Tom,
Does the autoreapeter function work on 440?  Just a thought; isn't it 
the THF7 where it doesn't actually work?
Just a W A G?
Pat, K9JAUAt 07:14 PM 6/16/2014, you wrote:
>Hello, everyone.
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>I have an interesting problem with my TMV71A, that has my 60-year-old brain
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>There is a new 440 repeater that has come on the air in our local area, and
>I am trying to access it.
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>The frequency is 442.075 MHZ, with a PL tone of 103.5.
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>I have the auto-repeater function in menu 401 turned on, and the PL tone
>correctly set, but can't bring up the repeater.
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>At first, I thought I was simply too far from the repeater, but then tried a
>little experiment that threw that theory out the window.
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>Our local club's 440 repeater is about a mile from my house, and while I can
>key that repeater up from a pre-set memory channel with no problem, if I go
>into VFO mode, and enter the repeater parameters, I cannot access that
>repeater either.
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>So, clearly, something is wrong with my VFO B. manual repeater frequency
>entry function.
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>Does anyone have any trouble-shooting suggestions here?
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>Everything on the VFO A. side which I use for 2 meters is fine. . It's just
>VFO B. which I use for 440 where the problem seems to lie.
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>Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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