• 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.

    If you are having trouble legally obtaining software please state so. We do not want any hurt feelings when your vague post is mistaken for a free request. It is YOUR responsibility to properly word your request.

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

    The various other vendors often permit their dealers to sell the software online (i.e., Kenwood). Please use Google or some other search engine to find a dealer that sells the software. Typically each series or individual radio requires its own software package. Often the Kenwood software is less than $100 so don't be a cheapskate; just purchase it.

    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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RCA radios and programming

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Are you saying Nipper is no longer living? OMG - That is sad.
He can no longer hear, "My Master's Voice". The TV station where I worked used a lot of RCA Tactec radios which supposedly stood for Totally Advanced Communications Technology. Most of the failures in the handhelds could be repaired by resoldering the circuit board. We had an RCA repeater for our engineering radios. The output power dropped to about 5 watts. I replaced the lighthouse tube in the final and retuned it to get it back to normal. The RCA term for CCTSS was QC for Quiet Channel as opposed to Motorola using PL for Private Line and General Electric using CG for Channel Guard. In our news vehicles, we had a lot of consoles in the front to plug in the handhelds to use as a mobile unit. There was a 35 watt amp in the trunk. We later switched to Motorola radios. I drew the short straw and had to do most of the radio installations. I always kept my legs hanging out when working in the trunk to prevent the guys I worked with from closing the trunk with me inside.
 
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