• 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.

    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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Remember your CB radio call sign?

N9PBD

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My dad's license was KGI-6225, and our neighbor's down the road was KGI-8103. I can remember them chatting late at night on the old Johnson Viking Messengers (I've still got two of them down in the basement). My dad was quality control at the Plectron plant, and our neighbor was the town TV repairman.
 

trentbob

W3BUX- Bucks County, PA
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... KOG0554... 1965... Montgomery County, Pa (my Dad applied for it as I was 12)... we got denied at first because he put "one" radio... had a Lafayette HE-90... collinear 2 on the roof... we also had a marine radio license WM6934... lots of great fun... 73's... Bob...
 

KB2ZY0

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Pheonix Arizona
KPW-7650 Cedar Rapids Iowa, 1972. Had a 5 W Midland13-861 23 Channel CB (The one in the leather case) strapped to the back of my Schwinn Sting Ray. Ate D Cells like Mad, but I did a LOT of chatting on it. I'm a 2 Meter, 1.5 Meter, and 70 Cm Ham Nowadays, but whenever I use my CB Base Station, I still use my old FCC Issued CB Call for Ident.
 

Heywood49

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KOR1053 -- We had a couple of Johnson mobile radios but I can't remember the base station. This was about 1965 I think..
 

k8krh

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KXJ1927/MANSFIELD OHIO...GONSET 5 CHANNEL, graduated from a kit I built forgot name it was from CHICAGO, super regen receiver and 2 crystal transmitter, used the tv antenna and talked across town, Gonset had a GOTHAM VERTICAL and talked maybe 12 miles..DX land, SWR who knows
DOCTOR/795/KXJ1927
 

skynet888

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CB call sign

Wow back in the 70's mine was Neptune Base on AM and on SSB I called myself unit 40. then in the 90's I got back into CB radio and called myself Skynet. Now in 2015 I continue to come myself Skynet.
 
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