20 Most Recent Kenwood Radio TK 260 360 270 370 2100 3100 Compatible Battery Questions & Answers

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Software TK-2212 is KPG-100 and normal kenwood cable KPG-22 can be used for programming.

Change the EEPROM or contact Kenwood Customer Care, they will send you software by which you can read/write the Radio.

First you connect your radio with pc and try to read your radio, if it read then you rewrite it, if you sucessful, it ok, other wise your radio have a hard ware problem because cpu not communicate the eeprom and ram.

You have a poorly charged or bad battery. It takes more power to transmit than to receive. Usually the first thing you lose with a low, bad or poorly charged battery is transmit. Try a known good battery in the radio. This should solve the problem. If not, check your battery contacts, as you may have one which is bad or not making good contact. Clean your contacts with a pencil eraser to assure good connection with the charger. Best regards.

not sure does this help? http://images.kenwood.eu/files/prod/855/5/R-K1_EN.pdf

You may find it on the Kenwood commercial radio web site, but you'll need a programming cable also.

Re program radio but you cant do a backup I don't think Re: Jeff

The battery is too low to support TX. Probably need to replace it.

Field Programming procedure for the Kenwood TK-270 or TK-370 handhelds. Press and hold (light) & (dial) while turning on radio. Hold until (SEL) appears on the display. Pressing (SCN) allows you to program the following 1. Monitor Key Off = off 1 = Monitor momentary 2 = Monitor Lock 3 = Squelch off momentary 2. Scan Key Off = off Co = carrier operate To = Time operate 3. Dial Key Off = off On = enable 4. TA key TA = talkaround RV = Reverse Off 5. Lo Key On Off 6. Priority None 1 = fixed 2 = selected 7. Fixed Priority Channel Turn selector to channel 8. Look back time A Turn selector to time in seconds 9. Look back time B Turn selector to time in seconds 10. Revert Channel 1 = Selected 2 = Last Call 3 = Last used 4 = Selected + Talkback 5 = Priority 6 = Priority + Talkback 11. Tx Dwell time Turn selector to time in seconds 12. Drop out delay Turn selector to time in seconds 13. Time out timer Turn selector to time in seconds 14. Tot Pre-alert Turn selector to time in seconds 15. Tot Rekey time Turn selector to time in seconds 16. Tot reset time Turn selector to time in seconds 17. Squelch Level Turn selector to Squelch 18. Beep tone On Off 19. Signalling And Or 20. Battery Save On Off 21. Selectable QT On Off 22. Clr to transpond On Off 23. Del/ Add On Off Pressing (Dial) allows programming of: DTMF 24. digit time Turn selector to time in milliseconds 25. inter digit time Turn selector to time in milliseconds 26. First digit time Turn selector to time in milliseconds 27. Rise time Turn selector to time in milliseconds 28. Rise time with QT Turn selector to time in milliseconds 29. PTT ID Off 1 = connect 2 = disconnect 3 = Both 30. Dial ID On Off 31. Connect ID 32. Disconnect ID 33. # of DTMF keys on Keypad 12 16 34. DTMF hold time On Off 35. Store & send On Off 36. D key assignment Turn selector to D or time in seconds for pause 37. Dtmf Signaling Off 1 = code squelch 2 = Selective Call 38. Intermediate Code OFF A B C D E F 39. Group Code OFF A B C D E F 40. Auto Reset time Turn selector for time in Seconds 41. Call Alert/ Transpond Off 1 = 2 = 3 4 5 42. Transpond On Off Pressing (TA) will allow you to program Frequencies Use selector to choose channel Press PTT Enter Rx frequency using: - the Selector Knob to change kHz; - the Selector Knob + (light) to change MHz. If no channel is Shown press the (LO) button. Press PTT Enter Rx CTCSS code Press PTT Enter Tx Frequency as above Press PTT Enter Tx CTCSS code Press PTT 1. Option Signal Off 1 = DTMF 2 = 2-Tone 2. PTT ID On Off 3. Add/ Del 4. Busy Tx 5. Clock frequency shift 6. Power Hi Low Repeat for the other channels (you've got a 32 channel radio, so it may take a while...) <end>

You'll need a programming cable and the software for the radio.

If you buy a programming cable and the software, yes. Unless you're a certified technician (or you're an Amateur using it in the Ham Bands) programming a commercial radio is illegal.

Hi Mike,Yes it's a pain in the rear when you have this happen, I have a Vertex that had the same issue, this is how I solved it.Get yourself a piece of wide elastic, enough to go around the radio and battery to hold it tightly, A wide rubber band could be used, but they wear out too quickly for my liking, another item to get is the leather portable radio holster, for when you're mobile and an extension mic, this is the best solution for mobile radios when your out doors anyway.I hope this has been useful to you. The problem is the locking mechanism between battery and radio.Cheers,Peter

Hi,You've probably answered your own query in part there.To help you get back into buisness, do the following:Join yahoo group specific to your radio Make/Model, the people there specialise in just that model, so give them as much info as you can think of, the more info you give, the quicker a solution to your problem, and don't be shy about asking as many questions as you feel necessary, the more info the get the more answers you get. All this is FREE, and you can download manuals, schematics and other goodies for your radio.I hope I've helped to get a solution.Best regards,Peter

If you have not resolved this problem yet. I fear that your radios may have a CPU problem. in any case here is a URL that explains how to program your radios. http://www.repeater-builder.com/kenwood/field-programming-tk-x70.html

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The software is only availible from Kenwood. the only way to get it is to purchase the registration key from them for that software. Sorry, I program radios everyday and even the company I work for has to purchase the Registration keys.

I am having the same problem. Does anyone out there have a solution?

have you tried "rebooting" it. basically taking out the battery for about 15 minutes to a half hour. ?