Hi;
True putting in the offset isn't a real problem but its nice to know that 
you do have to put the direction in manually.  I suspected I had innocently 
changed a setting that was making things more difficult.
Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:22 AM
Subject: ict 90 software


Richard:
the whole point of the software is to be able to personally program the 
radio
easily on the PC.  It is specifically not set up to automatically set the
offset direction because often the software is used to program odd offsets.
For instance, on one of our local repeaters, the frequency is 147.060, but 
it
has a negative offset.  With the radio, the offset direction is 
automatically
posative because it is above 147.000, however, in the software, it allows 
you
to easily set the offset direction without having to reset a menu item.  So,
yes, it does in fact require some amount of brain work and perhaps an extra 
tab
and arrow key press, but you still have to manually set the offset 
direction.
As for the offset frequency, with my software, it is already set to 600 for
anything on 2m and 5 megs for anything on 70CM and 1 meg for anything on 6M.
Not sure why yours isn't doing that.  Perhaps reset all defaults in the
software and it will reappear.  Remember, just because it is software, 
doesn't
mean it takes away all user input or need for intelligent consideration or
operation.

73
Colin, V A6BKX