Best gmrs handheld radio?

[Lscott]

4 hours ago, wayoverthere said:

spend awhile working on the code plug...program disappears and loses all the work I've done.

That's when one learns their lesson to save their work every 5 minutes. It sucks when you spend hours building a big code plug just to have it go POOF in the blink of an eye.

[tweiss3]

Spreadsheets are one's friend when building large codeplugs. I also save every revision as a new file, with SN, version # and date as the file name. 

[Lscott]

Oh, I also save ALL my prior code plug versions for a particular radio series by model type and date.

Example:

NX-1300DUK5_BAS15_ARC4__20241118.dat

If I totally bugger up the code plug I at least have the prior one saved I can use to recover from. Normally there are only minor changes from the previous version.

[wayoverthere]

59 minutes ago, Lscott said:

That's when one learns their lesson to save their work every 5 minutes. It sucks when you spend hours building a big code plug just to have it go POOF in the blink of an eye.

Yeah, lesson learned The instability is new to me, and makes RT Systems' software tempting when it shows up.

56 minutes ago, tweiss3 said:

Spreadsheets are one's friend when building large codeplugs. I also save every revision as a new file, with SN, version # and date as the file name. 

 

54 minutes ago, Lscott said:

Oh, I also save ALL my prior code plug versions for a particular radio series by model type and date.

Example:

NX-1300DUK5_BAS15_ARC4__20241118.dat

If I totally bugger up the code plug I at least have the prior one saved I can use to recover from. Normally there are only minor changes from the previous version.

I do the multiple versions as as well, radio model and date, and save new versions as i go.  I do also save base code plugs before i start editing for the first time.

I was working from the latest codeplug for the vx7r, and just skipping the 6m items, but in the end went the spreadsheet route; exported it all as a CSV, and installed Open Office on that computer so i can open it.

[SteveShannon]

4 minutes ago, wayoverthere said:

Yeah, lesson learned The instability is new to me, and makes RT Systems' software tempting when it shows up.

 

I do the multiple versions as as well, radio model and date, and save new versions as i go.  I do also save base code plugs before i start editing for the first time.

I was working from the latest codeplug for the vx7r, and just skipping the 6m items, but in the end went the spreadsheet route; exported it all as a CSV, and installed Open Office on that computer so i can open it.

Two features I wish RT Systems would implement are automatic saves and automatic versioning. 

[WRUU653]

On 1/19/2025 at 10:01 AM, RIPPER238 said:

Does your 935H output 8 watts on GMRS? 

Results posted here.