Hi Jed,
I've got signals flying everywhere with a gazillion different models
of the Kenwood ham and commercial "LMR" radios. (also a lot of other
radio brands doing link radio duty).
Older Kenwood radios have a drop in accessory cable (under $15 to
$20 typical) that brings most all of the in
VCO War Stories...? anyway...
Until I replaced my vehicle Kenwood TK-880 & TK-780 radio stack
last year with the current TK-8180 and TK-7180 radio... I ran
my un-modified TK-880 into the 440-450 Amatuer Band.
But not all the way... the receiver sens fell off some and the vco
didn't like g
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Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Kenwood commercial radios as link radios
Hi Jed,
I've got signals flying everywhere with a gazillion different models
of the Kenwo
Mike Mullarkey wrote:
> They will work but the Motorola SM-50 radio works much better and you don't
> have to modify the VCO.
What Kenwood radios do you need to modify the VCO on to get them to work
on the ham bands? Every Kenwood commercial rig I've played with since
the 705/805 series has gone
I am aware and have some that tune to the 420-470 band. And those radios are
the TK-8180K2 radios. The other radios i am talking about are the TK-880K
radios. You will need to modify the VCO if you want them to perform below
440mhz. I would prefer to use the Kenwood but the time it takes to modi
Hi Skip,
Sounds like you have expermented like i have been doing for sometime. The
780/880 radios work great in the 440 band however in the 430 not without moding
them. The SM50 radios work great at the bigest site in Oregon and lets say the
1000ft tower is definatly loaded. The trick is to enc
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