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I inadvertently sent one to the wrong repeater owner, and I'd like to delete it, but I don't see an obvious way. Thanks! ...R

I was asking what it does to the RT76P.

The "3rd party" version of the RT76P program will allow: - wideband on GMRS channels - programming any [doable] frequency in any channel (so you can put the same GMRS repeater channel in 8 different channels on the radio with, e.g., different PLs, and you can program Part 90 stuff RX-only). While the program indicates 128 channels, the radio only takes 30 (according to both my experimentation and Retevis). Similarly, the "3rd party" software offers options like "Encryption" (which I'm guessing is voice-inversion scrambling), but I couldn't make it work in my radios. Still no idea what "root" does to these radios, or how to enable it. ...R

Did anybody ever figure out (1) what "root" is or (2) how to get it working? I tried it, but the updater timed out waiting for a handshake from the radio. My guess is there's a sequence on the radio (e.g., a keyboard+power on sequence) that puts the radio in a mode that lets it be "rooted", whatever that does for you. A couple observations: - If reading from the radio doesn't work for you but everything else does, try running the RT76P program as Administrator; that fixed my reading problem. - If anyone comes up with a way to change the frequencies in a memory channel, that would be awesome. Without it, you can't, for example, put two GMRS repeaters on the same frequency but with different tones into memories [i live in a town with 7 million people; we have lots of GMRS repeaters], and you can't put a receive-only non-GMRS frequency in a memory. Both of those features are legal and would be very nice.