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Date: | Sun, 3 Aug 2014 17:56:41 -0400 |
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Hi.
Speaking of unintended transmissions, I have to tell my tale. One feature I
liked about my 2000 was its ability to do cross band. I used it to link my
HT to a local repeater. Well, one day I had a doctor's appointment, and I
set the radio on cross band. Problem was I set the 440 band to one
repeater, and the 2 meter band to another repeater. There wasn't a problem
until one of the repeaters was keyed, then my radio would cycle the
repeaters, transmitting the audio from one, then the other. This was going
on for several hours. I got some phone calls about this while I was gone.
When I got back home I heard what was going on, and I quickly stopped the
problem. The radio was hot, but it didn't seem to have any damage. I had
hams from several counties looking for me. That was the first, and last
time I did that mistake. I still have a TM-V71A, and when it's not on Echo
Link I plan on using it in cross band mode.
Just letting you know that care needs to be used with these radios, but
they're built well.
73
Kevin Minor, N8EGA
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