Hi, kevin your aren't the only one who experienced this problem. I had
that experience with my kennwood tmv7a.
Sincerely,
Jason known as Blind Fury
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: I learned the TS-2000 has good finals, the hard way.
> Kevin,
>
> I enjoyed your story! I'm glad the hams forgave you. I've made mistakes,
> especially when I'm in a hurry.
>
> Ice tea is my favorite drink! Too bad you can't send it through
> cyber-space
> or through the coax, (grin). I'd be glad to drink it for you, (grin).
>
> Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Minor" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:18 PM
> Subject: I learned the TS-2000 has good finals, the hard way.
>
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm telling this story about what happened today to hopefully prevent you
>> cross band repeat users from doing what I did.
>>
>> It was about 1:00 p.m. I had a doctor's appointment to go to. At the
>> last
>> minute I decided to put the TS-2000 into cross band repeat mode. For
>> those
>> unfamiliar with what this mode is, it lets you receive on a band and
>> retransmits what the radio picks up on another band. In my case I was
>> cross
>> banding between 2 meters and 440 Mhz. When it works right, you can, for
>> example, have an HT which transmits a few watts on one band, the cross
>> band
>> radio receives the HT signal and rebroadcasts it on another band, either
>> using more power, or using an antenna that is in a good location. When
>> you're done transmitting with the HT, the cross band radio picks up
>> what's
>> on the other band and rebroadcasts it back to you, so the HT can receive
>> the
>> signal. I know this is the long way around telling you what cross band
>> repeat does, but I wanted to explain what happens.
>>
>> Here's what I wanted to do. I have a 2 meter repeater that I like to
>> use.
>> I can't reach it well where I live with my HT, so I use my handy dandy
>> TS-2000 in cross band repeat mode to reach it. I have a 440 frequency in
>> the 2000 set up to use this great mode. I've used it before, and it
>> works
>> quite well. I can walk to the shopping center a quarter mile away and
>> reach
>> my 2000, which in turn reaches the repeater. That is in theory how
>> things
>> should work.
>>
>> Now let me tell you what happened today. As I said, I had a doctor's
>> appointment. At the last minute I decided to put the 2000 in cross band
>> repeat mode. I thought I had everything set correctly. The trouble
>> began
>> when I got into my Mom's car. I tried to bring up the 2 meter repeater
>> with
>> my HT on 440. I couldn't. Something was definitely wrong. I didn't
>> know
>> what happened until a little after 5:00 p.m., when I got home. I had a
>> very
>> warm 2000. The reason it was so warm was it wasn't on the frequencies I
>> thought it should be, at least one of them. Here's a word of advice.
>> Don't
>> cross band repeat two repeaters. Do you know what happens if you do?
>> The
>> radio receives the signal from one repeater and transmits that signal to
>> the
>> other repeater. When the repeater being received quits transmitting, the
>> other repeater is picked up, and it is retransmitted to the first
>> repeater.
>> When that repeater is done transmitting, the first repeater is picked up,
>> and it is transmitted to the second repeater. Basicly, you have repeater
>> ping pong going on. For about three and a half hours I had hams in
>> Lexington and surrounding areas looking for the troublemaker. Someone
>> finally guessed I was the station causing the problem, and I received a
>> phone call. I wasn't home to get it, so things had to wait until I got
>> home
>> and turned off the cross band feature. I immediately got on the two
>> repeaters I linked together and let folks know who caused the excitement.
>>
>> There are three valuable things I can think of. As the subject of this
>> note
>> says, the TS-2000 has good finals in it. I wasn't transmitting at full
>> power, only 25 watts on each band. The radio was hot, but still working.
>> Secondly, as my Father says, "If you're going to do something, make sure
>> it's a quality job." I can definitely say I did that quite well.
>> Lastly,
>> the repeaters I linked together work well under heavy keying.
>>
>> I know this note is long, and some of it is redundant. I wanted to share
>> this with all of you so you don't do what I did, and I got a good chuckle
>> out of the incident. I apologized to all out there for my error, and
>> there's no hard feelings. The only bad thing I may have to suffer is
>> being
>> forced to drink ice tea. YUCK!!!
>>
>> 73
>> Kevin Minor
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