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TK-380 low microphone sensitivity

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I just reprogrammed my TK-380 to use for my work radio and got everything to work just fine with the current system (motorola cls 1410's) at work except for the fact that my mic volume coming across the other radios is really low. I have to pretty much yell into the mic for them to hear me. The weird part is that when I'm in close proximity to another radio the volume is fine, not great, but ok. But as soon as I get a hundred feet or so away it drops down to nearly inaudible.

I don't see any settings in the KPG49D software to adjust mic sensitivity or gain or anything like that. I have the compander turned off and I really can't think of what else would be causing this. I've tried with and without the parrot (external speaker/mic) and there's no difference so I'm ruling out just a lazy or broken mic.

Also I'm using a short DTMF code as a roger tone and it comes through loud and clear, just not my voice if that helps.

Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks!
 
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