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Before I moved had an ATCS feed with a L-comm grid antenna in the attic. House was at a decent elevation with no obstructions and had useable MCP coverage out to 40 miles with a Lucent preamp on an MDS data radio.

Tried an old desktop I had running XP but with a serial port and all is well.

Non-OEM serial KPG-43 from KJ6ZWL on Amazon. Always had luck with him in the past. Serial to USB adapter that I have programmed numerous Kenwood and Icoms through as well on same machine. First 790 though. Adapter and KPU com port matches and have tried various.

Picked up a remote mount 790 off the auction site. Radio is functioning and had a few NWS stations programmed and RX is fine. Unable to communicate with KPG-44D software (display shows PC and then get comm/check settings error). Further in trying to check the firmware, radio seems to ignore the...

D801 should have quite a bit of resistance correct?

All ribbon cables seated and still nothing. Pulled from truck and put back together without remote mount cable with ribbon terminal down etc and still nothing. Also out of truck test was with a power supply so remote cable and power issues possibility eliminated.

Yes and it is getting power.

Yesterday my TK-7180 used for receive only failed to power up. It has power and ignition sense is disabled . Speaker does appear to pop if power is reconnected but will not power on. It's remote mounted so have yet to pull it. Any thoughts or things to check?

No mic, RX only for rail and a little weathernet now and then. Superlok held tight this week in some pretty good Ohio heat. The OEM Kenwood head bracket eats up some valuable space and turned the space below head into a nice snare trap for my hand. If the Superlok fails I'll have to modify the...

After last weekends successful antenna install, this evening was set aside to get the remote mount NX-700 installed. Decided to put the radio behind the rear drivers side seat so needed to get power, the remote cable and an external speaker wire routed back to there which Toyota made rather easy...

Install photo Showing mount and leads

Recently purchased a 2014 Toyota Tacoma and wanted to find a way to get an antenna on it for mostly monitoring the RR band. While drilling for an NMO mount was always an option, it was more of a last resort for me. Studying what I could find about the factory gps/XM Sharkfin, I found a VW...

Usually a directional antenna with have big enough side or rear lobes that you still hear quite a bit away from the area you have it aimed at. My setup on the South Central Ohio railroadradio.net feed is aimed south but I still hear a solid 25 miles to the north.

TK-730 schematics

NS has licensed several for use with the Bellevue, Ohio expansion

Also used to have detectors repeat transmissions. Not sure what number they key in but on many installs on CSX, the detector will respond "Rebroadcast" and then repeat the last transmission.

Half Square Beam My homebrew half square beam in the attic due to HOA. Decent performer as can be heard here - http://www.railroadradio.net/content/view/123/173/

Half Square Beam Found a copy of Cebik's work on these - QSL Link

Late to the show... After reading up on Cebik's site years ago, I set out to construct a 3 element half square beam for 161 MHz. Due to deed restrictions, antennas of any size need to be in my attic so I spent the first few years at my house tinkering with various antennas trying to maximize...

Arrow Antenna has a 4 element yagi for 162 MHz for like $85 that is very nice. It does well in my attic but my 3 element half square beam out does it a bit.