Hello, I have a Vertex VX3200U I am wanting to use on conventional. The radio I have is the LTR trunking version. I've been told it's possible to make make this radio do conventional radio to radio like I need it to do. Has anyone here done this or be able to help me figure out this is done? I have CE52 that I use to program my VX2500 conventional. I also bought CE47 when I bought the VX2500 not knowing there are two different versions of the software but haven't used it of course since all I transmit on is conventional. Thank You!
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Vertex VX3200U LTR
- Thread starter TrevorMollenbeck
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radiotweester
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Use CE-47 and you'll have 128 or 250 (can't remember which) conventional channels. The initial setup is a bit of a pain that a regular convention FM setup. I've used a VX-427A for this, but setup is almost identical. Yes, they will do HAM with a file mod.
Read the radio and save.
THEN modify that read file.
Start with the RF Ch.List (TX/RX and W/N)
Save the file with a new name.
Go to SYSTEM (same as zone/group) Enable that SYS name it and figure out how many channels you want (you can modify it later), set it to Conventional.
Then go to Groups and select the freqs you want in channel order and set your tones and everything else I've red dotted. Make sure TX Inhibit is set to TX Enable or no TX.
Advanced tab has talkaround/direct setting
Make sure to assign your buttons and your scan.
It doesn't offer 2-tone decode and there are a few other odd things.
Read the radio and save.
THEN modify that read file.
Start with the RF Ch.List (TX/RX and W/N)
Save the file with a new name.
Go to SYSTEM (same as zone/group) Enable that SYS name it and figure out how many channels you want (you can modify it later), set it to Conventional.
Then go to Groups and select the freqs you want in channel order and set your tones and everything else I've red dotted. Make sure TX Inhibit is set to TX Enable or no TX.
Advanced tab has talkaround/direct setting
Make sure to assign your buttons and your scan.
It doesn't offer 2-tone decode and there are a few other odd things.
Sounds good, thank you very much! I’ll give this a try next time I get a chance to try programming it, might be this weekend or could be sooner too depending on my work schedule. I’ll let you know how it goes though! Thank you again!!!
Got a chance to program the radio over the weekend and it worked perfectly. Thank you so much for helping me out with this! I can’t quite figure out how to get a scan list created though. That was my only problem. If you have any pointers on that I’d greatly appreciate that too!