Thanks for the memories

I mentioned before about the luck I had in having found a serial cable with a 2.5mm connector on it where all the main pins matched with the requirement for the VX8-GR. I made up a bodge adapter to go between a serial to usb adapter using an unused connector and shorted out pins 7 and 8.

To my surprise the bodge worked first time and I was able to connect to the handheld using g4hfq's memory management software which I purchased (with and its enormously long registration key!). the next wrestle was with importing a csv file that I built up using a few resources. As is the way nowadays almost everything you need is somewhere on the internet so I managhed to get the 2m & 70cm repeater information from UK repeaters. Some satellite frequencies from various places and the prestwick airport tower and approach from somewhere else. the latter is for when I'm up at the inlaws and I need to entertain my youngest with the aircraft. It helps to have an idea when things are coming from the rig.

I got a bit carried away and tried to match up my own shortened list with the import utility. This threw up a load of errors and half an hour was wasted trying to fix them. I plumped for a look in the help file and filled in a template in excel with the data.

having not used memories that much I'm sure it'll change buy I've set the banks up as

Bank 1 - Favourites, including repeaters I use either on the M74, M6 and M5. A couple of satellite ones and the airband ones

Bank 2 - 2m simplex channels

Bank 3 - Full list of 2m repeaters apart from the ones I'll never use (high;ands and islands etc)

Bank 4 - 70cm Simplex. Not something I have ever had cause to use but you never know

Bank 5/6 - 70cm Repeaters (only 100 allowed in banks)

Here's my Frequency List. I'm sure it can be adapted to pretty much all the memory management software that takes in csv's. It may also throw up a few errors but seems to work (mainly)

I'll see how I get on with it and if I actually use it!