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Receive PL’s are a great thing.

That would be the Kingston 600 repeater. That person is usually broadcasting what is said on the police scanner during various situations.

Well programming a nxdn radio is fairly straightforward. The things you need to do program your ran (nxdn version of NAC) and talkgroups into the radio. One of the big things that kenwood's do is aliasing and newer icom's do that also. Aliasing is where the radio will transmit the radio alias instead of just the unit id number. If you plan on getting the radio onto the NXDN network you'll need to get a id assigned from radioid.net. As for settings for simplex and repeater ops. Just go into the NXDN setting page and program your id and talkgroups there. The NXDN network has a similar layout to DMR and P25NX systems. One useful source is http://www.nxdninfo.com/ they have a lot information on set up of radios. I own a bunch of kenwood and icom nxdn capable radios and I run a department where we maintain about a thousand radios system wide. There's really nothing scary in programming an nxdn radio.

I own a NXDN 2 meter repeater in Newton Massachusetts and I’m involved in a few others in New England.

I’m guilty of doing this set on my radios. It’s something we’ve done on the commercial two way side of the world and I’ve implemented it on my gear. Another thing I’ve done is using non standard DPL’s and PL’s on my radios. It’s not perfect but when you want a little extra protection it’s not a bad idea. The caveat is that your radios should of similar capability.

I don’t know the owner of the New Bedford 700 repeater, but I’m very good friends with the owner of the Plymouth 700 and Bridgewater 650. The plymouth 700 covers into the waterfront of New Bedford very well.

The New Bedford is on the frequency as the Plymouth 700 (PAWA) GMRS machine which is quite active during the day. The Plymouth one covers a good chunk of the cape and south eastern mass. There’s also the Kingston 600 and the Bridgewater 650 which also covers fairly well.