"Per Personality" vs "Per Channel"

[NSPD]

I'm messing with a VHF GP380 codeplug in the GP-Series CPS, and I notice that there are "Per Personality" and "Per Channel" screensin the CPS. You can apparently assign up to 64 channels to a "Personality". Is a personality in this case the same as a Zone? I'm told that these radios don't do zones, but this looks like it may work.

Thanks!

[mikegilbert]

A personality simply tells each "channel" how to behave. Scan list, signalling and other non-frequency/pl/dpl information.

Say I want all 14 FRS channels to share the same scanlist, mute/unmute rules and have the same 5-tone ZVEI (GP380) signalling. Instead of specifying that on a channel level, I tell the radio to reference a single personality.

So Channels 1-14 look at Personality "X" for their behavior. It saves time in the long run if you've got multiple similar channels. In my Astro Radios, I would have one personallity for FRS analog and one for Digital. So with 2 personalities I can tell 28 channels how to behave.

Hope that helps.

-Mike

[NSPD]

Thanks Mike, I figured it was good good to be true.

[zaurgly]

So there simply are no zones in the GP380? All 255 channels in one big bank/zone?

[rrfd43]

Yep, continuous rotary on the top. It is kind of a pain, but the personality thing is pretty neat once you figure it out.

[NSPD]

So there simply are no zones in the GP380? All 255 channels in one big bank/zone?

Yes, but pressing a channel number on the keypad followed by the check key takes you directly to any channel.