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I am looking for a DTMF mic for an old Kenwood TK-805 Commercial radio. The port has a 6-pin mic connector. I found a 6 pin dtmf mic, but don't think it will work: Here Does anyone have any suggestions, or info on what DTMF mic would work? Service Manual of the 805-d...

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Hi, I want to power my 50 watt mobile 12v rig from 25-50 feet from my rig. How thick do I need my power cable to be to handle the current needed to power the rig for TX? Would some wire like this work?

Hi, I have the Alinco DR-600 2m/70cm cross band full duplex mobile transceiver. The VHF squelch knob seems to have a minor problem; when I turn it to the most sensitive setting (like when you can hear all the white noise) the noise comes in and out and is not staying there. Is there...

I decided to try to hook up a really nice condenser mic with the three pin output to my radio using a mixer to power the microphone because it needs power to operate. When I transmit, and the microphone is plugged in, I get all of this interference, and can't hear anything except this...

Yeah, I kinda still have to find a good power supply. I don't do my 50 watts that long, and my battery is not horrible, it is 17 amp hours. I looked on e-bay and the only microphones for that radio didn't have DTMF. Does anyone have any links to a mic that does have DTMF and is compatable...

Is there any way I can control it with a bit less audio, I would like not to use an amp, just my computers sound card output, and I have no transformer to make the voltage larger.

Hello, I was going to build a quick SIMPLEX repeater, but I realized that my new (actually old, but just got it) rig doesn't have VOX. It is a kenwood tm-241a. I was wondering if there was any SIMPLE transistor/relay/capacitor/resistor etc. circuit that could achieve VOX from my computers...

I fixed it. The mic was a bad mic, and the 12 volt SLA battery was low, explaining the weird noises on fifty watts! Now the question is, where can I find a cheap compatible DTMF mic?

By the way, they are not difficult to program manually, just enter the recieving frequency, go to mem-chan menu, and press the menu twice on the channel you want, then enter the transmitting memory, go to mem-chan and do same, the only thing you can't do is have channel names, with that, you...

Better than my kenwood I had a broken antenna that had some crazy SWR and it burned out a kenwood! But the UV-5R Survived. Hope I can get that nice kenwood fixed! A lot of things are reliable, but china still hasn't got everything right! My first 5R's power button got screwed up, returned...

I just got a used Kenwood tm241a. It was working fine on my friends antenna until I took it home and hooked it up to a used Larsen nla-mm antenna I bought at a ham-fest. It seemed to work fine on that antenna for a bit until I was hearing a weird hum out of the speaker on the higher edge...

Thanks, I may have caused a bit of confusion, I wanted to hit repeaters 50+ miles and simplex 10-15 miles to some friends

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Im in CO a bit too far, but thanks anyway!