TK 690/790/890 Repeater ????

jsikora · Post by **jsikora** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:21 pm

I was at a local fire department today working on repairs of a repeater. The fireman there showed me there new radios. They were Kenwood TK 690 / 790 dual band dual head. On the head they have a button labled RPT. If you push it it state repeater on the display. I glanced around but did not see any other box except the uhf and lowband drawer.

Is this a programming feature ? I have one of these units in my truck, but never saw it in the programming anywhere.

Any one seen or used one of these ?

JAS

Libuff · Post by **Libuff** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:21 pm

maybe activates the external repeater such as a Pac-RT or Pyramid IVR?

Andy Brinkley · Post by **Andy Brinkley** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:17 am

Cross Band repeater.

Standard on the dual band 90 series Kenwoods

jsikora · Post by **jsikora** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:33 am

Andy,

I thought it was a crossband repeater, but didn't know how to set it up. Is it just a programming feature ? In talking to the chief, it appears this must be a setup thing in the software as they have no way to change the lowband or UHF freq. I'll have to check my software. That would be a really nice feature to have.

Jeff