• To anyone looking to acquire commercial radio programming software:

    Please do not make requests for copies of radio programming software which is sold (or was sold) by the manufacturer for any monetary value. All requests will be deleted and a forum infraction issued. Making a request such as this is attempting to engage in software piracy and this forum cannot be involved or associated with this activity. The same goes for any private transaction via Private Message. Even if you attempt to engage in this activity in PM's we will still enforce the forum rules. Your PM's are not private and the administration has the right to read them if there's a hint to criminal activity.

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    To obtain Motorola software see the Sticky in the Motorola forum.

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    For M/A Com/Harris/GE, etc: there are two software packages that program all current and past radios. One package is for conventional programming and the other for trunked programming. The trunked package is in upwards of $2,500. The conventional package is more reasonable though is still several hundred dollars. The benefit is you do not need multiple versions for each radio (unlike Motorola).

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Under the right conditions any frequency can bounce off the ionosphere. There is no magic frequency range (1-10mhz) that only bounces. Low Band public safety was 30, 42, and 70Mhz, and you can read the stories about CHP and others being received on the other side of the US. CB is 27mhz and can certainly have 'skip' (bounce off the ionosphere). Even up in the 155Mhz and 450Mhz and higher there can be 'skip'. I've received the 139mhz WISCOM public safety radio system in central Indiana. I've received 170mhz MOSWIN (Missouri), 450mhz SIRN (West Virginia), and 150mhz VA STARS (Virgina) as well; all with an antenna that is 25 feet above ground level. So, any freq can bounce off the ionosphere under the right conditions.
Wow, I didn't know they could do that! That's interesting. 👍
 
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