HT600 programming
Thanks for the reply, I just got the radios in the mail today. I took one of them apart and determined that they are 146-162Mhz. They are definitely quite sturdy, and I'm very impressed with the build quality. So the next step is programming. When programming is there any specific things I need to do? I was exploring the programming software just to get a feel for it but Im unsure what steps I should take. Thanks again for the replies. They have been very helpful!
Programming is pretty straight forward. Most of the navigation is F keys and Tab.
If you're gonna use them for ham, the shift key trick will work for freqs below 146 Mhz on this radio.
Hold down the shift key, enter the frequency, except for the period. Enter all the trailing zeros.
As an example, 145.3300 would look like !$%.##)) when you enter it. Only needed for freqs below 146. When you tab out of the window, it will look normal.
Only thing I can think of that may trip you up is the PL/DPL setting.
There is a screen that you select what PL's and DPL's you want to use (Been a while, poke around to you find it). You basically select up to 4 different PL's and DPL's to use in the radio. If you have a six channel needing six different PL's, you're outta luck. And if I remember right, when you go back to the programming page, you'll have a dropdown of the 4 different tones you selected on the other page.