Your Radio "Memory Band Plan"

[ke7vvt]

I looked around a little in the forums for something like this, if this is a duplicate thread please delete it. This is what I am planning on doing the VX-8R. Check it out, tell everyone what your "Memory Band Plan" is, you might have a good idea that others might like to know about. I am curious what your set up is, what you would recommend, and what you might do differently if you had to reprogram them in again. Keep it clear and concise.

I chose to set things up this way so other repeaters could be added next to similar band repeaters later. On the 8r, until a memory space is populated, it doesn't show up in the list. So if there are memories in 1-5 and 100-107, cycling through memories will only show 1-5, 100-107 and not those empty (6-99) ones in between. I think I'll put in about 100 memories.

Memory Space
Begin End Where What
1 99 Natl APRS, Natl Simplex, HARBOR Simplex
100 199 Natl FRS/GMRS Frequencies
2 m Repeaters
200 249 OGDEN
250 299 SLC
300 349 VERNAL
350 399 LOGAN
440Hz Repeaters
400 449 OGDEN
450 499 SLC
500 549 VERNAL
550 599 LOGAN
Other TX Freq.
600 699 All UT 6 meter, 50-54 Mhz
700 799 All UT 1.2 meter, 220-225 Mhz
RX only freq.
800 899 Natl CB, Air Band, 33 cm

 

[Moleculo]

Man, I did something similar to that on my Kenwood THF-6a when I had it. Of course, that radio doesn't have near the memories that the newer ones do. The Yaesu VX-8's memories are so flexible that I decided to just program all the 2m/440/220/6m/police/frs/murs frequencies in almost sequentially (although not in that order). With the RT Systems sofware, it's easy enough to insert new frequencies between existing memories, if that's what you need to do. Also the memory linking on the VX8 is pretty flexible making the logical memory banks you described seem like overkill to me.

Bottom line is that I guess only time will tell with this HT if I chose well on the programming side. Every rig is different, so you almost have to go with what works for you on each one.