minitor v for weather alerting

[KK4ELO]

ok, so i saw the trhead on the minitor II for this subject, but what about the minitor v? i know i would need a 160-174 pager, but could it be done fairly easily with the software for a normal vhf split?

i know, i know....just get a weather monitor. it does me no good at all when im not at home. this would be easier to carry around, and easier to know whats going on when im out and about.

 

[SteveC0625]

ok, so i saw the trhead on the minitor II for this subject, but what about the minitor v? i know i would need a 160-174 pager, but could it be done fairly easily with the software for a normal vhf split?

If you have the right frequency split, it would just take about a minute in the programming cradle to program in the weather frequency.

If you have a V and are already using it for fire or ems, you'll need a two channel model to add in the NOAA weather.

III's and IV's will work also fine for this and I don't believe the NOAA channels are affected by the narrowband mandate.

 

[KK4ELO]

thanks for the reply steve. i found a minitor IV for $70 and the guy will program it for me. so it looks like im in good shape.

 

[ffexpCP]

Portable and a lot cheaper. SAME decoding too.

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[FIREPHIGHT]

ok so i built a cradel to program my minitor 5 to the 160 band split but when i read the radio i have limited options someone told me i need a diffrent software and a password to be able to acsses the bandsplit. anyone know of where to get this? my minitor is currently a 2 channel but on the 154 split and i wanted to add the weather band split to the second channel

 

[ffexpCP]

Band is set by the hardware. Changing the programming and keeping the same (wrong boards) will cause issues.

translation: don't do it.

 

[gewecke]

ok so i built a cradel to program my minitor 5 to the 160 band split but when i read the radio i have limited options someone told me i need a diffrent software and a password to be able to acsses the bandsplit. anyone know of where to get this? my minitor is currently a 2 channel but on the 154 split and i wanted to add the weather band split to the second channel

Another choice would be to just have NOAA severe weather updates sent to your cell phone, something that can be done in minutes.

73,
n9zas

 

[WX9EMS]

I don't know about a Minitor V, but I did some hex editing with the Minitor III software and was able to get it down to our local repeater at 146.865, I would imagine the same would apply going to 162.XXX, not that far; Moto gear is usually good a few Mhz out of its bandsplit usually without sacrificing performance drastically. There is a write up on getting to Engineer Mode on Batboard, look it up. I don't have a codeplug to try, so I do not know if it works.

 

[NCFire11]

I don't know about a Minitor V, but I did some hex editing with the Minitor III software and was able to get it down to our local repeater at 146.865, I would imagine the same would apply going to 162.XXX, not that far; Moto gear is usually good a few Mhz out of its bandsplit usually without sacrificing performance drastically. There is a write up on getting to Engineer Mode on Batboard, look it up. I don't have a codeplug to try, so I do not know if it works.

It -will- work, but like others said it probably will cause issues..

 

[FIREPHIGHT]

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did the engineer log in trick and found that you can only select band splits that are in you range . you cant go from 155.190 on f1 and 162.550 on f2 the program has selected band splits

 

[WX9EMS]

I think I read somewhere that they allow you 3 or 4 Mhz between channels on a Minitor V.

 

[NCFire11]

The minitor series has predetermined frequency sets for a reason. That set needs to match the internal antenna's resonance, to achieve maximum sensitivity. These things are (supposed to be) good, and work every time.