<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Unless you are worrying about how long your battery lasts, just keep it on high power. When the FCC says don't use anymore power than is necessary, I don't think they care about 1 watt vs 5 watts as much as they care about 100 watts vs 1500. You are not going to get a ticket that says you used 5 watts when 0.83 watts would have worked.<br><br><div>Jardy Dawson</div><div>WA7JRD Ham Radio</div><div><br></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Message relayed from secret Hillary Clinton server, located in the basement of her house. OOPS, you aren't supposed to know that!</span></div><div><br>On Feb 8, 2017, at 14:17, Trevor Holyoak <<a href="mailto:trevor@holyoak.com">trevor@holyoak.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span>The BF-888S radios only have something like 16 channels, so that </span><br><span>technique may not be as useful.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 2/8/2017 2:49 PM, r norris via chirp_users wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Since I never see myself using 128 or however many memories these radio have, if I want different power or tone settings,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I just put the same frequency in multiple memories, with different settings.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ch 6 - 146.52 high power</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ch 7 - 146.52 low power</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ch 8 - 146.52 high power - tone on.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Keep the same sequence for each frequency.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Lot easier to change channels than remembering menu buttons.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Same with scanning. If there is a channel that’s important, put it in the list every six or eight slots.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The priority function on my UV2501 makes a “click” in the speaker, every time it is checking the channel.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>chirp_users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a></span><br><span>This message was sent to Jardy at <a href="mailto:jardy72@yahoo.com">jardy72@yahoo.com</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span></div></body></html>