Yes, I am using it for Ham Radio and I am a FCC Licensed Ham Operator. I would like to set a down link tone to cut out interference we receive in this area from a repeater in Fayetteville , NC on the same frequency .
Downlink tone? You really are a ham. That is a CTCSS on the receive side. In kenwoods case it’s called QT for “quite tone” the encode is your outgoing and you decode is incoming. Your radio won’t open the squelch unless it decodes the correct PL/QT/DPL/DQT/DCS/CTCSS
Hi Kelly, I could do a video on them… what topics would you like covered? The Kenwood radio’s are more for “commercial” use. The Boafeng are more of a “amateur”. I don’t believe you can stun/kill a boafeng radio. The radio is capable of Identifying using DTMF tones but I don’t believe they can decode the DTMF tones so you’d need a separate decoder.
I’m assuming you’re using this for Ham radio. What are you trying to do that you are having problems with? You should be able to plug in some frequencies and maybe a CTCSS of your choice and be good to go.
This software in this video is KPG-49D and will program a Kenwood TK-880. If you are programming a different radio, you would need the correct software for that radio. If I knew the radio I could tell you the correct FPU. The person I use for software that’s out of date is a guy on EBay “ohio_solo_tech” he can find you pretty much anything including old DOS programs and EF Johnson before Kenwood bought them. Hope that helps.
This setup and my kenwood videos are more for radio hobbyist and beginners new to radio. Radio nerd to radio nerd. So in the world of GMRS/FRS, DIGITAL is forbidden. There is a ham operator reading this right now that has already contacted the FCC and youtube just because I used GMRS and digital in the same sentence. With that being said…. I’m not sure if “status messages” work in digital mode. If they don’t, they would have something similar. The “fleetsync” technology was a way to send digital over analog using MSK. A system that is already digital wouldn’t need to use the MSK. This is all in theory because I’ve never had anyone want status messages in digital or analog. Also, in digital you don’t need a fleetsync ID and a ID list. It uses “over the air alias” or OAA. So you program a radio with a “OAA: unit 1” and every radio will display “unit 1” on the screen and there is no need to tell all the other radios about unit 1. Thanks for the question.
I was thinking just the other day how would you go about setting up 2 channels on a poor man’s repeater I know it’s not related to this video but I’d like to learn how that’s done where I work at we have one repeater two repeater channels and two non repeater channels this would be a challenge
Never even thought about that but what might work…build yourself another repeater (one radio for TX and the other for RX). Get yourself a band pass band reject duplexer or combiner (if you’re using the same antenna) and that should be able to discriminate the different frequencies and not wipe out the other side. It’s pretty expensive so for a little more you could just buy a real repeater… if I had to build one, that’s how I’d try.
@@chanceyclark9616 you can add more repeaters and or antennas to a site. You just need a way to filter out the unwanted RF. You’d use a BPBR duplexer (a flat pack/mobile won’t work) and/or a combiner. Those pieces of equipment are pretty expensive and if you’re spending that kind of money on that equipment you usually wouldn’t be making repeaters. If you did go with the expensive stuff and cheap on the radio, as long as the radio itself has decent rejection, it would work. I can warn you that as the 880’s get up there in age, I’ve pulled several 880’s out of service because they can’t resist the hum of an alternator.
Helping me make my radios do things I never knew they could do, brilliant!
Yes, I am using it for Ham Radio and I am a FCC Licensed Ham Operator. I would like to set a down link tone to cut out interference we receive in this area from a repeater in Fayetteville , NC on the same frequency .
Downlink tone? You really are a ham. That is a CTCSS on the receive side. In kenwoods case it’s called QT for “quite tone” the encode is your outgoing and you decode is incoming. Your radio won’t open the squelch unless it decodes the correct PL/QT/DPL/DQT/DCS/CTCSS
@Mark Ryan can you help us STUN those Robo callers? I think we get enough of them! they call here all the time
Thank You
Hey 👋 how did you get into setting up school bus radios? I would love to get into that. 😂😂
Can you please 🙏 make a video of some school bus radio chatter on these radios??? 😊😊😊
Have you ever done any videos like this for the Boafeng uv-5r?
Hi Kelly, I could do a video on them… what topics would you like covered? The Kenwood radio’s are more for “commercial” use. The Boafeng are more of a “amateur”. I don’t believe you can stun/kill a boafeng radio. The radio is capable of Identifying using DTMF tones but I don’t believe they can decode the DTMF tones so you’d need a separate decoder.
I need to program a Kenwood "VHF FM Repeater TKR-750 . Any help would be greatly appreciated .
I’m assuming you’re using this for Ham radio. What are you trying to do that you are having problems with? You should be able to plug in some frequencies and maybe a CTCSS of your choice and be good to go.
Where can I purchase the software you are using ?
What radio are you programming?
This software in this video is KPG-49D and will program a Kenwood TK-880. If you are programming a different radio, you would need the correct software for that radio. If I knew the radio I could tell you the correct FPU. The person I use for software that’s out of date is a guy on EBay “ohio_solo_tech” he can find you pretty much anything including old DOS programs and EF Johnson before Kenwood bought them. Hope that helps.
Would this work on a digital trunked system as well ?
This setup and my kenwood videos are more for radio hobbyist and beginners new to radio. Radio nerd to radio nerd. So in the world of GMRS/FRS, DIGITAL is forbidden. There is a ham operator reading this right now that has already contacted the FCC and youtube just because I used GMRS and digital in the same sentence. With that being said…. I’m not sure if “status messages” work in digital mode. If they don’t, they would have something similar. The “fleetsync” technology was a way to send digital over analog using MSK. A system that is already digital wouldn’t need to use the MSK. This is all in theory because I’ve never had anyone want status messages in digital or analog. Also, in digital you don’t need a fleetsync ID and a ID list. It uses “over the air alias” or OAA. So you program a radio with a “OAA: unit 1” and every radio will display “unit 1” on the screen and there is no need to tell all the other radios about unit 1. Thanks for the question.
I was thinking just the other day how would you go about setting up 2 channels on a poor man’s repeater I know it’s not related to this video but I’d like to learn how that’s done where I work at we have one repeater two repeater channels and two non repeater channels this would be a challenge
Never even thought about that but what might work…build yourself another repeater (one radio for TX and the other for RX). Get yourself a band pass band reject duplexer or combiner (if you’re using the same antenna) and that should be able to discriminate the different frequencies and not wipe out the other side. It’s pretty expensive so for a little more you could just buy a real repeater… if I had to build one, that’s how I’d try.
@@niknazzd I’d have to look at our work repeater but I was thinking they only have one repeater unit…….I was gonna build a second one
@@chanceyclark9616 you can add more repeaters and or antennas to a site. You just need a way to filter out the unwanted RF. You’d use a BPBR duplexer (a flat pack/mobile won’t work) and/or a combiner. Those pieces of equipment are pretty expensive and if you’re spending that kind of money on that equipment you usually wouldn’t be making repeaters. If you did go with the expensive stuff and cheap on the radio, as long as the radio itself has decent rejection, it would work. I can warn you that as the 880’s get up there in age, I’ve pulled several 880’s out of service because they can’t resist the hum of an alternator.
I have a couple 8180’s I could use if I can get the proper cables
Any Tk- 5720 yet ?
Besides it being VHF and this is showing on a UHF radio, it’s exactly the same.