Dear Mr. Klein & Mr. Williams:
Useful ideas. I do not have the time to "play" with the programming
program at the moment, but it is wise to download same. It is reasonable to
believe, from reading the radio's manual, that programming will be
reasonably straight forward. I do not have to unlearn anything.
I have a charger for two batteries. Excellent idea to acquire a charger
capable of dealing with three batteries.

The APCO site suggests that our local Michigan digital system may not be
converted (by shifting everything down 15 MHz) for some time as we are on
the Canadian side of Line A.

Thanks for your assistance. The box with radio has arrived and awaits
Christmas. Regards, Mac

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J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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"Bo Williams" wrote in message
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Al Klein wrote:

Find a charger that will charge 3 AA batteries at a time; that's one
of their oversights - most chargers handle 2 or 4.

I highly recommend Thomas Distributing

http://www.thomas-distributing.com/

for rechargeable batteries and chargers. I've done several thousand
dollars of business with them and have never been less than 100%
pleased. There are a few Maha chargers that will charge three batteries
independently. The Ansmann Energy 8 and 16 are also good pieces. The
LaCrosse BC-900 is also a fine piece.

No connection other than being a thoroughly satisfied customer.

[...]
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Bo Williams -
http://hiwaay.net/~williams/

I did get a BCD396T more-or-less working on the Genesee County digital
system. Many stations have chopped audio. Not favorably impressed.
Supposedly, the Genesee County Simulcast system has two control
channels. Should the radio be set to use both? The radio seems to respond
when listening to only 868.8875 (with some stations having chopped audio) as
a data channel. The manual is not clear.

Regards, Mac

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J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in message
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Dear Mr. Klein & Mr. Williams:
Useful ideas. I do not have the time to "play" with the programming
program at the moment, but it is wise to download same. It is reasonable
to
believe, from reading the radio's manual, that programming will be
reasonably straight forward. I do not have to unlearn anything.
I have a charger for two batteries. Excellent idea to acquire a
charger
capable of dealing with three batteries.

The APCO site suggests that our local Michigan digital system may not
be
converted (by shifting everything down 15 MHz) for some time as we are on
the Canadian side of Line A.

Thanks for your assistance. The box with radio has arrived and awaits
Christmas. Regards, Mac

--
J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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