Kenwood TK-709 Mobile

miknwv · Post by **miknwv** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:18 am

Hello all im new to the forum. I'm a firefighter from WV and just purchased a Kenwood TK-709 mobile radio. I got everything to work fine, but I can't seem to get teh scanning programming right. I want it to scan with the channel that it is on being the priority channel, and to be the channel it broadcasts on when I key up the mic. Say, if I were on channel 3 and hit scan, 3 would be the priority. If i were on 2, 2 would be the priority, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

miknwv@aol.com

Meatball · Post by **Meatball** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:12 pm

Under "scan options," set "Priority Channel" to "selected." Select "revert" to "Priority." That should make it function as you describe.

miknwv · Post by **miknwv** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:15 pm

Thanks man....

Meatball · Post by **Meatball** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:34 pm

No problem.

miknwv · Post by **miknwv** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:54 pm

Ok I just opened the program kpg-20d and it doesn't have an option where you can select "selected" as priority channel. Under priority channel it gives me the option of 1 through 250 or off. Under that is preference channel with the same parameters. I finally programmed it to where when I"m on channel 3 and scanning, when I key up it keys up on channel 3...but with that same priority scan, channel 1 takes priority as far as incoming traffic. LOL, clear as mud?

Meatball · Post by **Meatball** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:27 am

Hmm, that's a pretty early radio. I'll have to check the software at the shop. I don't have anything for the TK-709, but I have software for the TK-705....the same chassis and probably similar features. I know the TK-705 is very basic in terms of what it will do for scanning. I'm thinking that the option choices may be limited.

I'll take a peek when I'm back in the shop in Monday and see what the scan options are on the TK-705.

miknwv · Post by **miknwv** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:36 pm

Thanks. I think I just about got everything set up. I don't believe it has the option to priority scan on the selected channel, however I did figure out how to get it to key up on the selected channel when scanning.

Meatball · Post by **Meatball** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:32 pm

I checked out the KPG-20 software today, and you're right. The scan options are limited. You can define a priority channel, and you can define a "preferred channel" for the radio to go back to when you press PTT during scan, but that's it.

miknwv · Post by **miknwv** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:40 pm

Yeah pretty much. You can only select one channel to revert to instead of whatever channel you're on. I guess it's an old radio and i just need to upgrade. Thanks for looking into it!