KPG-89DN and TK-3180 Question

[N1SQB]

Good morning!
I finally got around to programing my new ( to me ) TK-3180 UHF portable. Being new to Kenwood software, I am in need of some help. First of all, I am new to Kenwood, but not to commercial CPS.
I managed to program the portable, read/write is fine. One thing that I noticed, is that the radio stops on a channel, you hear audio etc.. but the display only shows the channel # on the upper left corner, and the zone name, no channel name. Coming from Motorola, I’m used to seeing the channel name once scan stops. Is there a setting I’m not programming right?

Second issue: when I hit a button to toggle light on, only the SABC and the 1,2 keys light up.
I have a suspicion that someone rebased this radio wrong. It may have been a K2 and a K3 full keypad was installed. Does this make sense to anyone? If this is the case, do I need to get a new K3 board?

Manny.

 

[kd4efm]

so that means BLANK CHANNEL (no info) and you have the key menu set so it's mimicking a 16 channel per zone. (top switch)
Lights, check key assignment for this. If full keypad is off, this would happen.

I have to load 89D to get you photos. More to come, or someone will also post it.

 

[N1SQB]

so that means BLANK CHANNEL (no info) and you have the key menu set so it's mimicking a 16 channel per zone.
Lights, check key assignment for this. If full keypad is off, this would happen

Ok, I'm not sure I follow. I checked "key assignment" and it is set to 12 key. As far as the BLANK CHANNEL issue, I have 10 channels programmed in what looks like a 16 channel zone. Are you saying something needs to be changed?

 

[kd4efm]

Key assignments




If you take the stoper out from under the Channel knob, then you will roll back to channel 1 AND it will skip over empty channels in the zone

 

[kd4efm]

Note: I have sold of my x180 radios years ago when NX series came out
but what you're saying would be true as noted if you have 16chl/zone configured, it would give a tone if you skip a channel like 1,2,3,4,5,x,x,8,9,10,11,12,x,x,x,16
(x being blank)

 

[n7maq-1]

For your scan display you need to check a box.

 

[N1SQB]

YOU GUYS ABSOLUTELY ROCK! I am good to go. I was mistaken in the zone text length. I set it to none and now I'm good. I cannot thank you both enough.

Now the only issue I have left is that the number 1,3 keys light up but not the rest of the numbers. I still cannot figure that out.

 

[n7maq-1]

You were most likely correct in thinking it was re-cased. The keyboard needs 6 more LEDs. It may need more also but I have not done any conversions myself. I'll ask another tech when he is back in the shop.

 

[N1SQB]

You were most likely correct in thinking it was re-cased. The keyboard needs 6 more LEDs. It may need more also but I have not done any conversions myself. I'll ask another tech when he is back in the shop.

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That's what I thought but was not sure. Thanks for verifying that .
I am dealing with one more issue that's popped up now. When I TX on channel 1, it goes to ch-2. So then I tried to receive on ch-1 and it is not receiving. I triple checked frequencies and PL tones. I guess I'll get it right at some point.

 

[AM909]

It looks like, in addition to the six LEDs, it's just three 390 ohm resistors (R524 R525 R526) on the other (foil) side of the board