Not good news as I just ordered my kenwood! Bad voice chip maybe?? 



73.
Darren Duff.
amateur radio station KK4AHX.

Vice President,
Cherokee Amateur Radio Society.
http://www.cherokeehams.com

Cherokee County ARES.
http://www.cherokee-ares.org
 
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 3:33 AM
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Subject: Programming memories on the Kenwood 71a

Hi, this is for any users of the Kenwood TMV-71A.  On Monday, I turned on my
Kenwood 71a and it wouldn't speak to me.  Must have been something I said.
I tried to console it but nothing doing.  
So, I got mad and wouldn't talk to it either.  Seriously, I did a full reset
and behold, the voice came back.  I programmed in a frequency and tried to
put it in a memory and that's when I started having issues.  I couldn't save
memories.  I even followed some directions I had written previously.  I
finally got one to stick but the voice said something like channel 1 of 9.
I have never heard it say that before and there are way more than 9 memories
available.  I thought I knew how to save memories but I guess not.  My menu
file is somewhat confusing even reading it on the braille display of the
Apex.  I wonder if any of you guys, and girls, has ever sorted out that
stuff into a more usable file either for speech or braille users, whatever
more usable might mean to people.  Anyway, I am still baffled about the unit
not talking.  Just turned it off a couple of days ago, then on today and no
speech.  Guess I ignored it too long.  Thanks for any advice.  Jim WA6EKS