woodyschassis
Member
First off, I'm new. Just joined a few minutes ago. Second, I'm not a radio guy. I use my radios in my race car, and for my volunteer fire dept. Third, I'm hopefully not asking any question that I'm not supposed to according to the rules.
There thats out of the way....what I need help with.
As I said I use my radios to race with. When we go from sanctioning body to sanctioning body, everyone's got their own frequency. Some times its not so bad cause there'll be a radio guy there that can change it for me. Sometimes tho, there is no guy, and I get stuck leaving my radios in the trailer cause there on the wrong frequency, and have to rent from the sanctioning body.
The other scenario is, I use them for volunteering at my local fire department. Well, if another department switches frequencies....I'm off to the radio shop and dropping 15-20 bucks a pop.
Is there anyway, anywhere that I can buy the stuf to change the frequencies myself? Thus saving myself in the long run. Any frequency I would be programming into my radio; I have permission to be on.
I own Radius SP50 by Motorola radios. I own 3 of them. They are currently set us as 2 channel radios, but I was poking around some gadget website and it said that the 2 channel radios could be programmed with 10 channels by simply adding the channels through programming, and changing the 2 channel knob to a 10 channel knob. Well, I lifted my knob slightly, and sure enough, there are 10 detents in the switch. The knob however has a lock out section on it that only allows it to be in 2 positions. Is it really that simple to turn my 2 channel radios into 10 channel radios??
I really could use some guidance.....can I make or buy something to do what I wanting, or is this way over my head and I need to go to my local radio guy?
Thanks for your imput, Sonny
There thats out of the way....what I need help with.
As I said I use my radios to race with. When we go from sanctioning body to sanctioning body, everyone's got their own frequency. Some times its not so bad cause there'll be a radio guy there that can change it for me. Sometimes tho, there is no guy, and I get stuck leaving my radios in the trailer cause there on the wrong frequency, and have to rent from the sanctioning body.
The other scenario is, I use them for volunteering at my local fire department. Well, if another department switches frequencies....I'm off to the radio shop and dropping 15-20 bucks a pop.
Is there anyway, anywhere that I can buy the stuf to change the frequencies myself? Thus saving myself in the long run. Any frequency I would be programming into my radio; I have permission to be on.
I own Radius SP50 by Motorola radios. I own 3 of them. They are currently set us as 2 channel radios, but I was poking around some gadget website and it said that the 2 channel radios could be programmed with 10 channels by simply adding the channels through programming, and changing the 2 channel knob to a 10 channel knob. Well, I lifted my knob slightly, and sure enough, there are 10 detents in the switch. The knob however has a lock out section on it that only allows it to be in 2 positions. Is it really that simple to turn my 2 channel radios into 10 channel radios??
I really could use some guidance.....can I make or buy something to do what I wanting, or is this way over my head and I need to go to my local radio guy?
Thanks for your imput, Sonny