Most of the time I am hanging out and monitoring on 145.145 or 447.575 with
a sub tone of 1072 on both machines. Both those repeaters are on Squaw
Mountain 30 miles southwest of Denver at 11,500 feet so they cover nearly
the whole front range. You'd never have any trouble hitting them and
probably even with a handy talky. I've got to reprogram this Kenwood V7A
now but that won't take long, haw.
Phil.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Kenwood V7a
> No problem, Phil, and one of these days, we have to connect again on
> one
> of the local Denver area repeaters.
>
> I forget which one we talked on before, but it'd be fun to do it again
> sometime.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Kenwood V7a
>
>
>> Don't know what happen to my reply, Tom, but I did get your message and
>> saved it for future reference. thanks for sending it again.
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:57 AM
>> Subject: Fw: Kenwood V7a
>>
>>
>>> Phil:
>>>
>>> If you tried to respond to my e-mail last night regarding the TMV7A, it
>>> came
>>> through as a bunch of computer junk that was unreadable.
>>>
>>> My original response is below.
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: "For blind ham radio operators" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:03 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Kenwood V7a
>>>
>>>
>>> Phil:
>>>
>>> Sorry to hear about your frustrations.
>>>
>>> I used to have three TMV7A's--the displays for two of which ultimately
>>> went
>>> bad.
>>>
>>> I still have one of them yet, and can use it in a pinch, but it's not
>>> worth
>>> trying to get the display fixed.
>>>
>>> Save your money, and get a TMV71A when you can; you won't regret it.
>>>
>>> I too have had similar problems calling Kenwood on the west coast, and
>>> I've
>>> heard that the Virginia repair center is much easier to deal with.
>>>
>>> Another thing you might do is contact Cliff Holland in Texas.
>>>
>>> I had him replace the finals in one of my TMV7A's a number of years ago,
>>> and
>>> was extremely satisfied with both his charges and his workmanship.
>>>
>>> Cliff's e-mail address is:
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>
>>> Good luck, and let us know if we can be of any more help.
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:27 PM
>>> Subject: Kenwood V7a
>>>
>>>
>>> So, after not using my V7A for a long time due to my newer radio
>>> application, I go to fire it up the other day and after reading from the
>>> cheat sheets and manual and everything I could lay my hands on, I waited
>>> till my young son got off work to read the display for the individual
>>> menu
>>> changes I needed to make. No display! The dumb thing was dim and only
>>> half
>>> the display even worked. I got a friend to walk me through the steps to
>>> turn the brightness up and that did nothing. Now I find out, Kenwood
>>> admits
>>> the display going out on the V7A models years ago was their biggest
>>> problem.
>>> I called Kenwood and listened to their 10,000 menus on the phone,
>>> finally
>>> found what I thought I wanted, called that number, a kids who sounded 15
>>> years old said, "What are you talking about." It was the Kenwood ham
>>> radio
>>> west coast repair department and he didn't even know what radio I was
>>> talking about. What was I talking about; Icom radios? Come on! So,
>>> since
>>> he had the I Q of a grasshopper, he said, "I'll ring the guy who handles
>>> that radio. It rings 4 times, a female recording comes on and says,
>>> "You
>>> have reached..." with a blank spot for a person name who handles those
>>> calls, and then she says, "So leave your number and we will call you
>>> back."
>>> I left a message longer than the U S Constitution, hung up, dialed up
>>> the
>>> website, type out a request email, and then when it saves and sends, it
>>> says, "We will answer you in 3 to 5 days." What? You heard me. In
>>> this
>>> technological age of the internet, Kenwood can't answer emails about
>>> repairs
>>> for 3 to 5 days. Ain't being a ham fun? If I had the money, I'd get
>>> the
>>> 71
>>> but you know how that goes.
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>> K0NX
>>>
>>
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