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I may be incorrectly assuming that this is in response to the kerfluffle that occured previously in the post. I would like to say that I'm very sorry. I suppose I should keep in mind that not everyone appreciates or understands my humor. It was honestly an attempt at a joke, and while I will admit, I was definitely being snarky, I truly didn't intend to ruffle anyone's feathers. I should have been more respectful and appreciative of Steve7010's advice, and I should not have been such a smarta$$. So when he suggested I was being rude, I didn't respond very well to that either. I think everyone is "chilled out" now, and Pastor Gary was kind enough to step in and get us back to the discussion. This occurred over a week ago, so I'm not sure why it's being revived here now, but I thought I would at least make an attempt to apologize here now, so that we can continue with the discussion and solve the mystery of programming the M1225.

Well, I wasn't really grumping at you... but I have a (excuse the expression) hair trigger on gun issues. (To be clear, I am most definitely not a member of the NRA).

I would imagine Fort Lauderdale gets slammed with the same stuff we get here. The problem here was affecting another person's repeater - we are not on .550. But they were completely unaware of it. With internet access at the site its relatively easy to monitor out input. Greg

Got the M1225 programmed and working. I can see why they're popular! It is programmed with 19 channels and talkaround.

That is a very nice looking radio!

You'll have to find a copy of Motorola RSS for M1225 (not terribly hard to do) but that's definitely not the hard part. RSS doesn't run on modern hardware; for the MT2000 I used Win95's DOS mode on a Pentium without issues. I'm not sure how the M1225 software runs on later computers. Virtualization may be an option but RSS needs Microsoft DOS to work. A 16550-based serial port is highly preferred, I don't know how well the USB ones work; computers of the right vintage for RSS usually have onboard 16550 serial. You can find a CDM1250 or CDM1550 for around the same price -- they're newer, have displays, will cover both GMRS and 70cm, and a larger channel capacity.

They didn't stay on too long, but it was obvious that they were not licensed or understood radio etiquette. I set my Midland MXT400 to "scan" so it covers all the channels, that's how I ended up finding them. Really liking this 400.