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Butch Bussen <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:10:04 -0700
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Check your shift with the reverse key.  I'm not sure it is smart enough 
to know which direction to go.  Hit reverse and then check receive freq.
  function reverse to change.  If you have to do it twice, function 
reverse each time.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


xxOn Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Tom Behler wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
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> I have an interesting problem with my TMV71A, that has my 60-year-old brain
> baffled.
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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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