HT1000 vhf programming help

[firemedic78]

I am looking for someone who is extremely familiar with programming the 1000, specifically for fire/ems anencies that use quick call II tone codes. I have found some techs but aren't familiar with the detailed programming....basically, I want my toggle mode switches as follows...

A- QCII alert mode(pager mode)
B- Channel monitor mode( Monitor the channel the radio is on)
C- Priority scan set to whatever channel my radio is on...Obviously, I usually have Ch. 1 as priority because that is our county fire channel that does the paging....but I want to be able to switch the channel, once we are on scene, to our fire tac channel and then have that be the priority channel while I am scanning...That way I can still hear our county channels incase another call comes out, but if traffic is keyed up on the tac channel that my selector knob is on, it will alert me and become the priority channel, until incident is terminated and then switch back to Ch. 1 and then that is priority channel.

Side function button settings: All I would like, is one button be the nuisance delete during scan mode( preferably the blue side button, but any of the three buttons will work), and then only other setting is one button to squelch when I push it, which in turn reset's my radio while in pager mode(Toggle A when radio is on Ch. 1, otherwise, radio will be open after tones are set off and green LED light continuously flashes until I push the squelch button to reset it to page mode) My radio model #'s end in CN & DN. I know that some model numbers wont do certain settings and functions that other model numbers will do, but I think the DN models will do exactly as I am asking. I have a friend on another volunteer fire department and a bordering County that has his radio set exactly the way I have listed here, and his model is a DN. But I also have a radio that ends with CN, and have heard that particular model will do the same functions. basically, I just need to know, when I go into the toggle mode setting on the software, which settings at the bottom do I choose. I know there are several that you can choose from, like program 1, program 2, hi/ low, lo/ hi, ect.. and then at the bottom, it shows your ABC options that each letter does foe that particular setting. I believe program one is probably what I want, it shows A is 1 open squelch, 2 is scan off, B is 1, blank, 2 scan off, C is 1, blank, 2 scan on.... f that is not the correct toggle mode to program for what I want, please tell me which toggle program selection I want to select.... and if there is a different setting I have to go to and the quick call settings to make toggle A silence while on channel 1 until Tones are alerted. I know this is a long post, but if you are the right one that is familiar with programming a volunteer fire or EMS HT-1000, then you should know what I am talking about. Shoot me a private message if you have any advice on which toggle position setting I want programmed into the radio(i.e...program 1, program 2, ect...) and the side function switch programming for the nuisance delete and the squelch. And finally, with the priority scan on, how to set the radio to have your priority channel to whatever channel you are on. thank you very much in advance.

Chris

 

[cmjonesinc]

Off the top of my head I think you're wanting the mode switch on top to be set to "Scan/Squelch Defeat" in the programming. That should be (A) channel option squelch, which is where the channel option is set to "AND" for QCII (B) carrier squelch (C) scan. I may be wrong on that. Its been forever since I've programmed an ht1000.

 

[firemedic78]

I appreciate the reply. I guess what I am wanting to know, is how to program it that way. Do I program the end part in the quick call settings? And then as far as the toggle switch mode, which setting does it need to be selected to be programmed for?i.e...scan/scan program 1,scan/scan program 2, scan/talkaround, scan/squelch defeat, scan/PAC-RT, talkaround, squelch defeat, PAC-RT, hi & lo pwr, hi & lo pwr/scan, talkaround/pl, scan, scan/ch.opt/talkaround, ch. opt talkaround, blank, unsupported switch. so are the toggle mode functions that are available, I guess I would just like to know the correct one to click on. and also how to make whatever channel your on the priority channel? basically, I just need to know where I put the and for the quick call II so I can keep toggle switch A muted on channel 1 until our tones go off. I downloaded the ht1000 manual and I think I have most of it understood now, especially as far as the priority channel. You can select designated channel to be your priority channel or you can select whichever channel the channel selector knob is on to be the priority channel, so I think I figured that out and I think I have the side buttons figure it out, I just need to know which toggle mode to program it into from the list above, like scan/scan program 1, scan/scan program to ect.. for me to be able to use toggle switch A and keep it muted while on Channel 1 until our tones go off and then keep it open until I reset it. I may need a little more advice on the side function buttons as well. All I want are two basic functions, nuisance delete and a side function button to push in to hear the squelch noise that way I can reset when toggle A ( pager) mode on channel 1.

