Ok, I feel stupid now (ok, more so than I usually do). I momentarily got the channel ports confused with CHPID numbers. I'm not anywhere near the 256 CHPID limit so I've got plenty of those to choose from. Case closed and thank you gentlemen for jogging my memory. :o)
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