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Newbie with tk-7160h

Thread starter robert4296
Start date Jan 6, 2013

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robert4296

Newbie

Jan 6, 2013

Just want to say great site, I am really new to the vhf world, Iam a trucker and just picked up a kenwood tk-7160h and software for programming, and have programmed some basic channels with success, but the question is Iam trying to program the RC`s and have got the frequencies from this site but Iam not entirley sure if i should add the tone and if I should use the input frequency , obviously I am really really new to this, and iam not sure how to set it to randomly scan, a friend has the same model and its allways scanning and just chirping away with chatter where i have to manually change channels, and when driving can be frustrating.
So any basic help would be thankful