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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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Using a Motorola P25 radio as a scanner.

Thread starter N0OVC
Start date Jul 20, 2022

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wa8pyr

Retired and playing radio whenever I want.

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Jul 24, 2022

GTR8000 said:
Tom, you're confusing the TG/AG Disabled setting in the trunking personalities with the radio-wide TX Inhibit function that can be mapped to the XTS or APX portable concentric switch (or mapped to a menu item on an APX mobile). Two different functions; the former only prevents the radio from transmitting on talkgroups, the latter prevents the radio from transmitting at all. Literally zero RF passing through the power amplifier.

D'oh! You're right, dopey me

; I forgot all about that control selection since I always use the concentric switch for keypad lock. Never even tried TX Inhibit, nor would I want to for NAS use (which I don't have to use anyway