![]() ![]() This is being talked about even more now because another mountain search and rescue unit in the neighboring county has just switched over to NX radios. We are seriously considering Kenwoods now so we can do our own programming. We had to go into the mountains and rescue a stranded snowmobiler this weekend who spent 24 hours stuck in a bowl full of powder he couldn't get out of and the TK-8180 performed flawlessly in maintaining comms with the county dispatch office until I arrived on scene to take the role of SAR Command at the incident where we use Motorola CDM 1250s. The only difference besides the band is that I couldn't find the 30w version in the condition that I wanted so I had to spend the premium to get the 50w version. I was wondering if there was an alternative to Chirp and RT-Systems programming software f. I like the radio so much that I decided to also order the VHF 7170 as well for our VHF repeaters in the area and it is literally the twin of the 8180. I have been using Chirp to try to program my Baofeng UV-5R but have been having one problem after another. I have gotten the Kenwood software and I've programmed the UHF radio with all of our emergency frequencies and frequency pairs. After purchasing a RT Systems cable and software kit everything worked great It took more time for my computer to start up than it did to get the software and cable to work. I suppose that since I'm still getting recommendations I should update the thread. I spent countless hours trying to program my Baofeng radio with their software and USB cable with no success. ![]()
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