Tom,

If you want error beeps on 446.850, put your radio in Shift+ mode.  That
will cause the radio to try to transmit on 451.850, which is outside the
band.  If the radio is in simplex, or shift minus, you will not get the
beeps.  By the way, as far as I know, 446.850 is within the band.  Am I
missing something?

Steve

On Monday 6/2/03 11:40 Tom Behler wrote:
>Hello, all.
>
>I have a question for Kenwood THF6A users, and would appreciate any help you
>could give me.
>
>When I travel to visit my son at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, I
>have to use a cross-band arrangement to access a repeater link system that
>covers Western Michigan.  Basically, you transmit on the input freq of
>147.16 with a 107.2 pl tone, and listen on 446.850.  When I first started
>doing this, I would always get "error beeps" when pushing the PTT on the
>446.850 listening frequency, which was good, because I would then not have
>the possibility of accidentally transmitting on that frequency.  On two
>occasions now, I have been working with the radio, and have lost those error
>beeps on the 446.850 listening frequency, and the rig now actually transmits
>on that frequency.  I fixed the problem once, but forget how I did it.  I
>did a VFO re-set, and a menu re-set, but the problem still persists--i.e. no
>error beeps, and the possibility of transmitting on the listening freq.
>
>This problem is driving me nuts, and I have to believe the solution is
>simple.
>
>I guess you get the error beeps when pushing the PTT on 446.850 since that
>freq is usually not used for duplex or even simplex operation.
>
>Any help here would be appreciated.
>
>I hope I have verbalized the question well.
>
>Thanks, and best 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