 

[firemedic78]

Well, after 2 hours of working on my radio's, between me and the radio tech(who unfortunatly, knew nothing about the ht1000 software), found out that the radio's I bought off ebay were AN models, even though he still had the DN model number on the back of the radio....so come to find out, I can't even program them the way I had the original(DN) model that was mine. Basically, I bought a 1000 and, according to his add, was also a DN model, of course, making it compatible to clone....so therefore, I shipped him my 1000 that was ALREADY programmed....just simply wanted him to clone it to the one I bought.....and I also asked him to CALL me if he had any questions before doing ANYTHING... Well, he decided to take it on his own accord to clear my codeplug and start from scratch....well then he finally did call me to tell me that he did not understand how I wanted the radio programmed because the radio I bought wasn't capable of having those features because, ultimatly, it was an AN model....so I tell him to refund me, since he typed the wrong model # in the add( I would not have bought a AN model) and ship me back my original 1000...well, first off, xuring shipping back, the radio, somehow, broke from the inside, so he said to return it and he would fix it...Well, all he did was replace the guts w/ the AN model, but kept the DN sticker on it....making me assume it was the same model, therefore, making it possible for the radio to be programmed the same way it has been for almost 18 years.....needless to say, I am not happy....so now I am back to square 1....I need to know which toggle mode do I need to program the A,B,C switches, in order to make it the way I listed in my original post.....

A-page alert(silent until qc II tone codes are set off on Ch. 1
B-channel monitor(don't know the technical term...just monitor whatever channel it is on)
C-priority scan

there are several different programming options. they are all listed above in my post. Scan/scan program 1, ect.....please help. I am now in need of 2 HT1000 vhf radio's w/ model ending in DN. Thanks.

 

[yaknamedjak]

You need to just go through the options and see which one has chan option squelch as either 1 or 2 under A, squelch defeat or open squelch for either 1 or 2 for B, and scan for c.

The only way to know which one is to go through and read them...I am out of town, I may be back Monday and should be able to sit down at my programming laptop and go through and see if one of the options in the Ht1000, RSS have that as an option. It may be, however, that that combination doesn't exist. You just need to go through each one and see which one meets your requirements. You seem to have the terminology down and should be able to figure it out..

Joey


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[firemedic78]

If I just had a DOS computer, I could look into it....i bought a RIB, And downloaded software off the internet that people say works. It is supposed to be the rss software...downloaded it off hamfiles.com......all the replies on the website said that the download worked great...so i copied it to a cd rom, but dont have a DOS to load it....so I have been traveling hour to hour and a half here and there to our radio technician place that does our Fire Department radios. I spent two and a half hours there yesterday, and found out that my issue most likely is that the 1 radio is an A model, And I do not know if that model can do what I want it to do. I had a D model, as I stated in my post above, that got broke during shipping, and when he fixed it, he inserted new guts for the radio, but the guts were for an A model. when I go to a toggle switch mode function menu, I find that there is one program function called scan/squelch defeat...it does show that A is 1-scan off, 2-sqeulch defeat, B is 1- blank, 2-scan off and C is 1-blank, 2-scan on... I choose that and then I program that into the code plug. Then my problem becomes, when I have it on channel 1 or any channel for that matter, while in scan mode, I do not get the priority beep or any receive information. I see the red LED light flashing telling me that the channel is at least receiving something, but the receive for some reason is closed. I can transmit ok but I cannot hear anything on the receive side while in scan mode. I switch it back to B and I can hear just fine and transmit just fine, and when I switch to A, which should make it silent while on Ch. 1 until our tones are paged, I still hear traffic.... so I guess I am just coming down to the conclusion that I got tricked on eBay, and ended up sending him my good D model radio, then it got broke on his end and he put on an A model processing board and guts in it, so it basically turned my radio from a newer model to an older model, giving me the assumption that it won't do the options that it did before I sent it to him. again when I bought the new radio off eBay, he miss advertised it by mentioning it was a D model, so I simply just shipped him my radio so the only thing he had to do was clone it to the new radio, and I specifically told him to call me before he made any adjustments to my radio I sent him if there was any questions before he did anything, but he took it upon himself to delete the code plug and start from scratch which in turn messed everything up, and since he is not familiar with setting up a radio for a fire or EMS agency, was not familiar with the options that I wanted it to do, that I knew it could do because the radio I sent him was that way for over 15 years and it worked just fine. I bought that radio over 15 years ago at our local Motorola dealer, who is out of business now, and they sold a lot of the ht1000 radios to local fire and EMS departments and set them up specifically that way so you could use the toggle switches to set it to pager mode or scan mode with priority channel set to whatever channel you were on. I know in the settings you can set the priority channel to designated channel or whatever channel the radio currently is on, so I am understanding RSS software more and more, I just don't understand it all, and still have some issues with finding out which toggle switch mode function to set it to so a can be silent until our pages are turned on and B can be just whatever channel I'm on, and C can be priority scan. I scrolled through everything that I could see, there are several options and I just could not figure it out, so maybe the A Model just won't do those functions. The other issue I had was the quick call II settings. trying to figure out if I need it set to and, set to or, and what I need to set the STD/STD, OR/ STD, or what, so I am just not as familiar as I want to be with the software, so I think I am just down to needing to find a couple radios that are the D models. I don't have a lot of money to spend, but they don't go for very much anymore since they are basically an obsolete radio. if you know of anyone that has a couple of the DN models of radios that would like to sell them, let me know and maybe we can work a price out. Other than that, I guess when you get back home, you can look at your laptop and see what you find would be the best program feature for the toggle switch and get back to me. In the meantime I'm going to try and find a dos computer and wait for my RIB to come in and go from there. Thank you.

