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I am a new ham with an FT-60 R/E. I have a list of frequencies by city that are used in emergencies and for net control. It looks like the memory banks might be what I am looking for.?
Memory Bank 1 for Sunnyvale,CA frequency list Memory Bank 2 for Mountain View, CA frequency list Memory Bank 3 for Los Gatos, CA frequency list etc.?
This way I could have a long list of frequencies divided by city. I have looked at the manual and am confused. The current single list of frequencies I have on my Yaesu was added using Chirp.?
Does anyone know of a source for a good explanation of how the Yaesu Memory bank work??
Is it possible to use Chirp to load the frequencies into the various memory banks?
Thanks for anyone that can point me in the right direction.
Joy
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Joy,
I use the banks to divide the frequencies into groups for different parts of the state (and neighboring states) so that I can enable and disable scanning those channels as I travel around the state...which I do about once or twice a month. That way when I am around my house, I only scan the repeaters near my house, but when I travel to Denver, I can turn off the bank containing my home repeaters and enable the bank with the Denver repeaters.
Bank 1 = Colorado Simplex frequencies
Bank 2 = Repeaters reachable near my home
Bank 3 = Denver
Bank 4 = Pueblo & Canon City
Bank 5 = New Mexico
etc.
Bank 10 = Public Service (monitor only) - we still use VHF in my rural county.
How to use it? Well, I got this all from the manual, but it is complicated - this is one of the most powerful features of the FT60 in my opinion, but is is complicated to program and somewhat complicated to use.
What you do is to load the frequencies using CHIRP or RT Systems or G4HFQ software. Put them in whatever order makes sense to you. I have mine in ascending by frequency, but blocked a little bit. 0-100 is simplex
100-300 is Colorado, 300's is NM, above 900 is Public Service. But I am thinking of doing it just by frequency as that seems to make more sense when I am hunting for a channel. But the jury is still out for me on that point :)
Anyway. What can you use banks for? Once you understand that, you can understand how to assign banks to channels. I said it that way on purpose. That seems to be the way the SW I use is organized ...but after you do it, you have the effect of having channels assigned to banks. The FT60 has 10 banks, each channel can be in zero banks or up to all ten. The banks control the channels you can select by using the channel select knob AND the channels that are scanned. The Specifics of enabling banks on and off will take too long (I gotta go to work) for this post. When banks are enabled, the channels you can select are ONLY those from that bank. You can select multiple banks for multi-bank scanning. Or you can scan just the selected bank.
You can use CHIRP to assign banks to channels - there is a separate tab for that. But I find G4HFQ to be MUCH easier for this particular task. SO I use G4HFQ - see their docs and you'll see what I mean. I can set up the channels and banks in Excel and use all my favorite fill and sort and filter tools in Excel to handle the hundreds of frequencies (we have 300+ repeaters in Colorado alone and I want this radio to be ready to handle any of them when I travel).
If this doesn't get you over the hump, let me know.
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From your description of what you want, I think memory banks are exactly what you want. Great call! ? “liverman at att.net” just posted a good explanation so I’ll not repeat but hopefully expand. ? As he(?) alluded to, the ordering of entries in the memory locations is completely separate from how you can assign them to a memory bank.? At first we made entries into the memory locations in an order that made sense to us.? Don’t recall our thoughts at the time on the ordering… ? We finally decided to keep things simple for us and made the memory organization identical to our local EOC (Mountain View).? That way when we worked the EOC and needed to go to a specific frequency, we generally knew the memory #.? For example, MTV tactical 1 or County Message Net or Hospital Net.? The reverse was also true: after working the EOC, the FT60 locations were easier to remember.? I’m pretty sure your EC, Jerry, has a file of the typical Sunnyvale settings that he passes out.? I’m sure he’ll give you the file – if it isn’t online already!? If you need contact information for Jerry or any EC in the County, go to the County website.? If you have issues getting that, contact me off list. ? I know we all in MTV can get a file with the MTV EOC “load”.? There is no requirement that we do but most people use it.? My YL & I have the same basic memories in all our radios which really helps if we grab one of our old backup HTs or use the mobile rig in the “other” car ? We also decided to use the huge number of memories available along with the Banks. Bank 1 is memory location 1 through 300 and all memory channels are set to display the frequency. Bank 2 is memory location 401 through 700 and all memory channels are set to display the call sign.? Easy for repeaters, needs some tweaking for simplex.? The ordering is the same as 1-300: memory 1 has the same settings as memory 401 other than the display. Bank 3 is memory locations 701 through 1000 and all memory channels are set to display the tactical call.? Again, the order is the same.? Memory 1 == memory 