hello, I am looking for some help. my work uses the Retevis RT22 Radio's for channels 1-16. I bought 2 new Retevis RT85 Radio's and I am trying to get them to work with the RT22's. I was able to program channel 1 (462,5625) I am able to hear everyone on that station but when I hit the PTT button no one can hear me. could someone give me some guidance on how I can program these channels on the RT85. I am new and just started getting into the Radio's
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Retevis Programming help
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Welcome to the RR forums. Is your work aware and OK with you using personally owned radios on their channels? Speak to whomever is responsible for programming your work's radios to see if they'll lend you a hand
The RT22 is an FRS UHF family radio using unlicensed freqs. The RT85 is an Amateur/ham radio that is not leagal to use (transmit) on FRS freqs. To use the RT85 on the Amateur bands you need an Amateur radio license to transmit, but not to listen to any frequency it can receive.
My apologies; I didn't know that you're in Canada. Sorry about that.
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Try entering the TX tone as 67.0 in the menu options. I believe that is the default CTCSS tone for channel 1 on the RT 22. CTCSS or PL codes are subaudible tones that accompany the radio frequency that can be used to silence other users on the frequency and only allow other radios transmitting the same frequency and code to break the squelch. You are transmitting on the correct frequency, but missing the tone.
From looking at the manual for the RT85, it should be menu item #25. YouTube should have some videos that might help with this. Try the one below.
From looking at the manual for the RT85, it should be menu item #25. YouTube should have some videos that might help with this. Try the one below.
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CCR Default Frequencies - The RadioReference Wiki
This page shows the RT22 programming as follows:
- Retevis RT22
1 462.1250 69.3
2 462.2250
3 462.3250
4 462.4250 103.5
5 462.5250 114.8
6 462.6250 127.3
7 462.7250 136.5
8 462.8250 162.2
9 462.9250 D025
10 463.0250 D051
11 463.1250 D125
12 463.2250 D155I
13 463.5250 D465I
14 450.2250 D023
15 460.3250
16 469.9500 203.5
However, where my wife works, they use RT68s and this is the default programming:
Retevis RT68
1 462.5625 67.0 PL
2 462.5875 118.8 PL
3 462.6125 127.3 PL
4 462.6375 131.8 PL
5 462.6625 136.5
6 462.625 127.3
7 462.725 141.3
8 462.6875 141.3
9 462.7125 146.2
10 462.55 123.0
11 462.575 654 DPL
12 462.600 455 DPL
13 462.650 351 DPL
14 462.675 606 DPL
15 462.700 155 DPL
16 462.725 252 DPL
I took one of my Whistler scanners to her work and used the Spectrum Sweep option to figure out the default programming of the RT68s.
If you already know that channel 1 is 462.5625, then it may have the same programming as the RT68.
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