I can't say for the TKR-750 but I can say most other Kentwood software I've
used be it dos or windows has been workable. I run commercial equipment for
most of my VHF and UHF use and more often than not it's icom or Kentwood
since I find both to be a lot better in performance than motorola though I
use some of that as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: The mystery transceiver is identified!
> no surprise that kenwood commercial programming software is accessible
> since
> their ham software is also very accessible.
> good to know about the 805's and 705's because I see those at flee markets
> all the time.
> too bad about the tkr750 since we use several of those in our repeater
> system currently...really good solid repeaters, except the solder on the
> final power transistors tends to over heat and run causing no output to
> occur...when we get a tkr750 we always resolder with silver solder and
> have
> no issues anymore with the repeater going silent lol.
> after two machines had this problem we don't even put them in service
> until
> the silver solder thing is done.
> Now, if I could only get my good repeater builder buddy to lend me his
> signal hound gear, I could see if that's accessible or not. We use a
> couple
> of boxes, one is a signal generator, and the other is an analyzer, both
> connect via USB to the netbook we use on site. It can be a bit slow at
> times, that is it has a slight delay when you are making adjustments to
> the
> cans, but for tuning cans it works very very well indeed.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 10:25 AM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The mystery transceiver is identified!
>
>> I don'tt remember the beginning of this thread, but the 805 was uhf and
>> 705 was vhf. I use to sell them and the cool thing acout those radios
>> is they were field programable. One of the best commercial radios they
>> made. Dos based software as I recall. Their software for their tkr-850
>> repeater is only somewhat accessable with speech. Some stuff just
>> doesn't work.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, John Miller wrote:
>>
>>> I believe so. Kentwood commercial radio programming software is
>>> generally
>>> very accessible. I've had a lot of it and never had trouble with their
>>> software.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Don Breda" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 5:28 AM
>>> Subject: Re: The mystery transceiver is identified!
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi John.
>>>>
>>>> is that radio the same as the commercial kenwood tk805?
>>>>
>>>> Always wanted one but wasn't sure I could really program it reliably.
>>>>
>>>> Don
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Don Breda <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>>
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