Kenwood: Kenwood TM V71 and narrowband public safety reception

[N9OZE]

I have a couple of Kenwood TM V71's that I am trying to program to receive a couple of frequencies I use at work. I don't want to transmit on the public safety frequencies below, just listen to them, These VHF public safety channels are narrowband and will not program into the TM V71.

The frequencies I wish to receive are 155.5425 and 154.1525.

I've tried different offsets and can't put these in directly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

N9OZE

 

[MTS2000des]

The V71A does not support tuning those 2.5KHz "splinter" channels now used by many public safety agencies. You will have to get a radio that does, the only Kenwood ham radios that do are the TM-271 and TM-281, most other Japanese ham radios from Icom and Yaesu do not support these modern narrowband channels steps either.