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
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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]>
>>
>>