNKING MONITOR"....it is annoying cause its LOUD.....how would I disable this ?
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Help with Unication info
- Thread starter bobruzzo
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I'm so used to hearing that I'd probably miss it but my wife on the other hand...
ok got it.....thank you
I use it with custom voice announcements, so I don't have to look at the knob position, it is easy to pass over a knob.
I have the amplified charging base for both mine, love them. Also, in the amplified base, the external antenna helps for the "other band" as well as the 700/800 band.
I may have to look into that, "next lesson"!
After 185 messages it might be a while.I may have to look into that, "next lesson"!
My wife absolutely HATES the scanners.....
Bob, this is another good setting.
"Yes, yes it is. "
I ended up getting a 2nd G5 for mine, she's not so much about the ham radio stuff but she often grabs her G5 when leaving the house.
What do these settings do?
Let's you hold on a TG.
OK good one......tell me, is it a little EASIER to program one of my empty knob positions with a bunch of UHF conventional PD/FD? And that will still leave one last empty knob position....where I would like to put a bunch of UHF DMR Commercial channels?
It's all the same. I think it's one DMR system to a knob selection. That's is where you will learn about how to switch to zone 2!
For DMR the area hospitals use it for security. You have to remember you only have 450-512mhz for an conventional frequencies.
For DMR the area hospitals use it for security. You have to remember you only have 450-512mhz for an conventional frequencies.
Yes I have a list of a bunch of UHF business DMR freqs and a few UHF conventional PD/FD freqs.....but these are not in any "system" they are stand alone freqs from various agencies. For example in my scanners I have a bank set up with UHF DMR freqs for RI Energy, Crown Plaza Hotel, etc.....they all come in loud and clear here. So is there a way to program them manually, putting in the color codes or tones (if PD or FD) and then program them into my last 2 knob positions? I mean the radio does support DMR and conventional UHF.......Or is this not the type of unit that works this way?
This is how my G5 is programmed.
It is not all the same...pagers do not do DMR trunking. You program on frequency per knob position, I suggest you throw a couple of zones in and skip one between your conventional frequency zones and the main zone.
Then in ZONE 1 you can set up a scanning system with a max of 16 frequencies, however, I repeat, the pager is not a scanner and it scans slow. I if you have 16 frequencies in a scan list it will be slow.
I think you have to pull off RR to enter into the G5. You have to keep analog and P25 conventional separate.