 

[ramal121]

You're awful dang wordy and I didn't read it all, but I will tell you on an HT1000 (all revisions) the ABC switch functions are selected from a list in the RSS and QCII decode is not one of them. The best you can hope for is to make two separate channels, one that monitors the channel and alerts to a QCII decode and another that remains silent until a QCII page comes through just like a pager.

 

[yaknamedjak]

You're awful dang wordy and I didn't read it all, but I will tell you on an HT1000 (all revisions) the ABC switch functions are selected from a list in the RSS and QCII decode is not one of them. The best you can hope for is to make two separate channels, one that monitors the channel and alerts to a QCII decode and another that remains silent until a QCII page comes through just like a pager.

Told him the same thing in pm...but I wasn't 100% that "ch option squelch" isn't an option.. Or that One may option may have monitor vs ch option squelch as the first reply said. Will review RSS on Monday but if you say it's not there I believe it as I didn't think so.


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[cmjonesinc]

You're awful dang wordy and I didn't read it all, but I will tell you on an HT1000 (all revisions) the ABC switch functions are selected from a list in the RSS and QCII decode is not one of them. The best you can hope for is to make two separate channels, one that monitors the channel and alerts to a QCII decode and another that remains silent until a QCII page comes through just like a pager.

I'm not 100% sure because it's been a while since I've programmed one so I'm going to check tomorrow, but I think squelch defeat will do it. As channel squelch will be set to qcii/and on switch option a and switch option b will be carrier squelch which is going to be "monitor"
.

 

[ramal121]

I'm not 100% sure because it's been a while since I've programmed one so I'm going to check tomorrow, but I think squelch defeat will do it. As channel squelch will be set to qcii/and on switch option a and switch option b will be carrier squelch which is going to be "monitor"
.

Hmm, OK. Worth a try anyways.

 

[firemedic78]

Yes, lol, I can be kind of wordy in some post's....but I unfortunatly have to correct a couple of you...yes..the QCII function can be used via the A, B,C toggle switch. I found my issues...it is the Scan/Squelch Defeat program mode. My mistake was that the programmer 4got 2 put QCII w/carrier squelch in the channel programming. He had it set for TPL QCII, in the rx mode, making thr radio silent because it was waiting for the 146.2 code in recieve mode, when in fact, we don't use a pl or dpl code....So, I have it fixed exactly the way I want now.....

A-pager alert while on Ch. 1
B-open carrier, making it to I am only monitoring the channel that I am on.
C-priority scan with the priority channel being whatever channel I am on.

All my side buttons are good now too...
1-nuisance delete
2-blank
3-monitor, meaning it will send the squelch noise, basically to reset the radio back into pager mode after tines are set off while on toggle A.

I am still looking for 1 more vhf ht1000 w/DN model. Please PM me if u have 1. I will also post in classifieds. Thanks again for all the help. Greatly appreciated.

Chris

 

[jim202]

If I just had a DOS computer, I could look into it....i bought a RIB, And downloaded software off the internet that people say works. It is supposed to be the rss software...downloaded it off hamfiles.com......all the replies on the website said that the download worked great.

What is this link you provided? Tried going to it and get the reply that it is a bad link.

Thought I had heard about all those kind if sources. This is a new one to me.

 

[firemedic78]

Sorry Jim, I wrote it down wrong...it is The HamFiles Amateur Radio & PMR File Repository – HamFiles

You can download a lot of different radio models programming info.....and according to the replies I have seen on the two I downloaded( HT1000/HT125), they are all good replies about the software...Now, I only have those two radio's, so I cannot vouch for other programming software for other make/models....hope this helps.

Chris