TK-863g Talk Around question

[reddirtwest]

Greetings!

I have an 863g that's giving me fits. This radio has a "talk around" feature and it's applied itself to every Conventional channel I've set up. I have cleared the radio programming (unprogrammed), etc, to no avail.

Kenwood, in their service manual references this as a programmable feature. it seems to be just that in trunking mode, however I need to set up in conventional. To be very honest, it makes zero sense to have a TA feature that's not capable of being toggled by the user at/on the radio, so I sort of feel as if I'm missing something. There is no key assignment available for this that I can find.

I have chased every bit of info I could find on the forums, net, and even called Kenwood (its no longer service supported). I've found a lot of info and I'm better for it, but little to nothing on this talk around feature. I have searched and tried every option that even remotely may have had some effect and had zero luck. I have both the service and user manuals, am using KPG-76D software. this is my only issue...

I'm trying to set the radio us for GMRS, and specifically for some local repeaters, with this talk around enabled it wont allow me to access the repeaters, as it's stated function (and it seems to be effective) is to talk short range radio to radio by bypassing the repeater (I assume by talking on the receive freq.)

If anyone has any ideas I'd love the help.

Thanks all!

 

[reddirtwest]

Well, it seems I've found the issue. Somehow the freqs in tx/rx dropped the offset and I essentially had a manual TA programmed. restoring the offset removes the "TA" from the display for those channels and restores repeater functionality. I literally had about 9 hours in this debacle between trying to program/decipher a way to toggle, and researching on the web/calling. maybe (I hope) this may help someone else some day. funny how it seems that tthe answers always come after the "hail mary" pass...