• 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).

    This is a large and very visible forum. We cannot jeopardize the ability to provide the RadioReference services by allowing this activity to occur. Please respect this.

Talkpod A36plus in GMRS mode won't transmit on GMRS repeaters?

wm8s

wm8s

Member
Premium Subscriber
Joined
Oct 30, 2004
Messages
787
Location
Houston, TX
Anybody else have this problem? I can't believe it's just my radio, but I also can't believe that something as obvious as transmitting on GMRS repeaters in GMRS mode wouldn't have been caught by someone else sooner.

0- My radios running the latest firmware: 1.23.
1- Put the radio into GMRS mode [PTT + 2 + Power on]. Radio says "GMRS" and reboots.
2- All the memories have been replaced with the 22 simplex GMRS channels. They all seem to work fine.
3- Go to memory 15 [which by the regs is also available as a repeater], or using the CPS....
4- Change the offset to + and 5.000 Mhz. I.e., it should be receiving on 462.550 and transmitting on 467.550.
5- Key the PTT. Mine bonks instead of transmitting. It transmits on all simplex channels just fine.

Should I return this one? Multiple reflashes, reprogramming, resets, etc., to no avail.
 
RFI-EMI-GUY

RFI-EMI-GUY

Member
Joined
Dec 22, 2013
Messages
6,882
I am surprised you have to do anything special to put it into GMRS mode. The US versions only transmit on GMRS. It is supposed to be 30 channels. I would not expect that it would be permitted to adjust the offset to anything outside GMRS +5.
 
wm8s

wm8s

Member
Premium Subscriber
Joined
Oct 30, 2004
Messages
787
Location
Houston, TX
As shipped, my radio was already in GMRS mode, so I didn't have to do anything special to it. I was only noting that if your radio is in Extended mode, in order to reproduce what I'm seeing, you'll have to put it back into GMRS mode. The whole point of the question is that in GMRS mode, I cannot get the radio to transmit on the input of GMRS repeaters.

So I'm not sure what your last sentence means. I described programming in a GMRS repeater channel — 462.550 +5.000 MHz — either from the faceplate or through the CPS; that isn't "outside GMRS +5".
 
mmckenna

mmckenna

I ♥ Ø
Joined
Jul 27, 2005
Messages
23,900
Location
Roaming the Intermountain West
Appears you are not the only person who's had this issue:

forums.radioreference.com

Talkpod A36 Plus

Hi all, This radio (Talkpod A36 Plus) was recently released, and has been getting quite a bit of positive reviews...so I bought one. Granted, for $50 I wasn't expecting much, but was surprised that it did more than I previously thought. My question is this: It has the capability to encode...
forums.radioreference.com forums.radioreference.com
 
wm8s

wm8s

Member
Premium Subscriber
Joined
Oct 30, 2004
Messages
787
Location
Houston, TX
mmckenna said:
Appears you are not the only person who's had this issue:

forums.radioreference.com

Talkpod A36 Plus

Hi all, This radio (Talkpod A36 Plus) was recently released, and has been getting quite a bit of positive reviews...so I bought one. Granted, for $50 I wasn't expecting much, but was surprised that it did more than I previously thought. My question is this: It has the capability to encode...
forums.radioreference.com forums.radioreference.com
Click to expand...

Thanks! How did I miss that?!?

I also emailed their service department to no avail. It's obvious a [horrible!] bug. In GMRS mode, it's really just an FRS radio at this point, since I can't use channels 23-30 [i.e., repeaters on channels 15-22]. Good grief...
 
wm8s

wm8s

Member
Premium Subscriber
Joined
Oct 30, 2004
Messages
787
Location
Houston, TX
I will never get this radio with 3.5 miles of a spectrum analyzer....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

KD7RJC
Turn TIDRADIO TD-H5 into a ham radio
Replies
0
Views
246
KD7RJC
KD7RJC
S
Alinco DJ-G46
Replies
5
Views
1K
JASII
J
K
XTL/XTS5000 Programming repeater on XTS5000
Replies
10
Views
929
a417
A
S
Audio Distortion on 2 Meter FM
Replies
14
Views
1K
ShawnInPaso
S
N9JIG
Anytone PL Encode weirdness on the AT-5888UV
Replies
1
Views
720
N9JIG
N9JIG
Top