AboutChris Bushman Expertise I have been an amateur radio operator for about 36 years.
Experience In real life I manage a small motion picture film lab in Hollywood. I've been a fireman, a teacher of English in Okinawa, a personal computer tutor.
I am an Advanced Class Ham radio operator using my originally issued callsign WB6EEQ. I have operated for extended periods of time from Okinawa (KR6FX & KR6OP), Texas (K5VXG), and Mississippi (K5TYP).
While in the Air Force, I was a Manual Morse Radio Intercept Operator.
BS Zoology, UC Davis
Member, Society of Motion Picture/Television Engineers http://www.smpte.org/ - Member, American Radio Relay League http://www.arrl.org/ - Member, Quarter Century Wireless Assn. http://www.lockport-ny.com/radio.htm - President, Zen Nippon Airinkai, So Cal Chapter http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Chris_Bushman/ - Member, Maltose Falcons Homebrewing Society http://www.westval.com/mfalcons/ - Alumni, American Brewers' Guild http://www.abgbrew.com/
Question I have just purchased a new Icom IC-V82 the new 7watt radio they have come out with. I am having a problem programming it. I can get the receive frequencies programmed into it but have no clue how to get the transmitt programmed. Almost all of the frequencies I have programmed have a repeater but I can't seem to get it to hit the repeater. It just transmits on the recieve frequency that I have entered. Do you know anything about these radios....can you help me please?
Answer You don't actually set the transmit freq, you set an offset from the receive freq. You tell the radio that you want to run duplex "dup" and you tell it what the offset is and you tell it whether that offset is up (+) or down (-).
