Eric Lemmon wrote: > Paul, > > You have put your finger on the major difference between modern Motorola and > Kenwood radios. Kenwood chose to equip their products to process only the > 180-degree phase shift reverse-burst squelch tail elimination scheme, while > Motorola Professional Series radios can be programmed for either 180-degree > or 120-degree phase shift. TIA-603-C, the international standard for > land-mobile radio performance, recognizes both reverse schemes as equally > viable. Kenwood may recapture some market share, once their radios are > equipped to encode and decode reverse burst in either scheme. > > 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
Trouble with that is, I have never had a problem decoding Motorola R/B on a newer Kenwood...anything from the 05D's up, and H/H since the 250/350's...it's mostly the made-for-ham that had trouble, and that's changed in the last few years too. Mostly.
