Batboard

Was wondering what I can have as a side button choice, what are some global things that can be changed (global options...?), and what I can assign to the A-B-C switch...I know this is very general, but I'm just trying to see what my options are, so I can pass it on to my programmer. This is a D revision, by the way.

Thanks!

~Ted

The Ht1000 Was Talked About Lots Here.

Your Programmer Will Tell You What Are The
Options On The Help Menu On The RSS Menu.

When We Program The HT1000 We Tell The User
What We Have And They Get It Programmed.
Most Of The Time It Gets Changed Two Or
Three Times When They Learn More About The
Options.

How about this:

What do you want to use the radio for? What do you want to accomplish? and we'll tell you what features the radio has to do what you'd like

That would probably be the easiest way...

-Alex

Public Safety usage. Local SO, this'll be a deputies take-home radio...he's also a ham. I already have the frequencies set up, the weird NOAA thing, the 162.xx on Channel 16, carrier squelch, 162.xx on Channel 15, QC-II of 1050 (1047?), unmute to AND. Man down button (orange on top).
Here's what I have
Side Buttons (from nearest to PTT) -
1: Monitor
2: Nuiscence Channel Delete
3:

A - Scan 1-15, Low Power (1W) Under scan options, change it to unmute AND. (So that it's QC-II that unmutes the speaker...)
B - Same as A but Non-Scan, High Power (5W)
C - Same as A, but High Power (5W)

Channel Select Priority
MDC-1200 Signalling, xxxx (his number), Revert to Channel One. (Orange button on top).

What else would be useful to define, before sending this off to the programmer? Thanks!

Here's how I suggest programming the portable based the ones i've used the most:

A - Scan
B - will monitor channel that the channel selector is on
C - Program scan list

Side buttons nusance delete, monitor... I suggest talkaround if the radio is being used on a lot of repeaters - can be quite useful.

Scan list should be setup to not use talkback scan (this is where if the radio lands on a channel other than the selected one if you press PTT, you talk on that channel, not on the selected one.) This is an OK feature - as long as your aware of it's existance in the radio, and have some way of being SURE your going to end up talking on that channel. Otherwise, let the transmit be steered by the channel knob ONLY.

Another programming thing you can do is make the channel knob selection priority. This means the priority channel will be whatever is selected. Another nice feature is chanel marking - when you turn the knob the last channel which had activity will cause the radio to beep when selected. Takes the guess work out of which one you just heard.

That's what I can think of for useful channels. if the radio is going to be used as a duty radio, seriously consider simply having on of the radios cloned, and then ONLY changing the channels in the radio that are blank, and are not used. This way if another officer picks the radio up off his belt to use it or something like that --- it's all the same.

I've had people grab my portable before and start yapping away on some channel about something, which of course, wasn't the desired channel in the first place.

Just some things to keep in mind.

-Alex

Very cool, thanks. Explain Program Scan List would you? That's not one of the features I'm framiliar with...that and talkaround, does that just make the rx the same as the tx, and pulls the pl? That'd be sorta cool...

Thanks again, Batboard pulls through!

Programable scan list allows the operator to select what channels they have programmed into the radio to listen to while scanning.

IN the case of my example:

Put radio into "C" Radio usually beeps. as you rotate the knob, the light at the top of the radio will flash based on what channels you have in there or not. Hitting the select button (usually programmed as the blue button - you must have one of those buttons be select (you reminded me of that... thanks...). Pressing the button turns light off, channel is out of the scan list... light on, channel is in the scan list.

Priority means that your audio will be "choppy" while the reciever is scanning over to another frequency to check for activity. If the radio finds all the conditions of the channel to be OK - it will beep (if programmed to do so) and give you the audio from that channel, no matter what channel you were listening to before.) You can only have 1 of these in an HT1000 - the higher tier radios allow you to have more.

Talkaround allows you to use the output of the repeater frequency (or anyone that you program in) and allows you to talk to one person directly and not be heard by the rest of the folks on the repeater. Essentially it bypasses it. Useful, but I would check with someone in the know about what to use for it, and how.

-Alex

Wouldn't Nuiscence Channel Delete work the same way, you just go through and delete the ones you want to, and it stays there until you power cycle? If so, what else could I put as an A-B-C switch choice...Scan List isn't so important...

nope... it only will remove 1 channel at 1 time.

Trust me - this is a feature you want to have.

-Alex

Cool, then talkaround goes away....or nuiscence channel delete?

We generally program HT1000s this way:

A = Repeat with Scan.
B = Repeat w/o Scan.
C = Direct.

This enables the user to flip between repeat and direct by feel, without having to look at the radio or remove it from the holster.

Top (green) side button: nuisance delete.
Middle (black) side button: unprogrammed.
Botton (black) side button: monitor (quiet monitor).

Note that nuisance delete is not limited to one deleted channel at a time; it will delete all in the scan list save priority channels and the selected channel. However, the deletions will be restored on: (a) power down/power up, (b) scan off/scan on; or (c) channel change while in scan mode.

The scan lists in the PD radios have <SelChan> as priority 1 and all other channels as non-priority. The scan list is limited to Dispatch and the regional channel (BAPERN 3). In the FD portables, <SelChan> is Priority 1 and F1 (Home Dispatch) is Priority 2. The scan list is limited to <SelChan>, F1 and two mutual aid channels. Unlike the PD portables, the FD portables have a couple of neighboring towns dispatch channels programmed, but having F1 as Priority 2 pretty much guarantees that they guys won't miss a home broadcast.

In all cases, if the selector is turned to a channel that is not in the scan list, it will be temporarily added as Priority 1.

I have found that Scan List Program in HT1000s, which can be invoked only through the A-B-C switch, leads to trouble. If Scan List Program is inadvertantly invoked, the radio is dead to incoming traffic. These are working radios, not playing radios, and the guys have no need of changing the scan list, anyhow. Note that in HT1000s, MT2000s and MTS2000s, if the scan list program function is available, then the green side button function changes to select/unselect while in that mode.

How do you have two priorities though? Are you using a higher tier'd radio than the ht1k?

And you say nusiance delete does do more than one channel...except the one priority and the currently selected, then how do you delete it, do you have to wait for a channel to have activity, then hit the delete button?

And by direct, you mean talkaround enabled...rx becomes tx as well, for bypassing the repeater?

Yes, you push the nusiance delete button upon hearing something on a channel you don't want to hear. it does nothing if the radio isn't recieving anything.

Direct and Talk-Around mean the same thing. "Direct" is the term you will see in the programming menus.