ericthenerd
Member
Hey all-
I'm currently running a dual-band TK-790/890 radio in my vehicle. I upgraded to this after using a single-band, remote-head 790 for over a year. To upgrade to both bands, I got the entire (dual-band, single head) setup used, and had my local Kenwood shop upgrade the firmware in both decks as well as enable ignition sense. I reused the antenna setup from the 790 to the VHF deck and added a quarter-wave UHF antenna for the 890 deck. I also reused the KCH-11 from the single-band setup that was already installed. I then dumped the proper programming in and all seemed to be well.
After having it installed for a few weeks, I noticed it would sometimes pause scanning and the busy light would come on with no audio, except for some intermittent chirps. When monitor was enabled, the audio would come through steady, but it was either repeater ID's or choppy audio from a dispatch across state lines that I don't want to hear. Somehow, the radio is detecting the audio and pausing scan regardless of the PL tone it is receiving. This only happens on VHF channels, I haven't had any issues on the UHF band. It also happens regardless of my squelch setting. It's only a bother because it's pausing scan for silence, and possibly causing me to miss audio I want to hear.
Is there a setting somewhere, or tuning that would fix this? I thought I was pretty familiar with these radios until this problem, and now I'm stumped.
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm currently running a dual-band TK-790/890 radio in my vehicle. I upgraded to this after using a single-band, remote-head 790 for over a year. To upgrade to both bands, I got the entire (dual-band, single head) setup used, and had my local Kenwood shop upgrade the firmware in both decks as well as enable ignition sense. I reused the antenna setup from the 790 to the VHF deck and added a quarter-wave UHF antenna for the 890 deck. I also reused the KCH-11 from the single-band setup that was already installed. I then dumped the proper programming in and all seemed to be well.
After having it installed for a few weeks, I noticed it would sometimes pause scanning and the busy light would come on with no audio, except for some intermittent chirps. When monitor was enabled, the audio would come through steady, but it was either repeater ID's or choppy audio from a dispatch across state lines that I don't want to hear. Somehow, the radio is detecting the audio and pausing scan regardless of the PL tone it is receiving. This only happens on VHF channels, I haven't had any issues on the UHF band. It also happens regardless of my squelch setting. It's only a bother because it's pausing scan for silence, and possibly causing me to miss audio I want to hear.
Is there a setting somewhere, or tuning that would fix this? I thought I was pretty familiar with these radios until this problem, and now I'm stumped.
Thanks in advance for your help.