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Diggerodell
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 9:00 am: | 
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one of my police freinds gave me a 100 watt fm kenwood radio. he took it off of his police bike. what type of antenna do i need base or mobile??
MANY THANKS
BOBBY |
kc0gxz
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 1:29 pm: |
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Diggerodell
How do you plan to use it and what frequency range is it in?
Jeff, kc0gxz. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 5:32 pm: |
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Next question:isn't that larceny? |
Diggerodell
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 7:31 pm: |
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i dont know the freq!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and no it is not larcecy he gave it to me.......... |
Tech808
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 7:43 pm: |
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Diggerodell,
Does it have a MODEL Number on it?
Without a model Number or knowing what frequencies it has in it, or covers there is no way to recommend an antenna for it.
If your friend gave it to you and it was working he should be able to tell you what Freq's it covered and what bands his antenna covered.
FM covers a very WIDE area / with many different Bands.
Lon
Tech808 |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 7:42 pm: |
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This sounds like one for Bruce. Being he works on radios for the police department, he might be the best bet. Good luck Bobby.
Where are you Bruce? |
bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 7:44 pm: |
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see if you can find the model number and look here
http://www.kenwood.net/indexKenwood.cfm?do=ProductGroup&ProdCatID=2&Group=2
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Kd4amg
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 9:36 pm: |
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...dont go talking on it till you have some idea what the frequency is,... you might get in REAL BIG trouble...just listen to it |
de
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 9:43 pm: |
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A fine evening to all.
If said radio is truly a police use radio then te radio is in the 50 mhz. VHF, or UHF Range. As such it is probabbly too far from 27 mhz to be used as a CB without extensive modification, and CB requires type acceptance at any rate which will definately NOT be granted given the power output.
If conversion to Amateur Use is the idea then this may be possible (hams do not require type acceptance for their radios and they can run up to 1500 watts pep) but probably NOT practical. Unless the radio has an adjustable repeater offset it will be stuck on direct use, and most hams stay on the repeaters.
And FM is another problem. FM is common place on the VHF and UHF bands. However how many CB people use FM.
Having the radio may be nice but conversion to practical use should not be expected.
AND PLEASE do not broadcast on the police frequency. You will definately bring down a ton of heat on you. |
Diggerodell
| | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 8:51 am: |
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thanks for all of the help guys i will see what i can do about the model number...i just want to listen to it to see if it works.....
MANY THANKS TO ALL
BOBBY |
Diggerodell
| | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 6:31 pm: |
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radio is vhf fm tk 705d must be kinda old cant find it on the kenwood site....
BOBBY |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 6:48 pm: |
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Here's some information on the 705, looks like a pretty good little radio.
http://hometown.aol.com/kc7gf/
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Diggerodell
| | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 7:56 pm: |
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thank you my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bobby |
Rex Alan French
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 9:57 am: |
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HI! My name is Rex A. French. I have a friend that has a commex 3300. He is having trouble getting the swr down. It's a real fancy and expensive mobile unit. I e-mailed the webmaster last night and he told me what the possibilities were that was causing the high swr reading. He had a wilson 1000 with a number of antenea lengths but, nothing seemed to work the swr down.
He's got am,fm,ssb, and a number of frequencies to choose from. Does he have to have a special antenea or is there something wrong with that one? |
