HTX-212
Ed Ingraham
144.600? So how am I to use a 145.19/144.59 repeater
with it?
Ed Ingraham, WX4S
Pat McGaughey
repeater with my HTX 212 by enabling the MARS/CAP
mods as described in the owners manual. Then you need
to set the repeater offset manually as described
elsewhere in the manual.
By the way, the HTX-212 seems to work pretty well.
My main complaints include :
1. Poor return spring on the microphone.
I had to add some more adhesive backed foam
to reliably key-off.
2. No obvious way to store non-amateur frequencies
in the memories other than the VFO's. I've been
told by a Radio Shack technical rep. that there
are no mod's possible. I hope that one of you will
prove them wrong. We need this for search and
rescue work.
Pat McGaughey, KC5MHS and previously WB0DCB.
Ken Harrison
> Anyone noticed that the HTX-212 won't transmit below
> with it?
>
> Ed Ingraham, WX4S
Isn't that lame, ed? You'd think that a radio "designed by hams for hams",
as I've seen written, would be capable of using the entire 2 meter band right
out of the box. OK. So maybe you don't really need 144.0 - 144.1 on a
FM radio... But still!
You have to do the keyboard mod to "open it up" for MARS/CAP. Funny that one
should have to "modify" his radio in order to use it in the band it was
"designed" for...
I don't have the info for you, but I believe it is in the manual...
73,
Ken
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Ken Harrison --- harr...@vax.sonoma.edu --- Amateur Radio: N6MHG
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J. Duffy Beischel
Harrison) writes:
>
>In article <1995Jul12.2...@tijc02.uucp>, eri...@tijc02.uucp
(Ed Ingraham ) writes:
>> Anyone noticed that the HTX-212 won't transmit below
>> 144.600? So how am I to use a 145.19/144.59 repeater
>> with it?
>>
>> Ed Ingraham, WX4S
>
>Isn't that lame, ed? You'd think that a radio "designed by hams for
hams",
>as I've seen written, would be capable of using the entire 2 meter
band right
>out of the box. OK. So maybe you don't really need 144.0 - 144.1 on
a
>FM radio... But still!
>
>You have to do the keyboard mod to "open it up" for MARS/CAP. Funny
that one
>should have to "modify" his radio in order to use it in the band it
was
>"designed" for...
>
>I don't have the info for you, but I believe it is in the manual...
>
>73,
>Ken
Designed by hams for hams? I know that this is their marketing slogan,
but I kind of agree with the above post. I think a real ham would have
designed the rig to transmit on the entire two meter band.
Just another leading edge product from Radio Shark!
Regards,
Duffy - WB8NUT
Mike Beckers
EI > Anyone noticed that the HTX-212 won't transmit below
EI > 144.600? So how am I to use a 145.19/144.59 repeater
EI > with it?
I might be pressed to ask how I would use a popular frequency
where I am, too! There's a group of us that use 144.460 simplex as
our main frequency. I guess that means that this radio is useless
for me!
=Mike=
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John LaMartina
: Anyone noticed that the HTX-212 won't transmit below
: 144.600? So how am I to use a 145.19/144.59 repeater
: with it?
: Ed Ingraham, WX4S
Steve Greenberg
>
> Anyone noticed that the HTX-212 won't transmit below
> 144.600? So how am I to use a 145.19/144.59 repeater
> with it?
>
> Ed Ingraham, WX4S
I am not sure why your 212 will not xmt below 144.600. Mine xmts all the
way down to 144.000, as it should.
73s. Steve WA6TAF
shamrock
>
>Ed Ingraham (eri...@tijc02.uucp) wrote:
>: Anyone noticed that the HTX-212 won't transmit below
>: 144.600? So how am I to use a 145.19/144.59 repeater
>: with it?
>
>: Ed Ingraham, WX4S
>
and follow the instructions.
TURN OFF RADIO
then WHILE DEPRESSING F and DTMF buttons
Power up radio.
you have just expanded range 143.00-149.00 Xmit