I spent a little time this afternoon sitting int eh cockpit with external power on the airplane, playing around with the new A-210 I installed a couple weeks ago. I have been very happy with the unit so far - it receives better an stronger than the A-200 it replaced (in the same rack!), even though the the A-200 was doing just fine! Same antenna seems to give me almost twice the range with the new radio.
My goal this afternoon was to do some programming of the 200 memory slots (actually, more like 220 - it has one memory group for the last 10 frequencies used, another 10 for basic memory, and then 20 groups of 10 for "whatever"). Based on nothing but whimsy, I decided to use one of the groups for all of the common CTAF frequencies, another for all of the local AWOS'es, and then I figured that I'd use the rest of the groups for tower controlled airports that I frequent - title the group with the identifier of the field, then put that field's ATIS, TWR, GND, CD, etc. in the group. This is going to leave a LOT of blank memory spaces (at least half f them), but frankly, I couldn't think of much other use for them. Perhaps others will share their organizational plans.
(I think it was Larry Pardue that said that his radio basically has a 760 channel memory, and frankly, I'm beginning to see it his way...it sure does take a lot of time to sit in the cockpit and put these things in, as often as they are going to get used in a #2 COmm...especially when my #1 is a 430 with an up to date database!)
Still love the unit thought - very nice, readable display, the dual frequency monitoring is really great (the main reason I wanted it), and it fits the panel nicely.
Paul
My goal this afternoon was to do some programming of the 200 memory slots (actually, more like 220 - it has one memory group for the last 10 frequencies used, another 10 for basic memory, and then 20 groups of 10 for "whatever"). Based on nothing but whimsy, I decided to use one of the groups for all of the common CTAF frequencies, another for all of the local AWOS'es, and then I figured that I'd use the rest of the groups for tower controlled airports that I frequent - title the group with the identifier of the field, then put that field's ATIS, TWR, GND, CD, etc. in the group. This is going to leave a LOT of blank memory spaces (at least half f them), but frankly, I couldn't think of much other use for them. Perhaps others will share their organizational plans.
(I think it was Larry Pardue that said that his radio basically has a 760 channel memory, and frankly, I'm beginning to see it his way...it sure does take a lot of time to sit in the cockpit and put these things in, as often as they are going to get used in a #2 COmm...especially when my #1 is a 430 with an up to date database!)
Still love the unit thought - very nice, readable display, the dual frequency monitoring is really great (the main reason I wanted it), and it fits the panel nicely.
Paul