401 == memory 701 ? For example, one memory, call it X, displays the repeater frequency of 145.270, the location 400 away, 40X, show W6ASH, and the one 700 away, 70X, shows RSCNOR (for resource net north).? This bank style allows us to more easily follow instructions regardless of style. ? So what about the 300-400 gap?? We placed all the police and fire departments in there with the display set to their tactical call, whatever they themselves use. ? We come nowhere close to using all the memories even with this tripling.? Wonderful radio! ? We have fun with the other banks ????????????? When we work an public service event, we use bank 10 to designate/tag all the frequency used by that event.? If the use a frequency not in our standard load, we use one of the spare locations.? This not only makes it easy to avoid getting on the wrong channel during the chaos of an event, if things get boring you can scan all the event frequencies (but be sure to use the pause and not the stop scan or you can lose track of your own messages!)? Well, this actually only is practical at events where most of the channels are low traffic – otherwise I find it too distracting.? My wife is better at not getting distracted than I am! ????????????? Remember that a specific memory channel can be assigned to more than one bank.? This merely means here that a setting channel can be assigned to the public service bank without affecting its availability to the “normal” bank. ????????????? We have a back assigned to the local police & fire.? In our case, MTV, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and yours: Sunnyvale.? That’s just for fun.? General set the FT60 to scan when this bank is active. ????????????? For events that occur every year, we use the other banks.? Los Altos Festival of Lights gets a bank.? Tour De Cure gets one. ? Let your imagination run wild.? What we did works for us but there are a lot a other great ideas out there! ? Andy
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On May 8, 2017 12:20:55 AM EDT, "doghouse3@... [FT-60]" wrote: I am a new ham with an FT-60 R/E. I have a list of frequencies by city that are used in emergencies and for net control. It looks like the memory banks might be what I am looking for. ? Memory Bank 1 for Sunnyvale,CA frequency list Memory Bank 2 for Mountain View, CA frequency list Memory Bank 3 for Los Gatos, CA frequency list etc. ? This way I could have a long list of frequencies divided by city. I have looked at the manual and am confused. The current single list of frequencies I have on my Yaesu was added using Chirp. ? Does anyone know of a source for a good explanation of how the Yaesu Memory bank work? ? Is it possible to use Chirp to load the frequencies into the various memory banks? ? Thanks for anyone that can point me in the right direction. ? Joy
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The FT60 does not use "memory banks". There are 999 memory "channels", not separated by "banks", as older scanners used to be.?
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On May 7, 2017, at 9:20 PM, doghouse3@... [FT-60] < FT-60@...> wrote:
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I am a new ham with an FT-60 R/E. I have a list of frequencies by city that are used in emergencies and for net control. It looks like the memory banks might be what I am looking for.?
Memory Bank 1 for Sunnyvale,CA frequency list Memory Bank 2 for Mountain View, CA frequency list Memory Bank 3 for Los Gatos, CA frequency list etc.?
This way I could have a long list of frequencies divided by city. I have looked at the manual and am confused. The current single list of frequencies I have on my Yaesu was added using Chirp.?
Does anyone know of a source for a good explanation of how the Yaesu Memory bank work??
Is it possible to use Chirp to load the frequencies into the various memory banks?
Thanks for anyone that can point me in the right direction.
Joy
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Chirp can definitely arrange channels
into memories, I group them into regions that I travel to.? One
thing I like to do is place a "dummy" channel at the beginning of
each memory group, with a regional name to identify the group.
- Aldo
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Umm.. That is incorrect.?
The FT-60 has up to 10 memory banks, or groups. See page 33 of the manual for details. And they are made for essentially exactly what you are trying to do. You would create a master bank with cross-populated memories, and then individual banks for each municipality or jurisdiction you wish to have separated.?
But, you can achieve sort of the same thing just segregating your channels in a single bank too, which is what most people do. It's not like the FT-60 makes for a good scanner. And it is single receive only. You are only operating on a single channel at any given time. But... that is totally up to you. Your radio, and your organization. You will figure it out. And as soon as you have it all programmed in there, and use a it a few times, you will probably decide to change it around again anyway - just like the rest of us. ?:)
I do not recall if CHIRP supported the memory banks. You may want to get something like RTS software if you really want to move things around and fully utilize the memory banks.
Ray?
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From: "Mark Lassman kb6kgx@... [FT-60]" < FT-60@...> Sent: 5/8/2017 8:04:57 AM
Subject: Re: [FT-60] Is there a good explanation on how to use Yaesu Memory banks?
