Hey Guys, I'm trying to program a Kenwood TK-3180 with a channel just for night pages (2-tone fire page). I can't seem to find a way to program the radio so that it requires both the PL and the 2-tone page in order to set off the alarm on the radio and open the squelch. Best I've come up with is turning the audio all the way down and the alarm all the way up so that all radio traffic is quiet but the alarm will sound when the department is paged.. Easy to do on a Motorola HT with the "And/Or" option but I can't find a similar option in the Kenwood software.. Any insight and/or suggestions would be appreciated...
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Night Page Programming for a Kenwood TK-3180
- Thread starter jeffd2
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The And/Or you seek in the 3180 lives in the zone edit section as Audio Control. Click the button to open the zone edit window.
THANK YOU! Looked everywhere (Except the Zone Edit Section) as I only have one Zone.. Odd place to put it from my experience.. Very Much appreciate the assistance... Thanks Again!
unfortunately, it makes the whole zone behave that way! I ended up putting my paging channel in another zone because I had MDC signaling on other channels, which would have been muted otherwise.
By the way, I love it when people explore options. Kudos to you breaking out of the box for answers.
