ic 4021 and 4011

[redneckcellphone]

at work we use kenwoods (not sure about the model number) and there 2 watts. but anyway a few months ago i programmed my 4011 for 452.5375 narrowband. recently i kept being told my voice was always low and no matter if people turned up the volume on their radio they had a hard time hearing me. so i stopped using my radio at work.

now i just picked up a 4021t. programmed it the same way and the first person to tell me how i sounded said i needed to turn the volume down on my radio. few hours later i got told i needed to speak louder. asked the person when i saw them if they also heard static to which she said no.

ive never had a problem with my radios till the narrowbanding went into effect so could that be the issue? i dont have the software or programming cable to check work radios for narrowbanding or ability to talk to the company that supplied us with the radios

thanks

 

[cabletech]

A dollor to a donut plus two choclot chip cookies, tells me that more then likely your work radios have NOT been correctly set for the narrow band, as, if you know for sure that your Icoms are correctly set for narrow band, then there should be no problem.

I have a couple of systems that I listen to and also work with, that have a real mix of equipment, Icom, Kenwood Motorola and Vertex all in the same system and their is no complaints about audio.

See if you can find out if the company radios have truely been narrow banded.

 

[redneckcellphone]

just programmed my radio with a second channel just for wide but i found it strange how one person said i was low which i know could be because i put it into narrow but why would someone else say to turn it down? weird. i forgot to mention that my 4011 is over 2 years old but guess tonight ill find out if the work stufff is wide band or not

 

[redneckcellphone]

managed to figure out that the work radios are incorrectly set up and are still in wideband. thanks cabletech