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Bat Labs is great. Lots of people giving lots of answers. What do you do if your radio is a Kenwood or ICOM? Are there any support communities out there which handle anything other than Mother M?

I've got a TK-8180 that generates a little static out it's own speaker when it goes into scan; at the same time it causes blips on the RSSI and receive abilities go to trash. Only in scan, though. Almost sounds like processor noise so I may try the clock shift. Never used to do it...

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What firmware rev do you have in the 8180?

Jim

Whatever was the latest about 4 months ago when I downloaded it from Kenwood. I can check tomorrow when I get to work if there's newer. The problem didn't start until just recently.

What 'cha thinkin'?

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You should have the new f/w then, IIRc it is 1.21, or.22.

Try this go thru your scan list and delete one channel at a time and try it. It may be a channel that gets some noise from the radio, or another close source that is on one, or two channels. We see this all of the time with units that have CSQ channels. Also if you step up channel to channel there is a chance you might catch the offending channel/channels. I have heard what I believe you are describing on 7180's. We do also maintain a bunch of 8180's also but 99% of them are trunked. Another thing is if you have multi zone scan on try just using one zone only.

How many channels, and zones are you scanning?

If you want to send me your data file I can dump it into a radio and if I can duplicate the problem and not solve it I can get the factory techs involved. Send it to my user ID at yahoo.

Also to answer your original question, there is a web page that deals with non-moto units http://radio.the161.net/.

Jim.

Well, the blinking RSSI never made it switch to any other channel. It always blinked on the selected channel. I did find one that was getting noise and put it back in Scan. The RSSI stopped blinking but there is still a very quiet (have to put an ear to the speaker) crackle/buzz coming out and it's ability to detect an active channel and land on it is still diminished.

I'll check the firmware version in it later today. According to the Kenwood tools site 1.22 is current.

Occasionally I would change it's bandsplit in the programming software from K to K2 and back as needed. To do that in a Motorola you'd have to hack it but this is an option in the radio programming software so I was nervous at first but the radio didn't seem to care.

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