[Kenwood] TM-641A No Transmit on Repeaters.

[rbethman]

Gary,

Do you have the owner's manual and Service Manual?

Regards,
Bob - N0DGN


On 12/6/2014 5:08 PM, Gary V. Smith wrote:
> I recently picked up a TM-641A from an estate sale. It has just 2m and 
> 1.25m installed.  The 220 side seems to work good on simplex although 
> there is a dearth of 220 repeaters in my area on which to test it. The 
> display light dims considerably on transmit but that may be an antenna 
> issue. It also transmits on any 2m simplex frequency.  At first I 
> didn't think it was doing that when I happened to notice that one of 
> the simplex frequencies had a PL on it.  When I removed that a hand 
> held at arms length received it fine.  I tested on other simplex 
> frequencies and it worked fine.  However, it will not transmit on any 
> repeater set up even though it presents as doing so.  I tried several 
> different local repeaters.  All offsets and PLs are correct.  No joy. 
> Thinking it might be a PL issue I programmed a local repeater that 
> doesn't currently have a PL.  Still no joy.  Any thoughts on what this 
> problem might be?
>
> 73,
> Gary - W6GVS
> Dowagiac, MI