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The FT60 does not use "memory banks". There are 999 memory "channels", not separated by "banks", as older scanners used to be.?
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I am a new ham with an FT-60 R/E. I have a list of frequencies by city that are used in emergencies and for net control. It looks like the memory banks might be what I am looking for.?
Memory Bank 1 for Sunnyvale,CA frequency list Memory Bank 2 for Mountain View, CA frequency list Memory Bank 3 for Los Gatos, CA frequency list etc.?
This way I could have a long list of frequencies divided by city. I have looked at the manual and am confused. The current single list of frequencies I have on my Yaesu was added using Chirp.?
Does anyone know of a source for a good explanation of how the Yaesu Memory bank work??
Is it possible to use Chirp to load the frequencies into the various memory banks?
Thanks for anyone that can point me in the right direction.
Joy
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I HAVE the RT Systems (ADMS) software, but I haven’t seen that I can do “banks”. I just have them in “hundreds” for each type of service: 001-100 “City Fire”, 101-200 “County Fire”, etc..
No, it doesn’t make for a “great” scanner, but certainly an adequate one, so long as you don’t need P25 or trunking.
I’ll look at the manual, as you suggest, to see what it has about “banks”.
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Umm.. That is incorrect.?
The FT-60 has up to 10 memory banks, or groups. See page 33 of the manual for details. And they are made for essentially exactly what you are trying to do. You would create a master bank with cross-populated memories, and then individual banks for each municipality or jurisdiction you wish to have separated.?
But, you can achieve sort of the same thing just segregating your channels in a single bank too, which is what most people do. It's not like the FT-60 makes for a good scanner. And it is single receive only. You are only operating on a single channel at any given time. But... that is totally up to you. Your radio, and your organization. You will figure it out. And as soon as you have it all programmed in there, and use a it a few times, you will probably decide to change it around again anyway - just like the rest of us. ?:)
I do not recall if CHIRP supported the memory banks. You may want to get something like RTS software if you really want to move things around and fully utilize the memory banks.
Ray?
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The FT60 does not use "memory banks". There are 999 memory "channels", not separated by "banks", as older scanners used to be.?
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I am a new ham with an FT-60 R/E. I have a list of frequencies by city that are used in emergencies and for net control. It looks like the memory banks might be what I am looking for.?
Memory Bank 1 for Sunnyvale,CA frequency list Memory Bank 2 for Mountain View, CA frequency list Memory Bank 3 for Los Gatos, CA frequency list etc.?
This way I could have a long list of frequencies divided by city. I have looked at the manual and am confused. The current single list of frequencies I have on my Yaesu was added using Chirp.?
Does anyone know of a source for a good explanation of how the Yaesu Memory bank work??
Is it possible to use Chirp to load the frequencies into the various memory banks?
Thanks for anyone that can point me in the right direction.
Joy
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The FT-60R DOES have Memory Bank capability.
See page 33 in the FT-60R manual on Yaesu's website.
73, Jim K5JG
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On 5/8/2017 10:04 AM, Mark Lassman kb6kgx@... [FT-60] wrote:
The FT60 does not use "memory banks". There are 999 memory "channels",
not separated by "banks", as older scanners used to be.
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Don't forget that banks can be linked,? Thus, you could scan bank
2 AND bank 5 at the same time.
73, Nick, AA3T
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On 5/8/2017 12:48 PM, Mark Lassman
kb6kgx@... [FT-60] wrote:
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I HAVE the RT Systems (ADMS) software, but I haven’t seen
that I can do “banks”. I just have them in “hundreds” for
each type of service: 001-100 “City Fire”, 101-200 “County
Fire”, etc..
No, it doesn’t make for a “great” scanner, but
certainly an adequate one, so long as you don’t need P25
or trunking.
I’ll look at the manual, as you suggest, to
see what it has about “banks”.
Umm.. That is incorrect.?
The FT-60 has up to 10 memory
banks, or groups. See page 33 of the manual
for details. And they are made for
essentially exactly what you are trying to
do. You would create a master bank with
cross-populated memories, and then
individual banks for each municipality or
jurisdiction you wish to have separated.?
But, you can achieve sort of the
same thing just segregating your channels in
a single bank too, which is what most people
do. It's not like the FT-60 makes for a good
scanner. And it is single receive only. You
are only operating on a single channel at
any given time. But... that is totally up to
you. Your radio, and your organization. You
will figure it out. And as soon as you have
it all programmed in there, and use a it a
few times, you will probably decide to
change it around again anyway - just like
the rest of us. ?:)
I do not recall if CHIRP
supported the memory banks. You may want to
get something like RTS software if you
really want to move things around and fully
utilize the memory banks.
