Kenwood Tk 2170 Problem

[BrianD90]

So...I have my radio programmed for fire, ems, police etc, the correct way, I've double checked frequencies and qt/dqt tones over and over.

For some reason...I can transmit just fine, and pick up NOAA weather radio just fine so I doubt its a problem with the radio itself but when it comes to receiving I can't hear anything...if the transmission is long enough, the green light will come on but no audio will play and even after the transmission is finished the green light stays on until I change the channel or power off the rado....what is going on?

Also, I have to hold the PTT button for like 5 seconds before I talk otherwise it wont go through...

 

[code3cowboy]

Is this when you are scanning or on specifically on a channel?

What do you hear when it finally unsquelches? Is the audio booming? Who last tuned your radio? Is your mic hung up? Are you using the speaker in the face or an external one?

I am thinking you need to re tune your receiver. I had the same problem years ago with my V mobile, a kenwood of some variety, and had blasted in a dat file and some bad tuning values. That radio could now hear a flea fart in a windstorm.

 

[glatts17]

If the light is staying on but orange i would suspect the channel is set up with some kind of SELCALL or DTMF paging or something but having it stay on green after transmission makes no sense to me. I would suspect if the channel has any optional signalling on it it does not have the correct AND/OR combination to open the audio but if its just a straight up channel with no optional signalling and your not hearing people the radio must be having troubles properly decoding the QT as far as the channel staying green after transmission that makes no sense to me unless it was orange that indicates opt signalling. The only time I would ever see no audio going through until time has passed is when there is a Repeater system being used and that would be normal for you have to pause before you talk as there is key up delay time for audio but on simlpex there should be no audio delay at all. There is no programming to delay transmission of audio in the software so thats also weird.