Programming motorola on a kenwood repeater

[slobonmycob]

I've run into a doozy. I'm trying to program a conventional freq. in CPS. The Tx DPL code for the kenwood repeater is 634 but cps doesn't list that as the option. I'm hearing traffic on the radio just fine but i can't get the transmit to work. Any help much appreciated.

 

[jeepsandradios]

634 is not a valid MSI DPL code. You wont find it in the radio.

 

[AM909]

634 should be equivalent to 132.

 

[slobonmycob]

634 is not a valid MSI DPL code. You wont find it in the radio.

I know this. I need to find its equivalent.

 

[slobonmycob]

634 should be equivalent to 132.

That’s wayyy different than what the shop told me. But I’ll try it

 

[nokones]

What model Motorola do you have? My XPR radios will take the non-standard DPL codes using CPS2.

 

[slobonmycob]

What model Motorola do you have? My XPR radios will take the non-standard DPL codes using CPS2.

Apx

 

[slobonmycob]

634 should be equivalent to 132.

I tired it didn’t work.
I can hear traffic just fine but can’t transmit

 

[GTR8000]

Not gonna happen; APX aren't capable of non-standard PL/DPL.

 

[jeepsandradios]

I know this. I need to find its equivalent.

There isn't.

 

[KevinC]

I know this. I need to find its equivalent.

The equivalent is to use a TIA approved code.

 

[nokones]

The Kenwood TK780 & 880 radios will accommodate the non-standard Tones and DPL codes. I think the 7180 & 8180 radios do. I not sure if the NX series radios do.

 

[AM909]

I tired it didn’t work.
I can hear traffic just fine but can’t transmit

OK – I confirmed it with a TK-3180, for which KPG-89D lets you program any DPL code.



Both of these TX/RX fine with a CCR programmed for D132N (and, just for completeness, do not work if it's programmed for D134N). Sure you didn't typo somewhere or maybe it's an "I" (inverted) code instead of a "N" (normal) one? The inverted equivalent is 546. All 8 of these codes are indistinguishable OTA (+ for N, - for I), though they are all "officially" known as 132N or 546I:

+132​

+605​

+634​

+714​

-317​

-546​

-614​

-751​

See DPL / DCS Information as a good reference for how and why and the other equivalences and edge cases.

 

[speedway_navigator]

When I got to the LA Bearcom office years ago to pick up radios for the Rose Bowl game I found the rental guy had non standard PLs in the portables that the GR300 repeaters would not work with. The portables were set at 12.5 kHz which the repeaters could not do and 2 channels only 75 kHz apart had the same PL.