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Kenwood TKR-850 alignment

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I recently acquired a Kenwood TKR-850-1 V2. I have gone through it and it had low out power, I solved that (reflowed the PA transistor solder pads). Right now it is slightly off frequency and I am wondering about aligning this back with specs. I looked through the service manual and am not seeing a procedure for this. Is this a software adjustment or a tuning pot adjustment. I have done plenty of of radio alignments on Motorola, but not many on Kenwoods. Thanks for any assistance. If I can get this back on frequency, it is good to go. It is showing about 1.25 KHz off. Using a GD R2670B analyzer For testing.
 

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Read repeater, then CTRL T for tuning mode.

First read it and then set your tuning freq to your channel 1 freq.
Edit, and test freg at the bottom of the edit menu.

Program it, then CTRL-T.
 

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Thanks !!! Got it to only 5Hz error. Going to replace the cooling fan and retune the duplexer.
 
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