I am pretty sure that Canadian FRS radio specs match US's however because you're breaking Canadian law and I live in the U.S. it "all of a sudden" doesn't really matter anymore. How is Heterodyne breaking the law? I agree with him, he never once said that he was doing it. And even if he w...

Thanks to someone who e-mailed me off-list, I've solved the problem.

I brought my entire set-up to a technician friend of mine who is using the HT600A (as opposed to the regular HT600 software I'm using). It worked like a charm.

Thanks to all who helped!

Hiya Monty et al.. Took the radio apart and checked everything that you told me to (and other tips in some searches on Batlabs). The universal connector pins checked out good connection-wise, as well as all grounds. I worked an eraser down to the nub on the top - the contacts on the connector could ...

Thank you for the tips, Monty.. I am using a 486DX laptop - could the speed of my computer be too fast for this flavour of radio? (never really had the honor to program one of these before.. first time..) Could that be an issue? The contacts are nice and shiny, there are no cracks and the speaker mi...

Trying to read a VHF HT600 in RSS... all attempts to read the radio (or do a port check) results in SERIAL BUS ERROR 011 or SERIAL CHECK FAILED! CHECK SETUP. The setup works fine, it reads and writes my other Genesis radios perfectly. Had the radio programmed a few years ago at another radio shop an...

r0f wrote:. You sound like a major geek

Yeah, just in case that photo in his avatar got didn't convince you otherwise (grin)

You're ambition is bordering on cockyness, my friend. Your business ambitions should go beyond "gotta crush and undercut the other guys". Finish college, take business courses and learn the lay of the land. If you want to be a moron and leave college before you finish it and learn a thing ...

cranbiz wrote:My programming setup is about the same as Rescue 161, with a Pentium 120 laptop running DOS 6.22. I use the RIB from 2wayprogramming

Ed's RIBs are great, but his programming cables give me the heeby geebies ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1392446813 )