Hi Richard.

Since I've never used HRD, I cannot answer that part of your question.  I 
do use MCP2000 to program the radio as I find it to be somewhat easier than 
loading memories and setting menus from the front panel of the radio, and 
to that end the direct serial connection serves me well.

At the time that the TS2000S was introduced, it was somewhat unusual to 
connect a radio without some type of interface because most radios weren't 
set up to communicate serial data directly with a computer.  I suspect that 
on some future model, the industry will catch up with the computer industry 
and start using USB ports to do their communication, but we aren't there yet.

Anyway, since HRD works with a bunch of radios, many of which aren't set up 
to connect directly to a computer's serial port without some type of 
interface, I wonder if this is where the confusion is coming in.

Anyway, regarding memories, there is no restriction on how you assign 
memories except for those few memories that have been set up as tunable 
memories.  As has been pointed out earlier, the sub transceiver only 
operates in AM and FM modes, and only covers 2 meters and 70 cm.

The main receiver appears to be somewhat more sensitive than the sub 
receiver, although the sub receiver is certainly adequate for most 
applications.

I tend to keep my most frequently used repeaters in lower channel numbers 
just because they are easier to remember and I've tried to stay consistent 
in memory assignments between my TS2000S memories and the ones in my TMG707 
so that I would know which memory to go to even when I am sitting at a 
different radio.  I stuffed all of the weather frequencies in the 162 to 
169 channel range, so that these frequencies are easy to address.

Basically, you can use whatever memory arrangement makes sense to you--for 
the most part, the radio doesn't care what sequence they go in.  It's just 
a matter of whether you can find the memory quickly when you want it.

Frankly, I don't think I'll ever find enough things to fill up 300 
memories, and that's okay because I couldn't keep track of three hundred 
things anyway.

73, de Lou K2LKK




At 11:45 AM 3/24/2009 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi;
>I just had a few more ts2000 questions.  Feel free to reply off list.
>
>First of all even though there are two receivers, does one get one or =
>two transmitters?
>Secondly, Is the memory set up in such a way that you can put all the =
>uhf/vhf info in one bank and the hf info in another?  I would think that =
>getting hf and vhf frequencies mixed up in the same list might be =
>confusing.
>
>Finally you can apparently connect the radio directly to your pc to set =
>memory etc.  If you use hrd do you need a rig blaster and some type of =
>interphase?  If you can connect it directly to set memory, I'm a bit =
>uncertain why the extra items are needed when using hrd?
>Thanks
>Richard
>
>
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