Silverado5150
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Hello.
I recently purchased a used HYT TM-610U radio at a hamfest. Seems like a nice rugged compact unit. It came with the CPS HM600E V5.02.02 on a flash drive and the USB cable supplied.
It came preloaded with 8 GMRS repeater channels. I suspect the radio was somehow programmed as TM-600 in the past. The supplied CPS version has 8 other preprogrammed channels when opened, unknown of what region or use they would have. The radio label also displays V5.01 if applicable in addition to the serial number. I can read the data and write back 8 edited channels only as a TM-600 and whatever options available for that model. However, if I try to write back as a TM-610 it states incorrect model. This limits the front panel choices to 2 buttons instead of 4 and no option to display the frequency only the channel number.
Not really a big deal and other than that it works fine for my local ham repeaters now and can be used as is but it would be nice to have it operate as designed with the additional features of the TM-610 and more than 8 memory slots.
I downloaded earlier CPS versions V2.04.02 and V3.01.02 but when reading the radio it states to upgrade to V5xxxx rendering them incompatible for my use. I noticed the earlier versions also have several different preprogrammed frequencies loaded. Any known issues with this sort of concern? Any workarounds to correct it? Running the CPS as administrator on a Win7-64 PC I use for all other radio programming. This is my first commercial type radio. My amateur radios utilize RT Systems, Chirp or manufacturer CPS programs of which I'm familiar.
Thanks
I recently purchased a used HYT TM-610U radio at a hamfest. Seems like a nice rugged compact unit. It came with the CPS HM600E V5.02.02 on a flash drive and the USB cable supplied.
It came preloaded with 8 GMRS repeater channels. I suspect the radio was somehow programmed as TM-600 in the past. The supplied CPS version has 8 other preprogrammed channels when opened, unknown of what region or use they would have. The radio label also displays V5.01 if applicable in addition to the serial number. I can read the data and write back 8 edited channels only as a TM-600 and whatever options available for that model. However, if I try to write back as a TM-610 it states incorrect model. This limits the front panel choices to 2 buttons instead of 4 and no option to display the frequency only the channel number.
Not really a big deal and other than that it works fine for my local ham repeaters now and can be used as is but it would be nice to have it operate as designed with the additional features of the TM-610 and more than 8 memory slots.
I downloaded earlier CPS versions V2.04.02 and V3.01.02 but when reading the radio it states to upgrade to V5xxxx rendering them incompatible for my use. I noticed the earlier versions also have several different preprogrammed frequencies loaded. Any known issues with this sort of concern? Any workarounds to correct it? Running the CPS as administrator on a Win7-64 PC I use for all other radio programming. This is my first commercial type radio. My amateur radios utilize RT Systems, Chirp or manufacturer CPS programs of which I'm familiar.
Thanks