Ray?
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Sent: 5/8/2017 8:04:57 AM
Subject: Re: [FT-60] Is there a
good explanation on how to use Yaesu Memory
banks?
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The FT60 does not use
"memory banks". There are 999 memory
"channels", not separated by "banks",
as older scanners used to be.?
?
I am a
new ham with an FT-60 R/E. I
have a list of frequencies by
city that are used in
emergencies and for net
control. It looks like the
memory banks might be what I
am looking for.?
Memory
Bank 1 for Sunnyvale,CA
frequency list
Memory Bank 2 for
Mountain View, CA frequency list
Memory Bank 3 for Los
Gatos, CA frequency list
etc.?
This way I could have a
long list of frequencies divided
by city. I have looked at the
manual and am confused. The
current single list of
frequencies I have on my Yaesu
was added using Chirp.?
Does anyone know of a
source for a good explanation of
how the Yaesu Memory bank work??
Is it possible to use
Chirp to load the frequencies
into the various memory banks?
Thanks for anyone that
can point me in the right
direction.
Joy
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Think of the memory banks as more as memory groups.? Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Message sent through sub space hailing frequencies?using the Universal Translator.?
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On May 8, 2017, at 16:21, Margy & Nick Rylatt rylatt@... [FT-60] < FT-60@...> wrote:
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Don't forget that banks can be linked,? Thus, you could scan bank
2 AND bank 5 at the same time.
73, Nick, AA3T
Sent from our laptop
On 5/8/2017 12:48 PM, Mark Lassman
kb6kgx@... [FT-60] wrote:
?
I HAVE the RT Systems (ADMS) software, but I haven’t seen
that I can do “banks”. I just have them in “hundreds” for
each type of service: 001-100 “City Fire”, 101-200 “County
Fire”, etc..
No, it doesn’t make for a “great” scanner, but
certainly an adequate one, so long as you don’t need P25
or trunking.
I’ll look at the manual, as you suggest, to
see what it has about “banks”.
Umm.. That is incorrect.?
The FT-60 has up to 10 memory
banks, or groups. See page 33 of the manual
for details. And they are made for
essentially exactly what you are trying to
do. You would create a master bank with
cross-populated memories, and then
individual banks for each municipality or
jurisdiction you wish to have separated.?
But, you can achieve sort of the
same thing just segregating your channels in
a single bank too, which is what most people
do. It's not like the FT-60 makes for a good
scanner. And it is single receive only. You
are only operating on a single channel at
any given time. But... that is totally up to
you. Your radio, and your organization. You
will figure it out. And as soon as you have
it all programmed in there, and use a it a
few times, you will probably decide to
change it around again anyway - just like
the rest of us. ?:)
I do not recall if CHIRP
supported the memory banks. You may want to
get something like RTS software if you
really want to move things around and fully
utilize the memory banks.
Ray?
------ Original Message ------
Sent: 5/8/2017 8:04:57 AM
Subject: Re: [FT-60] Is there a
good explanation on how to use Yaesu Memory
banks?
?
The FT60 does not use
"memory banks". There are 999 memory
"channels", not separated by "banks",
as older scanners used to be.?
?
I am a
new ham with an FT-60 R/E. I
have a list of frequencies by
city that are used in
emergencies and for net
control. It looks like the
memory banks might be what I
am looking for.?
Memory
Bank 1 for Sunnyvale,CA
frequency list
Memory Bank 2 for
Mountain View, CA frequency list
Memory Bank 3 for Los
Gatos, CA frequency list
etc.?
This way I could have a
long list of frequencies divided
by city. I have looked at the
manual and am confused. The
current single list of
frequencies I have on my Yaesu
was added using Chirp.?
Does anyone know of a
source for a good explanation of
how the Yaesu Memory bank work??
Is it possible to use
Chirp to load the frequencies
into the various memory banks?
Thanks for anyone that
can point me in the right
direction.
Joy
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Wow!!!! You (this group) are GREAT! I have read the manual about the memory banks but I think part of the problem is I'm new to ham radio and I don't know the lingo. I did get some valuable tips from you. I especially liked the one about using the first channel as the name of the bank. That is a great idea that I would never have thought of.?
My city, Sunnyvale, is having a training meeting next week and I am hoping to get some hands on help from people there.?
