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MOONBOOTS said:
OK. Just so you know, while a 450+ TK-840 covers the whole UHF ham band [my 4 do anyways] a 450+ TK-880 does not. Depending on the particular radio, RX will start at 442, or 443. TX goes a little lower. There's a simple VCO adjustment required to fix this.
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I received my TK-880 day before yesterday. Although the KPG-49D RSS complains about RX and TX being "out of range" receive and transmit on a 442.200 repeater is just fine.

I ordered a power cable since this one did not include cable or mic. The red and black leads on this supposed correct power cable are backwards! Darn good thing I noticed that before hooking it up to my power supply!!!
 
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Well, finally got the USB programming cable, and tried it through dosbox..no dice. It took some tinkering around but finally got the radio to read and write..through the cmd window.

Upon testing, I was unable to make contact with anyone. I'm hitting the repeater just fine, but as moonboots suggested earlier, it seems my audio is really low. Testing on simplex with my ht1000 revealed the same. I had to turn the volume up pretty high to hear myself.

I'll be sending that soon moonboots.
 
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Josh380 said:
Well, finally got the USB programming cable, and tried it through dosbox..no dice. It took some tinkering around but finally got the radio to read and write..through the cmd window.

Upon testing, I was unable to make contact with anyone. I'm hitting the repeater just fine, but as moonboots suggested earlier, it seems my audio is really low. Testing on simplex with my ht1000 revealed the same. I had to turn the volume up pretty high to hear myself.

I'll be sending that soon moonboots.
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Whenever you want. The radios aren't going anywhere. Happy Holidays. GARY
 
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Yep. Good guy for sure. Both radios look new, even came with rubber feet on the bottoms of both which is really nice. They both work great and I couldn't be happier.

73's man. Thanks!
 
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