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Systems Saber 3 VHF Channel Programming
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:30 am
by Fireman26
I have a systems saber 3 vhf, it has 16 channels in 16 zones or 255 channels and I can only program 8 of those channels in any zone while in conventional, Does any one have any Idea how to add the other 8 channes in! I would alos like to know if you can go down to 145 Mhz thru 157 Mhz the radio worksd fine from 146-174
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks to all!
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:55 am
by akardam
Try using page up/page down to view each section of each zone sequentially, instead of F3/F4 to page through the zones. Each zone has two pages. Page 1 is channels 1-8, page 2 is channels 9-16.
My VHF SysSaber went down to 144 with no problem.
Extra Channels
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:28 pm
by Fireman26
hank you for your help thats did the trick
Now how would i go about enabling the dtmf key pad to access my local ham repeater
Thanks
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:09 am
by RKG
To use the DTMF keys to send DTMF over the air, you have to program the channel in question as phone capable, then follow the other options for live dialing.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:21 am
by akardam
The Systems Sabers are kind of funny with DTMF from the keypad.
First off, on the Zone screen, you'll see a column labelled "Phone revert channel". Normally it all defaults to 1. So if you're on any channel at all and you start banging out DTMF, it will transmit it on channel 1 in the Phone revert channel list (whatever that happens to be). Dumb, I know, but that's how it works.
So, for every channel you want to have live dialing on, you have to add that channel to the Phone revert list, and then in the Zone screen, choose that phone revert channel from the list.
Once you've got that setup, you have to press the "0" key on the keypad to enable the DTMF pad, and then dial away to your hearts content.
Hope this helps.
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:04 am
by AEC
You can also avoid the phone revert channel by highlighting that area and setting it for NO REVERT, that will keep PHONE access available for all channels set in this manner.
I hate phone revert...it's a horrible setup the way the RSS assigns it, should be defaulted to NO REVERT and then made as a choice, not preconfigured.
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:47 am
by akardam
If there's a way to set it for no revert, I've never been able to find it out... how exactly do you do it?
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:10 pm
by AEC
When I access the screen for signalling, I set emergency revert to NO REVERT.
After carefully examining the phone revert listing.....there is no way to avoid this, you are stuck with 1-10 selections, which Circle-M decided was the best way, which it obviously is NOT!
To preassign only 10 channels where phone can be used if using 'revert', is lunacy.
Live dialing should always be left solely to the radio operator and not the radio.
Since I have no use for the phone option, save for DTMF control functions, and even then, I hardly use it.
Too bad I boneheaded and assumed emergency options for revert instead of phone....my bad!