8180 or 7180, UHF or VHF

[andysims]

The nameplate on the radio our FD uses for paging says its an TK-8180-K. I read the data from the radio and when I started to save it, it asked if I wanted to save a dat file or a sdt file (I chose a dat file). The KPG-92d software showed the paging frequency as 154.980 with no QT(which is the correct). I then made a change to the B-tone setting and wrote it back to the radio. The change did not do what we wanted so we loaded the saved dat file and wrote it back to the radio. Now when I read the radio it shows the frequencies as UHF (460 something) and a QT of D116N. If I try to change the frequency to 154.980 the program says the frequency is out of range. Now here's the weird part... the radio is still transmitting and setting off our pagers on 154.980. I can't figure out what's going on. What is a sdt file and could that be the problem, or should I be using the KPG-89d software to program this radio? I read that the 8180's are UHF and the 7180 are VHF, but our 8180 is operating on VHF... any suggestions on what I need to do to get it showing the correct frequencies would be appreciated.

 

[ramal121]

Both your 7180 and 8180 (K) radios need to be programmed with KPG-89D. KPG-92D is for MPT trunked X180s and is a different animal all together. Surprised you didn't get a model mis-match warning.

If the codeplug is not too boogered, you can make the changes in 89D and also look for other errors. If it seems whacked, you may have to rebuild it from scratch and write it to the radio. Save your user data as a .dat file.

 

[Av8tor56]

Only one real question... Was the radio purchased brand new? Make that two: Has it been rebuilt? Since the 7180 and the 8180 use the same chassis during a rebuild for any exterior damage it could have been placed in a 8180 chassis.

 

[Astro25]

Since the physical sticker on the bottom of the radio says it's an 8180, you've got a UHF radio. It could be possible that your department uses a UHF link to a VHF transmit site to send out pages/dispatch calls.