Kenwood TM V708 will not recieve

[Rescue14]

I just purchase a used Kenwood TM V708. When I program in a repeater frequency I can transmit fine but I never hear anything on the radio. If I transmit on simplex it sends and recieves fine. I have reprogramed and even reset the radio back to factory but the same thing every time. Been through the book forward and backward and still can't get it to work. HELP!!!!!

 

[W8RMH]

Do you have both the transmit and receive frequencies entered, including any PL tones?

 

[mmckenna]

If I transmit on simplex it sends and recieves fine.

Can you define that for me? Are you in the same room with a hand held and the radio picks it up, or are you listening to a far off station and it receives fine? Try tuning to a local NOAA station and let me know if it works.

It may be something simple, but my dad's Yaesu FT7900 did the same thing. Turned out his commercial UHF radio fried a diode in the front end of the receiver of the 7900. Had to go back to the shop to be repaired.
Your's might be a simple setting issue, if you try the test above with NOAA weather, it'll help us out.

 

[n5ims]

To check your receiver to the following (you probably know most of this, but may have missed something) - Manual page #s are based on this version of the manual http://www.kenwoodusa.com/UserFiles...ons/AMA/Manuals/TM-V708A (K)-English O-M.pdf:

1. Make sure that the Mute function is not active (page 69 of the manual).

2. Turn off all tone, CTCSS, and DCS functions (pages 28, 53, & 55 of the manual). You want no tones defined since all they do is restrict what is received and you want to hear anything and everything during this test.

3. Rotate the squelch so you hear static on your receiver (page 20 of the manual). This should be the larger of the two controlls for each band.

4. Select the correct band where a known signal is transmitting (use a scanner or other receiver to find one - as indicated above the NOAA Weather frequencies are generally good for this).

5. Enter the known active frequency to verify proper receiver operation (hopefully things will work as expected at this point) (page 20 of the manual). If the frequency doesn't transmit continuously (e.g. a local repeater vs the NOAA Weather station) monitor with another radio and check when a transmission is active.

6. Repeat for the other band(s) as necessary (NOAA Weather will work for VHF-Hi, but another signal source will be required for UHF).

 

[Rescue14]

Still Not working

It will pick up NOAA radio. If I use the local repeater the squelch must be making static all the time for the reciever to pick up the repeater when I transmit with my handheld. I have always used Yaesu in the past and never had this kind of problem. The radio was working fine when I picked it up.

 

[Rescue14]

Kenwood not recieving

I just discovered while monitorning NOAA radio that if I turn the squelch the slightes bit to the right that I can no longer hear NOAA. I believe it is something in the squelch setting somewhere. As I said before if I squelch left until I hear static all the time I can recieve on the repeater channel.

 

[rescuecomm]

Sounds like a bad coax or antenna connection. Have you tried a portable antenna to check the receive with?

 

[Rescue14]

Kenwood trouble

Hooked it up to a basce station antenna that my Yeasu uses and then to a mag mount and then in my vehicle. Same results every time