Another issue I have is that I have a Mac (don't boo me!) and I am finding that many of the programs are PC only. I do have a raspberry pi that I am going to load wine on which is supposed to be able to run some windows program without actually having windows (although I do have an un-opened copy of windows 7). I am trying to talk my husband into letting me load some windows ham programs on one of his computers. (We'll see how that goes). I have been using Chirp on my Mac.
I am planning on going to the field day in June and if I don't have it figured out by then I may be able to get some guidance there.?
Thank you so much for all your great suggestions, Joy KM6IFL
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I really agree with you. The people here help without making me feel bad. That is something?
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 19:52, doghouse3@... [FT-60] wrote:
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Wow!!!! You (this group) are GREAT! I have read the manual about the memory banks but I think part of the problem is I'm new to ham radio and I don't know the lingo. I did get some valuable tips from you. I especially liked the one about using the first channel as the name of the bank. That is a great idea that I would never have thought of.?
My city, Sunnyvale, is having a training meeting next week and I am hoping to get some hands on help from people there.?
Another issue I have is that I have a Mac (don't boo me!) and I am finding that many of the programs are PC only. I do have a raspberry pi that I am going to load wine on which is supposed to be able to run some windows program without actually having windows (although I do have an un-opened copy of windows 7). I am trying to talk my husband into letting me load some windows ham programs on one of his computers. (We'll see how that goes). I have been using Chirp on my Mac.
I am planning on going to the field day in June and if I don't have it figured out by then I may be able to get some guidance there.?
Thank you so much for all your great suggestions, Joy KM6IFL
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UPDATE: I found what I needed to know, sort of, in the manual after all. I am unclear though; if I am scanning in a memory bank and I interrupt the scan by pushing PTT to listen do I have to go through all the steps it took to start scanning in a memory bank or do I just hold the up/down button for 1 second like I do now to start it back up?
Hi. This was a great post and I found it very informative. I am new to amateur radio and? to the FT-60. Could you help me to understand how, once I have the banks set up, do I go about scanning in them. I have the manual. I have read it. Some how I don't get it. Have you any advice or instruction? Thank so much and
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Al McManus???? KN6ZVI
San Martin, CA
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Good evening
I am not sure by what you mean by all the steps??it took to start scanning in a memory bank.........
I turned my FT60.? Made sure it was in memory mode.? It was scanning bank 1.
It was paused since I just turned it on.? I pressed the UP arrow on the top right side of the keypad. It began scanning upwards.
I pressed PTT.
It stopped.
I pressed the UP button and it resumes where it left off.
I hope this helps.
The FT60 is? a great little dual bander.;
73 Frank KB3PQT
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Here's my take on programming and memory banks:?http://www.winterwren.com/HamRadio/RadioProgramming/HamRadioProgramming.html
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I thought you had a well written piece there.
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73
Al McManus???? KN6ZVI
San Martin, CA
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Banks are a logical collection of memories, in other words, a group of memories that have something in common, sometimes beyond just being for the same agency or group. For example, say that you live in an area prone to wildfires. A bank could contain memories for city, county and state fire, law, National Forest, EMS, even Red Cross, etc. In California, we have "MTZs" or Mutual Threat Zones, areas that have adjoining jurisdictions. Those MTZs have pre-defined communications plans using frequencies from the involved agencies as well as Federal mutual aid frequencies. I use my FT-60s banks for those MTZs so I can scan the involved memories in a fire or other emergency.?
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I have a bank for every place I plan to sleep on my travels.
Banks are a logical collection of memories, in other words, a group of memories that have something in common, sometimes beyond just being for the same agency or group. For example, say that you live in an area prone to wildfires. A bank could contain memories for city, county and state fire, law, National Forest, EMS, even Red Cross, etc. In California, we have "MTZs" or Mutual Threat Zones, areas that have adjoining jurisdictions. Those MTZs have pre-defined communications plans using frequencies from the involved agencies as well as Federal mutual aid frequencies. I use my FT-60s banks for those MTZs so I can scan the involved memories in a fire or other emergency.?
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On 8/6/2024 12:34 PM, Dan Tomlinson wrote: a group of memories that have something in common, sometimes beyond just being for the same agency or group I generally set up a bank for repeaters in a particular county, except for the first couple of banks (which are set up with a bank for the 'TAC' channels for local ARES group (so the TAC number and the channel number are the same), and one bank for simplex) and the last bank with a collection of county repeaters where there's not that many repeaters per county. Ben -- Ben Coleman nj8j@... Radiating from Bedsprings Brigade Manor
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Greg Liverman
KN6ZVI <<Al McManus>>
Dan Tomlinson
Joel Myers W4JNM
Ben Coleman NJ8J