Hi, This may not be the exact answer. I know this is a kludge, but here's what I am having to do. Assuming that you are using one frequency pair on a TK 750,850 series...The repeater has 16 ch capability. Just program all the channels to the same frequency pair but different tones. Then by grounding the appropriate external aux I/O port select your channel (tone). You have to set this up with the Kenwood programming software. One caveat though, in repeat mode if you are doing this with an external controller as soon as the repeater receives the logic from the controller to the AUX I/O port it will drop xmit immediately. Thus you have no feedback, until you rekey and note the different tone being transmitted. I am engineering a 16F84A pic based circuit board to delay this logic by 2 secs and send a separate PTT command to the RC-210 controller I am using. This makes the tone change appear to be normal like the old ACC RC850 controller could do to its own Icom link xcvrs. As much trouble as it sounds, it still beats tearing into a new perfectly good repeater to install a tone board. There is still yet another option, and that is to use the multitable tone option. Then the tone out is controlled by a psuedo BCD code applied to the external AUX I/O ports. This is again enabled by the Kenwood programming software. I haven't tried to see if this drops the xmitr though. Alas this could easily be done with the on board firmware if Kenwood wanted to.
73 Bernie Parker K5BP Dallas Amateur Radio Club --- In [email protected], Ken Arck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 08:10 PM 1/12/2006 -0500, you wrote: > > >well I got a tkr-850 with the 210 and it has been working with no problems. > >love it it is real nice. also in the service book from Kenwood they show > >the hook up of a Zetron 38 tome panel to the 850 and it used the tone panel > >for encode and decode. > > <----The specific question is....can you control the encoded tone while the > transmitter is active? And by using the TKR's built-in tone encoder. > > In other words, if you have a hangtime of, let's say...5 seconds, can you > kill encoded tone half way through the hangtime? > > Ken > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- > President and CTO - Arcom Communications > Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories. > http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html > We offer complete Factory Authorized Kenwood TKR repeater packages! > We are now an authorized Telewave Dealer! > AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 > http://www.irlp.net > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
