Once you tuned it up, how well did it work?
BTW, from the Kenwood page at repeater-builder:
>Since the commercial allocation in most ofthe world is 440-470 mHz all the
>newer Kenwood UHF repeaters are designed cover that range. This makes
>moving a recent Kenwood to the USA amateur band a snap - just program them
>for the new frequencies and retune the RF stages (they come from the factory
>pretuned in the 460mHz region). The older ones are iffy - you will have to
>try it and see if it works. First measure the performace on the existing
>commercial frequencies, then program it for 450.0 and measure and compare,
>then 449.0 and compare, then 448.0, etc. You will soon figure out which
>stages are refusing to tune.
And does anybody have a photo of a TKR-720 or 820? I'd like one to
go along with the ones that are there.
Mike WA6ILQ
At 12:59 PM 9/4/04, you wrote:
>Ken,
>
>It's good to know that Kenwood now offers a TKR-850 repeater that is
>specified for operation down to 440 MHz. The last one I worked on was
>specified, in black and white, for 450-470 MHz. Its performance out of
>the box was mediocre on 70cm, and it required careful retuning to work
>in the 440-450 MHz band.
>
>73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
>
>Ken Arck wrote:
> >
>... Kenwood spec's the TKR-850 in the ham band.
> >
> > I'm looking at the service manual and there, in black and white, is the
> freq. spec
> > "Frequency range 440 to 470 Mhz". Not to mention the Kenwood FPU
> programming software has 440 to 450 Mhz as a valid range. They tune
> easily and meet full factory spec when retuned...
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